Which of the following lists of groupings or taxons is in descending order, from most inclusive to least inclusive? Some lists may be missing some of the intermediate taxons.

a) family, order, class, species, genus
b) class, family, species, order, phylum
c) domain, phylum, family, class, species
d) phylum, class, order, genus, family
e) kingdom, class, family, genus, species


Ans: e) kingdom, class, family, genus, species

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