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Taxon
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Grouping of biological populations
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Instances
211
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Frog
Order of amphibians
Fish
Gill-bearing non-tetrapod aquatic vertebrates
American black bear
Species of bear
Bird
Warm-blooded vertebrates with wings and feathers
Hedgehog
Subfamily of small spiny mammals
Guinea pig
Domesticated rodent from South America
Capybara
Largest species of rodents
Beetle
Order of insects
Water buffalo
Species of large bovid
Honey bee
Colonial flying insect of genus Apis
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fossil taxon
taxon described on the basis of fossil material
Monotypic taxon
Taxonomic group with only one subordinate taxon
Paraphyletic group
in cladistic analysis, an ancestral species and some, but not all, of its descendants
Clade
Group of a common ancestor and all descendants
Evolutionary grade
Non-monophyletic grouping of organisms united by morphological or physiological characteristics
Cultivar
Plant or grouping of plants selected for desirable characteristics
Cell line
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In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy; pl.: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is very...

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