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What is the highest taxonomic category?


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Taxonomy category:

  1. Based on characteristics, all living organisms can be classified into different taxa. This process of classification is taxonomy.
  2. Some taxonomic categories are universally categorized in the classification of plants, protists, and animals.
  3. They are in this particular order – Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus,, species and subspecies.
  4. There are five Kingdom classifications.
  5. The kingdoms are Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.
  6. The highest taxonomic category is Kingdom.


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