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Animals, dogs and mammals?
A)Taxa at different levels
B)Taxonomic hierarchy
C)Taxa at equivalent level
D)Categories at equivalent level

Answer
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Hint: Animals are termed to be as the members of the Animal Kingdom. Dogs are carnivore mammals that are flesh eating animals. Mammals are a major member of the vertebrate class Mammalia.

Complete answer:
Linnaeus' hierarchical system of classification is composed of seven levels that are termed as taxa.
They are arranged from largest to smallest, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. The Kingdom is the largest and most necessary and essential of the taxonomic categories.
Animals, dogs, mammals - these three are observed to be very similar, but yet they are different.

1)When we say 'animal we meant to refer to the members of the animal kingdom (Kingdom Animalia).
2)Dogs are also animals, so they can be termed as mammals.
3)When we say mammals, we mean the Vertebrate class 'Mammalia'.
4)Dogs are also kind of carnivorous mammals (Order Carnivora).
5)So, we should find an answer to the question: what are these 'classes', 'kingdom', and 'order'.
6)These are basic terms that are needed in classification or6. These are the most basic and lower terms used in classification or more appropriately systematics.
7)Each category of classification is termed to be as a taxon and its plural form is termed as taxa.
8)It is just an observation and term of a rank.
9)So, Animals, dogs, and mammals show different levels of taxa.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A)

Note: When there are so many varied species out there, an organisation should be there to identify them specifically. That is why taxonomy, systematics, classification -all these came into the observation but they are different subjects with different definitions.