Dichotomous Keys February 12th
Shape of the day 5 minutes Lecture 10 – 15 minutes work on dichotomous key 10 – 15 minutes create a dichotomous key 15 minutes The five kingdoms
Learning objective Create and use a dichotomous key Compare and contrast the five kingdoms
What is a dichotomous key? A step-by-step key used to identify an organism, usually a plant or animal. Each step presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters with a direction to another stage in the key until the species is identified
Should you eat it?
Northern Flicker Gilded Flicker Red breasted sapsucker Red naped Sapsucker Williamson’s Sapsucker