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Diacotomous keys are very fun, and it's basically a way of playing 20 questions, but with each question you can identify something.
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So dichotomous key, every question you ask has two possible answers, and one of the answers will isolate a certain object, whereas the other answer will be for all of the other objects, and i'll give you an example here.
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So say i wanted to make a dichotomous key of all of the, green things in the room.
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I want to be able to classify all of these different objects.
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And so i might ask the question first, is it made of paper? if the answer is yes, then that green thing would be the book.
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If the answer is no, then you keep going and ask the next question.
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And then i might ask, is the green thing alive? if the answer is the answer, answer is yes, then it's the plant in the room.
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But if the answer is no, then it's going to be the water bottle.
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So that's a small example of a dichotomous key where you ask a question that has two possible answers.
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One of the answers will isolate a specific thing, whereas the other one, is true for all of the other things and lets you move on to ask more specific questions.
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So in this way, we can classify and differentiate between all of the objects on our list.
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And for this question, we're going to be doing that for these four fish, for banner fish, shark, trout, and goldfish...