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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=biology">biology</a>, a <b>type</b> is a particular <a href="page.php?w=Biological_specimen">specimen</a> (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an <a href="page.php?w=organism">organism</a> to which the <a href="page.php?w=scientific_name">scientific name</a> of that organism is formally associated. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes the defining features of that particular <a href="page.php?w=taxon">taxon</a>. In older usage (pre-1900 in botany), a type was a taxon rather than</p><p>
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