Taxonomic rank

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In biological taxonomy, a taxonomic rank denotes the level that a group of organisms—either taxon or clade—occupies in a hierarchical system of classification, which is usually but not necessarily based on evolutionary relationships between those organisms.

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