Describe the hierarchy of taxonomic categories.

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Hierarchy is the sequence of arrangement of taxanomic categories in descending order from higher to lower during classification of organisms.
Hierarchy was first given by Linnaeus.
There are seven categories.
This includes kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species.
Eg :- Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Chordata
Class - Mammalia
Order - Primata
Family - Hominidae
Genus - Homo
Scientific name :- Homo sapiens

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