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23 January, 22:25

What do you think are some limitations of dichotomous keys?

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  1. 23 January, 22:29
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    Limitations of dichotomous keys:

    1. It is only useful when the organism that is being identified was or is a part of organisms that are part of the key. An organisms is usually misidentified if it does not belong to the key.

    2. It's a complex mechanism of organism identification and may leads to chain of worng interpretations.

    3. The characteristics which are devised to identify an organism might not be a distinct feature of the species already exiting in the dichotomous key.

    4. Dependency on physical characteristics, does not take into account genetic characteristics.
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