{"id":1015,"date":"2018-08-07T03:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T03:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2018-08-07T03:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T03:12:40","slug":"microbiology-dichotomous-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/microiology\/microbiology-dichotomous-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbiology: Dichotomous Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Designing the Dichotomous Key<\/h2>\n<p>When designing a dichotomous key, each level represents 1 step in your logic\/questioning. The &#8220;di&#8221; in the word dichotomous means &#8220;two&#8221;: yes or no. The key is like an upside down tree. At each level, ask a yes\/no question. The &#8220;yes&#8221; should lead the questioning\/logic in one direction\/branch; the &#8220;no&#8221; should lead the questioning\/logic towards another direction.<\/p>\n<p>See this example.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08062018shirleychungmicrokey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1016\" src=\"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08062018shirleychungmicrokey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5100\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08062018shirleychungmicrokey.jpg 5100w, https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08062018shirleychungmicrokey-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08062018shirleychungmicrokey-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08062018shirleychungmicrokey-1024x663.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5100px) 100vw, 5100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing the Dichotomous Key When designing a dichotomous key, each level represents 1 step in your logic\/questioning. The &#8220;di&#8221; in the word dichotomous means &#8220;two&#8221;: yes or no. The key is like an upside down tree. At each level, ask a yes\/no question. The &#8220;yes&#8221; should lead the questioning\/logic in one direction\/branch; the &#8220;no&#8221; should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}