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  2. Category:Individual organisms - Wikipedia

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    This is a category for famous or otherwise notable individual non-human organisms. For famous or notable humans, see Category:People . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Famous organisms .

  3. Taxonomy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Partial classifications exist for many individual groups of organisms and are revised and replaced as new information becomes available; however, comprehensive, published treatments of most or all life are rarer; recent examples are that of Adl et al., 2012 and 2019, [81] [82] which covers eukaryotes only with an emphasis on protists, and ...

  4. Category:Organisms - Wikipedia

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    Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. ... Individual organisms (6 C) * Lists of biota (7 C, 15 P) > Space-flown life (3 C, 41 P) A.

  5. Species - Wikipedia

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    The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. A genus contains one or more species. Minor intermediate ranks are not shown. A species (pl.: species) is a population of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. [1]

  6. Domain (biology) - Wikipedia

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    In biological taxonomy, a domain (/ d ə ˈ m eɪ n / or / d oʊ ˈ m eɪ n /) (Latin: regio [1]), also dominion, [2] superkingdom, realm, or empire, is the highest taxonomic rank of all organisms taken together. It was introduced in the three-domain system of taxonomy devised by Carl Woese, Otto Kandler and Mark Wheelis in 1990. [1]

  7. Taxon - Wikipedia

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    In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy; pl.: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking , especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established.

  8. Genus - Wikipedia

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    The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks.A family contains one or more genera. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. Genus (/ ˈ dʒ iː n ə s /; pl.: genera / ˈ dʒ ɛ n ər ə /) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. [1]

  9. Animal - Wikipedia

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    Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia (/ ˌ æ n ɪ ˈ m eɪ l i ə / [4]). With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.