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Differentiate between rank and taxon

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A taxon is not an organism, but it’s rather any grouping one can distinguish. It is a taxonomic group or unit. A group of organisms that belongs together as per taxonomists. A taxon differs in sizes an example of big one is the beetles and a small one would be the giraffes.

Rank is simply the level of a taxon in the taxonomic heirarchy .

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