Question

Differentiate the terms.

a) Species and Taxon

b) Systematics and Taxonomy

Answer 1

a) Species	Taxon
1. Species includes all the organisms that are similar to breed and produce fertile offspring.	A taxon is the representation of any level of the taxonomic category
2. It is always monophyletic.	It can be of monophyletic or polyphyletic generation.
3. It is one taxonomic category.	It is a taxonomic unit.
4. In Panthera tigris, tigris is a species.	Class Mammalia is a taxon that includes all mammalian species. Species is a taxon, Panthera tigris being the tiger.

b) Systematics	Taxonomy
1. It is the study of organisms on the basis of their comparative and evolutionary relationships.	It is the study of organisms on the basis of their characteristics.
2. It includes anatomy, ecology, physiology, biochemistry.	It includes morphological features of organisms.