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Can an organsim belong to the same family but different classes?
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∙ 10y ago
No. Family is a few ranks below Class - in Classes, there are Orders, and in Orders there are Families. So animals of different Classes can never be in the same Family.
Wiki User
∙ 10y ago
No, organisms in the same family belong to the same class. Family is a taxonomic rank below order and above genus, while class is a higher taxonomic rank than family. Organisms within the same family share more recent common ancestry than those in different families.
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