What is the difference between taxon and taxonomy?

Answer 1

taxonomy is a classification of animals and taxon is any grouping of organisms at any level of classification.

Answer 2

Taxon refers to a group of organisms sharing a common ancestor, such as a species or family, while taxonomy is the scientific study of classifying and naming organisms based on their evolutionary relationships. Taxonomy involves organizing taxa into a hierarchical system to reflect their evolutionary history.

Answer 3

Taxonomy:

The classification of organisms in an ordered SYSTEM that indicates natural relationships.

Classification:

The systematic GROUPING of organisms according to the structural and evolutionary relationships among them.

*Difference between Taxonomy and Classification:

Classification is the WAY TO ORGANIZE...

Taxonomy is the NAME OF ORGANIZATION that Classifies species (organizes)...

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Mirza Muhammad Arslan Azam

Answer 4

Plant taxonomy is d classification of taxa ( unit of classification) in a system dat expressed their relationship while sysrematic is a comparative of a systematic unit of the fact finding their field in taxonomy, classification, nomenclature n morphology or phytography

Answer 5

Taxonomy or classification is the grouping of organisms according to their morphological similarities (or at least this is what taxonomy was in the time of Karl von Linne).

Karl von Linne (known these days as Carolus Linnaeus) invented the taxonomic system used today, grouping organisms together according to similarities ("Plants" versus "Animals" versus "Vermes" for example). He invented the binomial system giving a higher group of organisms the term "genus" and a lower (fundamental) group "species". The genus is always capitalised in writing and the species is not. An example of a binomial name is Orcinus orca, the scientific name of the Killer Whale.

Since Linnaeus, the taxonomic hierarchy developed into what we know today. Similar species are grouped into a genus. Similar genera are grouped into a family, similar families are grouped into an order. Similar orders are grouped into a class, similar classes are grouped into a phylum. The full hierarchy has intermediates too. And here it is, in a far fuller form:

Subspecies, Species, Superspecies, Subgenus, Genus, Tribe, Subfamily, Family, Superfamily, Infraorder, Suborder, Order, Superorder, Cohort, Supercohort, Infraclass, Subclass, Class, Superclass, Subphylum, Phylum, Superphylum, Subkingdom, Kingdom, Domain, Empire.

The empire in this scheme features all of life on Earth. The domains differentiate between basic cell types (nucleated or not, for example). The kingdoms are plants, animals, bacteria, archaebacteria, fungi and perhaps about 60 varieties of 'protist'.

These days, classification and taxonomy name and organise organisms not simply according to morphological similarity but according to evolutionary relationships. A taxon must be monophyletic to be a good grouping. Groupings are thus based on shared derived characters which are indicative of monophyly. (A monophyly is a group where all members are derived from a single common ancestor). DNA is sequenced to confirm evolutionary relationships and classifications are based on evolutionary trees known as phylogenies.

Darwin was able to predict that humans, chimpanzees and gorillas are all derived together from a common ancestor. This relationship scheme is still recognised today. However, the advent of DNA analysis has overturned some previous classifications. Whales are thought to be related to hippopotamuses and not carnivores these days. Thus, whales are now classified along with their fellow cetaceans in the same order as hippopotamuses and pigs and antelope, a scheme not dreamed of previously. Classification is evolving still!!

Answer 6

taxon is singular and taxonomy is plural