Taxonomic Rank

A Taxonomic Rank is the level that an organism is placed within the hierarchical level arrangement of life forms.  At the top of the chart is the category that has the most general qualities.  For example, creatures in the classification of domain would be animals.  Another domain category would be plants.  The chart descends with more specific criteria added in each subsequent designation.  Therefore, there would be thousands of species under genus and hundreds of genus within a family, etc.

T a x o n o m i c   R a n k   C h a r t
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Domain Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya Kingdom
Plants, Fungi, Bacteria, Animals		 Phylum / Division
- Body Plan -  Quadrupeds, Bi-peds, Fish, Mollusks, Birds, Cordata		 Class
 - Common Traits - Vertebrates, Invertebrates,  Arachnids, Mammals,		 Order
Carnivore, Herbivore, Primates,		 Family
Apes, Lemurs, hominidae		 Genus  Feline, Canine, Homo Species
Horse, Wolf, Elephant, Tuna, Eagle, Homo Sapien

 

 

 

 
 
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