Monday, May 5, 2008

Dichotomous Key

What is a dichotomous key? What is it used for and why is it important?

15 comments:

..::..Fair..::.. said...

Dichotomous key is a key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters. It is used to determine between organisms between the characteristics. It helps scientists know the difference between organisms. It is easier for the scientists.

matt said...

It is a paired statmenet that can be used to identify organisms. It has numbers that have characteristics by them to identify the animal. It is important because if you don't know what an animal is then you can look up a species and see if it relates to that species. They you can pair it with that species and produce another animal.

chris said...

A dichotomous key is a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world, such as trees, wildflowers, and fish. It has numbers that have characteristics by them to identify the animal. They you can pair it with that species and produce another animal.

Tiffany said...

it is a key for the identification of creatures and plants. it is based on a series of choices between different things. It is used to determine between creatures by the characteristics.

Tristen said...

Dichotomuous key is, a paired statement that can be used to identify organisms. It has numbers that the characteristics identify the animal. It is used to determine the difference between organisms and their characteristics.

Bierman said...

A dichotomous key is a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world, such as trees, wildflowers, mammals, reptiles, rocks, and fish. Its used to find the differences between characteristics. This makes a lot easier.

sweet said...

Identification of plants and animals in taxonomy is frequently aided by using a dichotomous key, a usually written device constructed from a series of highly organized statements arranged into couplets.

bean said...

it is a key for identifing organisms based on series of choices between alternative characters.scientists like it because it makes life easier. it lets them know the difference between organisms.

Kayla said...

It's a paired statmenet that can be used to identify organisms. It has numbers that have characteristics by them to identify the animal. It's important because if you don't know what an animal is then you cant look up a species and see if it relates to another species.

Silly Willy said...

Dichotomous key is a key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters. They use it to figure out what animals are are. Its important for the scientists to help them figure out where animals belong.

Matt G said...

it is for the identification of organisms. it use a series of choices between alternative characters. it helps a lote to find names to anythig.

chelsea said...

It is a key for identification of organisms based on the series of choices between the alternative characters. This helps scientists know the difference between the organisms. This is important because if tells you what species is related to what.

rach said...

dichotomous key is a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of things in the worl such as: trees wildflowers mammals reptiles rocks and fish. the keys help scientists know the diff. btwn organisms.

Kendall said...

A dichotomous key is a key used in the identification of organisms. It chooses from a series of choices between different characters. It is important because it helps scientists tell the difference between organisms, and it makes it easier for them.

Evan said...

You can use Creately dichotomous key maker to create dichotomous keys online. There are templates and examples to get started as well.