The Living World Question 36
36. Sequence of taxonomic categories is
(a) Class - Phylum - Tribe - Order - Family - Genus - Species
(b) Division - Class - Family - Tribe - Order - Genus - Species
(c) Division-Class - Order - Family - Tribe - Genus - Species
(d) Phylum - Order - Class - Tribe - Family - Genus - Species
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Answer : c
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(c) With the discovery of more and more organisms, it sometimes becomes, difficult to adjust an organism to the traditional categories. Therefore to make taxonomic position of a species more precise, the various obligate categories in hierarchial classification are explained below.
Division $\rightarrow$ Class $\rightarrow$ Order $\rightarrow$ Family $\rightarrow$ Tribe $\rightarrow$ Genus $\rightarrow$ Species
