1. Create a dichotomous key, which will identify the 5 items pictured below usin
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1. Create a dichotomous key, which will identify the 5 items pictured below using only yes/no questions. Include answers to your questions. For example, if you had a metal paper clip, a metal spoon and a pair of plastic sunglasses, your first question could be: "Is this item made of metal? If the answer is yes, go to question 2; if the answer is no, it is a pair of plastic sunglasses." See Plankton-3 for a more detailed explanation Orange-handled scissors Pink, plastic ruler Black, plastic key Black, metal stapler pencil Dichotomous Key (questions and answers) 1) 2) 3) 4) 2) If you are looking at an organism in the Nikon compound microscope through the 10X lens and the organism measure5% the length of the field size, approximately how long is the organism in millimeters and in microns? See Page Plankton-7 for instructions on how to calculate size.Explanation / Answer
1. First we can take pink plastic ruler, orange handled scissors and black metal stapler.
Question: Is these items are made up of plastics?
Yes except black metal stapler other two items are made up of plastics.
2. Second we 'll take pencil, black metal stapler and black key.
So the question can be like. Is these items are made up of black colour?
Answer: yes except pencil other two items are made up of black colour.
3. Third we 'll take pink plastic ruler, black key and pencil.
So the question can be like is these items are made up of black colour?
Answer: no each items belongs to different colours
4. Fourth we can take black metal stapler, orange handled scissors and black key.
So here the question can be like is these items are made up of metals?
Answer: no each belong to different category.
From this we can understand that dichotomous key is a tool to identify some thing whether it belong to same family or some other. In related to biology we can say that it is a tool to identify whether it belong to same or different ( species or genus or a family)
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