Question

What is the importance of identification in biology

Answer 1

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Identification in Biology is the process of assigning a pre-existing taxon name to an individual organism. Identification of organisms to individual scientific names (or codes) may be based on individualistic natural body features. The more common form of identification is the identification of organisms to common names (eg lion) or scientific names (eg Panthera leo). By necessity this is based on inherited features (characters) of the sexual organisms, the inheritance forming the basis of defining a class. The features may, eg., be morphological, anatomical, physiological, behavioral, or molecular.
Identification methods may be manual or computerized and may involve using identification keys comparing the organism with specimens from natural history collections, or taking images to be analyzed.
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