The organisms are classified in the hierarchical system on the basis of the different ranks. The seven essential ranks of taxa in the descending order are the kingdom, division/phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. The number of shared characters decrease as one moves towards the higher ranks. The family is the rank which is placed between the order and genus.
Thus, the correct answer is option A.
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