Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305389892
Author: Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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The taxonomic Hierarchy was proposed by “Carl Linnaeus” to name and classify organisms into a series of formal categories. It includes different ranks such as domain, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.

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