Taxonomic hierarchy refers to

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step-wise arrangement of all categories for classification of plants and animals.
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a group of senior taxonomists who decide the nomenclature of plants and animals.
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a list of botanists or zoologists who have worked on taxonomy of a species or group.
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classification of a species based on fossil record.

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step-wise arrangement of all categories for classification of plants and animals.

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Taxonomical hierarchy (introduced by Linneaus) is arrangement of various taxonomic levels in the descending order, starting from kingdom upto species. The hierarchy indicates the various levels of kinship. The number of similar characters of categories decreases from lowest rank to highest rank i.e., from species to kingdom. Thre are $7$ obligate categories which constitute taxonomical hierarchy. In addition to these obligate categories there are some optional categories are as follows. e.g., Tribe, subclass, superclass, etc.

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