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Taxon is a group of real organisms contained in any category. A natural taxon refers to a group of similar, genetically related individuals having certain characters distinct from those of other group.
For example, all the insects form a taxon. So do birds, reptile, algae, grasses, dog, lion and man. Some examples of taxa at different hierarchial levels are:
(a) The taxon of bacteria is monera and their category is kingdom.
(b) The sponges form the taxon porifera and their category is phylum.
(c) Rosa is a taxon and genus is its category.