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There are seven main levels of biological classification for organisms from broadest to most specific: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Botanists sometimes further divide species into varieties. The fossil record provides clues about evolutionary relationships but is incomplete, so taxonomists consider other evidence to confirm information from the fossil record. Traditionally, some textbooks used a six-kingdom system of classification.

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There are seven main levels of biological classification for organisms from broadest to most specific: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Botanists sometimes further divide species into varieties. The fossil record provides clues about evolutionary relationships but is incomplete, so taxonomists consider other evidence to confirm information from the fossil record. Traditionally, some textbooks used a six-kingdom system of classification.

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There are seven major levels of classification: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus,

and Species.

Additional Levels of Organization

 Botanist sometimes split species into subsets known as VARIETIES.

 Peaches and nectarines are a different variety of the peach tree, Prunus persica

The Fossil Record

 The fossil record often provides clues to evolutionary relationships

 It can not be read like a story book because some fossil records are incomplete

 Systematic taxonomists consider other evidence to confirm information contained within the
fossil record with other lines of evidence, like…

Traditionally, some textbooks from the United States and Canada used a system of six
kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaebacteria, and
Bacteria/Eubacteria)

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