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A taxonomic group comprised of members of similar kingdoms is called

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Carl Woose (1990) divided all six kingdoms of classification into 3 domains viz. Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya on the basis of sequence of 16 S r-RNA genes. The domains are category above the kingdom level.
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