Living Beings / Classification

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Life → Domain → Kingdom → Phylum → Class → Order → Family → Genus → Species. Explore the principal ranks; intermediate clades remain in Advanced classification.

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NCBI Taxonomy · November 5, 2026. Missing ranks leave empty columns. Animalia is the recorded synonym of Metazoa; green plants use Viridiplantae. Full source ancestry is available in Advanced classification.

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Arabidopsis

Genus

  1. LifeLife
  2. DomainEukaryota
  3. KingdomViridiplantae
  4. PhylumStreptophyta
  5. ClassMagnoliopsida
  6. OrderBrassicales
  7. FamilyBrassicaceae
  8. GenusArabidopsis
Advanced classification

Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.

  1. cellular organisms cellular root
  2. Eukaryota domain
  3. Viridiplantae kingdom
  4. Streptophyta phylum
  5. Streptophytina subphylum
  6. Embryophyta clade
  7. Tracheophyta clade
  8. Euphyllophyta clade
  9. Spermatophyta clade
  10. Magnoliopsida class
  11. Mesangiospermae clade
  12. eudicotyledons clade
  13. Gunneridae clade
  14. Pentapetalae clade
  15. rosids clade
  16. malvids clade
  17. Brassicales order
  18. Brassicaceae family
  19. Camelineae tribe
  20. Arabidopsis genus

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