Question

Taxon is a unit in classification which may represent any level of grouping of organisms based on certain common characteristics like maize, roses, grasses, conifers, dicots, seed plants, etc. The term was introduced for the first time by icbn during 1956.

Answer 1

Botanical nomenclature is independent of zoological and bacteriological nomenclature.The code applies equally to names of taxonomic grops treated as plants whether are not these groups were originally so treated