Editing Identification key (section)

=== Terminology ===
Identification keys are known historically and contemporarily by many names, including analytical key, entomological key, artificial key,<ref name=":2" /> diagnostic key,<ref name=":3" /> determinator,<ref name=":0" /> and taxonomic key<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bohemier |first=Kayleigh |title=Yale University Library Research Guides: Taxonomic Keys: Home |url=https://guides.library.yale.edu/keys |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=guides.library.yale.edu |language=en}}</ref>

Within the biological literature, identification keys are referred to simply as ''keys''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=A dictionary of biology |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-920462-5 |edition=6th |series=Oxford paperback reference |location=Oxford |pages=356 |chapter=key (identification key)}}</ref> They are also commonly referred to in general as dichotomous keys,<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Lawrence |first=George H. M. |title=Taxonomy of Vascular Plants |date=1951 |publisher=The Macmillan Company |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=225–8}}</ref> though this term strictly refers to a specific type of identification key (see [[#Types of keys|Types of keys]]).