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How many categories are there in hierarchy classification?


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Hierarchy classification:

  1. Taxonomic hierarchy is the process of arranging various organisms in a sequence of taxonomic categories either in a decreasing or an increasing order from kingdom to species or vice versa.
  2. Hierarchy was first given by Linnaeus.
  3. There are seven categories in the hierarchy classification.
  4. This includes kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.

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