- Look up
taxa, taxon, taxonomy, or
taxonomic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Taxa or
Taxon may
refer to:
Taxa as the
plural of taxon, a
concept in biological...
- In biology, a
taxon (back-formation from taxonomy; pl.:
taxa) is a
group of one or more po****tions of an
organism or
organisms seen by
taxonomists to...
-
Taxa is a
Danish television drama in 56 episodes,
written by Stig
Thorsboe and
produced by
Rumle Hammerich for the
Danish Broadcasting Corporation. The...
- In the
history of the
Linnaean classification system, many
taxa (e.g. species, genera, families, and
higher taxonomic ranks) have
become defunct or obsolete...
- generally, recent) organisms. It is the
study of
extant taxa (singular:
extant taxon):
taxa (such as species,
genera and families) with
members still...
-
biological organisms based on
shared characteristics.
Organisms are
grouped into
taxa (singular: taxon) and
these groups are
given a
taxonomic rank;
groups of...
-
illustrated by a cladogram:
Taxon A and
taxon B are
sister groups to each other.
Taxa A and B,
together with any
other extant or
extinct descendants of
their most...
- In paleontology, an
Elvis taxon (plural
Elvis taxa) is a
taxon that has been
misidentified as
having re-emerged in the
fossil record after a
period of...
- In paleontology, a
Lazarus taxon (plural
taxa) is a
taxon that
disappears for one or more
periods from the
fossil record, only to
appear again later. Likewise...
- or more
other taxa.
Wastebasket taxa are by
definition either paraphyletic or polyphyletic, and are
therefore not
considered valid taxa under strict cladistic...
