Taxon

taxonomy
scientific classification of an organism as a whole
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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Taxonomy and mental classification
Some have argued that the human mind naturally organizes its knowledge of the world into such systems. This view is often based on the epistemology of Immanuel Kant.
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Taxonomy: Classifying Life
At least 1.7 million species of living organisms have been discovered, and the list grows longer every year (especially of insects in the tropical rain forest). How are they to be classified?
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Such taxonomies as those analyzed by Durkheim and Lvi-Strauss are sometimes called folk taxonomies to distinguish them from scientific taxonomies that claim to be disembedded from social relations and thus objective and universal.
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Taxonomy, the practice of classifying biodiversity, has a venerable history.
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Taxonomy is that branch of biology dealing with the identification and naming of organisms. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle apparently began the discussion on taxonomy.
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Taxonomic distribution of GSDB base pairs. This chart illustrates the taxonomic distribution of the 1,076,481,102 base pairs in the Genome Sequence DataBase.
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Taxon
General term for a taxonomic group, i.e. species, genus, family.
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taxon pl. taxa
[Gk. taxis, arrange, put in order]
The named taxonomic unit at any given level.
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Taxonomy
The classification of organisms.
Telomere
The terminal part of a linear chromosome. Replication of the ends of linear DNA molecules requires specialized enzymes or structures.
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taxonomy The description of species and the classification of organisms into groups that reflect evolutionary relationships. See phylogenetic systematics, evolutionary systematics, and numerical taxonomy. Also systematics.
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Taxonomy
Cetaceans are divided into two suborders:
The baleen whales are characterized by the baleen, a sieve-like structure in the upper jaw made of keratin, which they use to filter plankton from the water. They are the largest whales.
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Taxon
(pl. taxa) A group of animals classified as a named set, supposedly of the same type.
Tectonics
The process by which the earth's surface has attained its present structure.
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taxon -- n. Any named group of organisms, not necessarily a clade; a taxon may be designated by a Latin name or by a letter, number, or any other symbol; taxa- pl.
taxonomy -- The science of naming and classifying organisms.
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Taxonomic terminology
Clade: in cladistics, a group with a common set of shared derived characteristics persumed inherited from a common ancestor Cladistics: a methodology for reconstructing evolutionary relationships of taxa, both living and extinct, ...
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Taxonomists can use this technique to explore evolutionary relationships. Individuals of the same species, while not identical, will be more similar than individuals of different species.
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Order: A taxonomic subdivision that contains groups of related families or superfamilies; usually ending in -ptera in insects.
Overwinter: A period of rest or hibernation by which insects survive the winter.
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: A major taxon in the Kingdom
Protoctista
(also called
Heterokonta
). They are mostly photosynthetic algae but distinct from the rest of the algae. They have genetic material derived from four different ancestors (purple bacteria,
cyanobacteria ...
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Classify To place a taxon in a classification system.
Cotypes A term no longer recognized in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; synonymous with syntypes.
Emendation An intentional change to a previously proposed name, e.g.
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Evolutionary biology is an inclusive field because it includes scientists from many traditional taxonomically-oriented disciplines.
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In societies that are close to nature, each taxon is given a name. These sorts of folk taxonomies have two features in common. One aspect is the idea of reproductive compatability and continuity within a species.
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Guild. A group of species, possibly unrelated taxonomically, that exploit overlapping resources
Gyre. Major cyclonic surface current systems in the oceans
Halocline. Depth zone within which salinity changes maximally ...
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The rate of divergence between taxonomic groups measurable as amino acid substitutions per million years.
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