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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 (e. g.),〔D.Burns, P.Harrison and P. Baverstock. (Photographic identification of individual humpback whales (''Megaptera novaeangliae'') on their southern migration past Ballina, NSW, with comparisons to other humpback whale databases from eastern Australia )〕 experimentally created individual markers (e.g., color dot patterns), or natural individualistic molecular markers (similar to those used in maternity or paternity identification tests). Individual identification is used, e.g., in ecology, wildlife management or conservation biology. The more common form of identification is the identification of organisms to common names (e. g., "lion") or scientific name (e. g., "''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, e. g., be morphological, anatomical, physiological, behavioral, or molecular. The term "determination" may occasionally be used as a synonym for identification (e. g.), or as in "determination slips".〔(The herbarium specimen )〕 Identification methods may be manual or computerized and may involve using identification keys, browsing through fields guide that contain (often illustrated) species accounts, or comparing the organism with specimens from natural history collections. == See also == * DNA barcoding * DNA profiling * Molecular marker * Taxonomy 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Identification (biology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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