NEET 1992 · Class 11

The Living World

A taxon is

  1. (A)a group of related families
  2. (B)a group of related species
  3. (C)a type of living organisms
  4. (D)a taxonomic group of any ranking

The NCERT line that answers it

Verbatim line

Each category, referred to as a unit of classification, in fact, represents a rank and is commonly termed as **taxon** (pl.: taxa).

Chapter
The Living World
Section
1.2 Taxonomic Categories
Page
5
Words matched
22 of 22

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How this line gives the answer

0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly defines a taxon as representing a rank, which directly supports option D's definition of 'a taxonomic group of any ranking'.

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