NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -taxonomy, in a broad sense the science of classification, but more strictly the classification of living and extinct organisms-i.e., biological classification. The term is derived from the Greek taxis (“arrangement”) and nomos (“law”).

Detailed explanation-2: -A taxon is defined as a collection of one or more populations of organisms. Taxa are the hierarchical divisions of a species from Kingdom to subspecies. Some taxonomic groupings are uniformly classified in the plant, protist, and animal categorization.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are seven main taxonomic ranks: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species.

Detailed explanation-4: -Taxonomy or biological systematics is the science of discovering, describing, classifying and naming organisms [1]. It dates from Aristotle, and thus is the oldest discipline in biology.

Detailed explanation-5: -A taxon is a unit of any kind (genus, family, species, sub-species, etc.) in the hierarchical classifications of living beings. The term is generally used for specific ranks (species) and sub-specific ranks (sub-species).