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Define a taxon. What is meant by taxonomic hierarchy ? Give a flow diagram from the lowest to highest category for a plant and an animal. What happens to the number of individuals and number of shared characters as we go up the taxonomical hierarchy?

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Taxon is a scientific term used for different categories of classification.
Taxonomic hierarchy is position of different taxonomic categories is ascending order, which describes the complets systematic position of any living organism.
Given below is the flow diagram of taxonomic hierarchy
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As we move up in the taxonomic hierarchy the number of shared characters become less.

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