Define a taxon. What is meant by taxonomic hierarchy? Give a flow diagram from the lowest to highest category for a plant and an animal. What happens to the number of individuals and number of shared characters as we go up the taxonomic hierarchy?
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Define a taxon. What is meant by taxonomic hierarchy? Give a flow diagram from the lowest to highest category for a plant and an animal. What happens to the number of individuals and number of shared characters as we go up the taxonomic hierarchy?
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Taxon is a group of organisms representing any level of
category, e.g., sparrow, flatworm, lion, crocodile, etc.
Taxonomic hierarchy is the system of arranging
taxonomic categories in a descending order with species
at the base.
The number of individuals increases as we go up in
taxonomic hierarchy. The number of shared or correlated
characters decreases as we go up in a taxonomical hierarchy.