- 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...
- 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...
-
biological organisms based on
shared characteristics.
Organisms are
grouped into
taxa (singular: taxon), and
these groups are
given a
taxonomic rank;
groups of...
- generally, recent) organisms. It is the
study of
extant taxa (singular:
extant taxon):
taxa (such as species,
genera and families) with
members still...
- or more
other taxa.
Wastebasket taxa are by
definition either paraphyletic or polyphyletic, and are
therefore not
considered valid taxa under strict cladistic...
- 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...
- upper-level
taxa. See also
Comparison of
computer viruses This is an
alphabetical list of
biological virus higher taxa. It
includes those taxa above family...
- cladistics,
having been
coined by
zoologist Willi Hennig to
apply to well-known
taxa like
Reptilia (reptiles),
which is
paraphyletic with
respect to birds. Reptilia...
-
Monophyly (or holophyly) and ****ociated
terms are
restricted to
discussions of
taxa, and are not
necessarily accurate when used to
describe what
Hennig called...
-
index fossils, paleomagnetism, and
other methods, with the
correlation of
taxa with time
being termed biochronology.
Through biochronology, paleontological...
