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Dictionary » T » Taxon TaxonDefinition noun, plural: taxa (taxonomy) (1) Any group or rank in a biological classification into which related organisms are classified. (2) A taxonomic unit in the biological system of classification of organisms, for example: a phylum, order, family, genus, or species.
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Results from our forumWhy would the identical amino acids region of certain specie... primers to the region which is the same in all species and then the primers will give signal from all species. You can use it for detection of one taxon, say you will want to know whether Klebsiella bacteria are present in your sample. Than you will use some primers which amplify some specific ...
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Need help IDing a lizardBased on first picture I was about to guess rather something from Urodela http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id305/ but on the second picture it really looks like some lizard. Maybe from the family Lacertidae http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id354/ ?
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Do Plants exist who have an effect on human fertility?Sure, I bet if you eat Herb-paris ( http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id41928/ ), you won't be fertile anymore :lol: Anyway, why should it be pollen?
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Need help identifying a few plants from Plitvice (Croatia)1. probably something from Brasiccaceae http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id3247/ 2. some anemone http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id38355/ ? 4. probably some buttercup http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id38386/ 10. legumes http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id3273/
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Re: Clade v. Phylum... too. In the first case we speak of plesiomorphy (homology), in the second term apomorphy (analogy) is called for. Cladistics hypothesize that a taxon is a clade and then seek evidence. It often happens that a taxon excludes some of their natural members: this is a paraphylletic group. In other ...
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