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Taxa
Groups or representatives of related organisms that are being compared; they can vary in hierarchical level (such as genus, family, order, and so on).


Read more about this term in the Online Textbook:
Evolution and Phylogenetics: Cladistics and Classification
Human Evolution: What Does DNA Tell Us About Our Position Among the Apes?

Related Terms:
Sister taxa
Clade

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Unrooted Tree and possible rooting points

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Cladogram
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Human Evolution