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circumscription (taxonomy)
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Circumscription (taxonomy)
In biological
taxonomy
,
circumscription
is the definition of a
taxon
, that is, a group of
organisms
. For every taxon, the circumscription is based on a set of attributes that characterise every member of the taxon, and exclude every other organism.
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