In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the smallest number of organisms with a maximum number of characteristics and which group will have the largest number of organism?

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Species is the group with smallest no. of organism whereas kingdom is the group that have the largest no. of organism and includes all organisms that shares a set of distinguishing characters.

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