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  1. Classification in biology, is the arrangement
  2. of organisms into a hierarchy of groups on 
  3. the basis of their similarities in 
  4. biochemical, anatomical, or physiological 
  5. characters. The basic grouping is a species,
  6. several of which may constitute a genus,
  7. which in turn are grouped into families, 
  8. and so on up through orders, classes, phyla
  9. (in plants, sometimes called divisions),
  10. to kingdoms.
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  12. Subject by: Simone Bennett
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