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Wiggles
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22 August, 10:59
What are some limitations of a dichotomous key?
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Meghan Hurst
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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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