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...
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Taxa is a Danish television drama in 56 episodes, written by Stig Thorsboe and produced by Rumle Hammerich for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. The...
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Neontology (redirect from Extant taxa)
generally, recent) organisms. It is the study of extant taxa (singular: extant taxon): taxa (such as species, genera and families) with members still...
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Sister group (redirect from Sister taxa)
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...
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Wastebasket taxon (redirect from Wastebin taxa)
or more other taxa. Wastebasket taxa are by definition either paraphyletic or polyphyletic, and are therefore not considered valid taxa under strict cladistic...
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Taxonomy (biology) (redirect from Biological taxa)
biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of...
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Lazarus taxon (redirect from Lazarus Taxa)
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...
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Elvis taxon (redirect from Elvis Taxa)
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...
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Dark taxon (redirect from Dark taxa)
Dark taxa are chiefly detected by DNA sequencing, and in particular environmental metabarcoding. Dark taxa make up a paraphyletic group, with dark taxa appearing...
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Monophyly (redirect from Monophyletic taxa)
condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria: the grouping contains its own most recent common...
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This is an index of lists of virus taxa. List of higher virus taxa, i.e. all taxa above the rank of family List of virus families and subfamilies List...
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category and assigned the code "LR/lc" or lc. Around 20% of least concern taxa (3261 of 15,636) in the IUCN database still use the code "LR/lc", which indicates...
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Transitional fossil (redirect from Transitional Taxa)
Such early representatives of a group are usually termed "basal taxa" or "sister taxa," depending on whether the fossil organism belongs to the daughter...
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In the history of the Linnaean classification system, many taxa (e.g. species, genera, families, and higher taxonomic ranks) have become defunct or obsolete...
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2018 in arthropod paleontology (section New taxa)
portal This list of fossil arthropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and other fossil arthropods...
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Monotypic taxon (redirect from Monotypic taxa)
species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispecific" or "monospecific" is sometimes...
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Taxadiene (redirect from Taxa-4,11-diene)
Taxadiene (taxa-4,11-diene) is a diterpene. Taxadiene is the first committed intermediate in the synthesis of taxol. Six hydroxylation reactions, and a...
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Zombie taxon (redirect from Zombie taxa)
In paleontology, a zombie taxon (plural zombie taxa) or the zombie effect refers to a fossil that was washed out of sediments and re-deposited in rocks...
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Folk taxonomy (redirect from Folk taxa)
and organize the world around them, typically making generous use of form taxa such as "shrubs", "bugs", "ducks", "fish", "algae", "vegetables", or of economic...
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for different species. In it there are 8 taxa of amphibians, 21 taxa of reptiles, 128 taxa of birds, and 74 taxa of mammals, in total 231. There are also...
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Genus (category Taxa named by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort)
the judgement of taxonomists in either combining taxa described under multiple names, or splitting taxa which may bring available names previously treated...
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than once, independently. They may also arise when existing taxa are changed, as when two taxa are joined to become one, a species is moved to a different...
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Zoo Outreach Organisation (redirect from Journal of Threatened Taxa)
Threatened Taxa; ZOO hosts the journal's website. List of zoo associations "Members". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 2 July 2011. Journal of Threatened Taxa Downloads:...
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used for locomotion. The appendages of most crustaceans and some extinct taxa such as trilobites have another segmented branch known as exopods, but whether...
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Paraphyly (redirect from Paraphyletic taxa)
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...
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Infraspecific name (redirect from Infraspecific taxa)
infraspecies. A "taxon", plural "taxa", is a group of organisms to be given a particular name. The scientific names of botanical taxa are regulated by the International...
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improve its documentation and data quality, and to include peer reviews of taxa on the Red List. The list is also open to petitions against its classifications...
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Relict (biology) (redirect from Relictual taxa)
or climate change such as an ice age. When a relict is representative of taxa found in the fossil record, and yet is still living, such an organism is...
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Feliformia (category Taxa named by Miklós Kretzoi)
including cats (large and small), hyenas, mongooses, viverrids, and related taxa. Feliformia stands in contrast to the other suborder of Carnivora, Caniformia...
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