Question

What is taxa?what is different type of taxa

Answer 1

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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for example: a phylum, order, family, genus, or species.

Answer 2

Taxon/ taxa is a general term for a grouping in a systematic classification of organims whatever its rank.

A natural taxon refers to a group of similar, genetically related individuals havinf certain characters distinct from those of other groups.

For. Eg:- all the insects form a taxon, so do the fishes,frogs, lizards, birds etc.

The degree of relationship and of similarity varies with the rank of the taxon. Individuals of a higher rank, are closely related than those of a lower rank.

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Fellow Brainiac!

I didn't get the meaning of different types of taxa!

If you are asking about major taxonomic categories then these are:-

1-Species
2-Genus
3-Family
4-Order
5-Class
6-Phyla/ Division
7-Kingdom.