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In Biology, a family is a rank of classification. It contains a genus and is contained by an order.

Example: A lion is in the genus Panthera, the family felidae, and the order carnivora. It a big cat, in with all the other cats, in with all the other carnivores.

In Chemistry, a family is a vertical column of the Periodic Table of the Elements. Those elements that have similar characteristics.

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a level of organization that classifies an organism specifically based on its biological lineage. The first level is Domain then Kingdom then Phylum then Class then Order then Family then Genus then Species.

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its a certain group of animal. say we have the cat family. This would include lions,tigers,cats, leopards, cheetahs etc.

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