Dichotomous Key Maker
Quickly and Accurately Identify Species
Visually organize large amounts of information to quickly identify, categorize, and analyze organisms.
- Customizable dichotomous key templates
- Real-time visual collaboration
- PNG, SVG, and PDF export
Over 10 Million people and 1000s of teams already use Creately
How to make a Dichotomous Key Diagram?
Create Your Dichotomous Key Online with Editable Templates
Dichotomous Key for Insects
Dichotomous Key for Plants
Dichotomous Key for Leaves
Bacteria Diachotomous Key Template
Phylogenetic Tree
Phylogenetic Tree of Felines
The African Savanna Food Web
Food Web Diagram
Draw Complex Dichotomous Keys in Minutes
-
Multiple dichotomous key templates to quickly visualize and organize information.
-
Powerful and customizable table to effortlessly create list-styled dichotomous keys.
-
Simple to use drag and drop tools to quickly generate complex dichotomous keys.
-
Automatic drawing with Plus Create to create branching flowcharts instantly.
-
Freehand drawing and highlights to sketch anything you want and analyze organisms.
Centralize All Information
-
Import images, vectors, and more to create informative dichotomous key diagrams.
-
Add docs, attachments, and more to capture details on each organism’s evolution.
-
Infinite canvas to gather research data and to visually arrange them.
Analyze Dichotomous Keys Together
-
Real-time cursors for students, teachers, or researchers to work on a shared canvas.
-
Comment with context, have discussions and follow-ups on the same canvas. Async!
-
Multiple access and role levels to share, review and edit.
Build Interactive Dichotomous Key Diagrams
-
Custom properties and additional data fields to add information about organisms.
-
Use frames to generate page-like layouts to organize data, or build presentations.
-
Export as SVGs, PDFs, and PNGs to publish, present, print, and share.
-
Embed in any site or share them with anyone via an email or link invite to collaborate.
What is a Dichotomous Key?
How Can You Collaborate Around a Dichotomous Key in a Classroom Setting?
Dichotomous keys are used to identify objects or organisms based on a series of choices between two characteristics. It can help students to develop critical thinking, problem-solving abilities and also help them to gain a deeper understanding on a subject area. Below are some ways how a dichotomous key can be used in a classroom setting.
- To teach students on how to identify different species of plants and animals in Biology.
- To teach students about the classification of living things and how a dichotomous key is used to identify different taxonomic groups, such as phyla, classes, and orders.
- As a problem-solving tool to help students identify an unknown substance or object based on its physical characteristics.
- Help students classify different types of writing genres, such as poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in language arts.
- Help students identify different types of landforms, such as mountains, valleys, and plateaus.
How to Create a Dichotomous Key in Your Classroom?
- First select a suitable platform
Select a platform to draw your dichotomous key. Creately’s dichotomous key maker offers an intuitive interface for drawing dichotomous keys online.
- Assign groups
Divide the class into small groups. Assign each a specific group of organisms to build a dichotomous key.
- Research and gather information
Guide each group to conduct a thorough research and gather information about the assigned organisms' physical characteristics, habitat, and other features. Show them how to list down the characteristics of the specimen they are trying to classify with the dichotomous key.
Create and assign folders and workspaces to each group in Creately. Provide necessary permissions to edit.
- Organize the information
Organize the characteristics in order. Start with the most general characteristics before moving to the more specific ones. Identify the more obvious and less obvious contrasting characteristics among the specimen before creating your dichotomous key.
Use Creately’s powerful and customizable table function to list down characteristics. Highlight with configurable color themes to better analyze and understand.
- Divide the specimens
Divide the specimens into two groups. The first differentiation should be made on the most general characteristic. Based on the next contrasting characteristics, divide the specimen further. Continue to subdivide the specimen by asking enough questions until your group has identified and named all of them.
- Write the key
Guide each group on how to use the already organized information to create the key. Ensure that each statement in the key has two options and that each choice leads to a unique identification of the organism.
You can create a text-based dichotomous key or a graphical one where you can even use images of the specimen you are trying to identify. Easily drag and drop shapes to create the dichotomous key and use the notes panel of each element to include more information along with attachments and links. You can also import images or use the in-built Google search function to include graphics on the canvas.
- Review and revise
Once created, share the key with other groups for feedback to improve. Use comments and discussion threads to exchange feedback on the shared canvas. Each group can share the workspaces via an email or link invite.
- Test and present
Test the validity of your dichotomous key by using it to identify various organisms from the chosen group.
As the next step, the groups can present the finalized key to the class. Use frames inside the canvas to build presentations and report-like layouts for interactive lectures and to share information.
Create Your Dichotomous Key Online with Editable Templates
Dichotomous Key for Insects
Dichotomous Key for Plants
Dichotomous Key for Leaves
Bacteria Diachotomous Key Template
Phylogenetic Tree
Phylogenetic Tree of Felines
The African Savanna Food Web
Food Web Diagram
FAQs About the Dichotomous Key Maker
Streamline Your Workflows by Integrating with the Tools You Love
Creately integrates with the tools your teams use every day and supports your team’s workflow seamlessly.
Why is Creately a Better Dichotomous Key Maker
Creately is the intelligent visual platform enabling visual collaboration, knowledge management and project execution.
100+ proprietary features deliver a flexible, no-code visual platform, expertly-tuned for ease of use.
Infinite Visual Canvas
Visually create and organize any structure you imagine. Drag drop shapes or datasets, embed external content.
Real-Time Collaboration
Work remote or hybrid with realtime cursor tracking, synced previews and proper in-context comments and tasks.
Custom Databases
Create custom databases for any kind of information from tasks, HR personnel records to matters for law firms.
Data Driven Docs
Create docs and notes to go deeper from the high-level visual views. 2 way link to other docs, shapes or data with @mentions.
Professional Diagramming
50+ types of standard diagrams with 1000+ specially designed shapes and connectors enable blazing fast diagramming.
Project & Task Management
Use built-in agile project management tooling or integrate with your favourite project management tool to keep work flowing.
Enterprise Grade Security
ISO 27001, SOC 2 - Type 2, Data Residency & Up-time SLAs to collaborate securely with your entire organization.
Powerful Visual Modelling
Visuals that are backed by databases, update once, reflect in multiple views type of workflows.
Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance
We’re dedicated to keeping your data private, secure and safe. Creately is SOC2-Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant. We offer flexible data residency options in USA, EU and Australia to our enterprise customers.
Just Plug and Play
An easy-to-use interface with a minimal learning curve. Simply Sign-In using your work email to automatically add team members to the enterprise plan.
No installation required.
Work Visually with Anyone for a Fixed Monthly Price
- Unlimited Canvases
- Unlimited items per Canvas
- 20 Active Folders
- 5GB storage
- 30 day version history
- Unlimited Imports
- All export formats
- Basic collaboration
- Email Support
- Unlimited workspaces
- 1000 Items per canvas
- 10 active folders
- Basic collaboration
- 100 Imports
- High Res Exports
- 5000 items per canvas
- 50 active folders
- 30 day version history
- Advanced collaboration
- 100 Imports
- Multiple named users
- Unlimited Databases
- 5000 items per Database
- Project Management tools
- HR, Product, IT, Process toolkits
- Advanced collaboration
- Most integrations
- 100 GB storage
- One Account Admin
- Email + Chat support
- SOC2 & ISO27001 Security
- Unlimited items per canvas
- Unlimited folders
- 1 year version history
- Unlimited databases
- 5000 items per DB
- One account admin
- Email + Chat support
- SOC 2 & ISO 27001 Security
- 3 Canvases (60 items max)
- 1 Folder
- Limited storage
- Basic integrations
- Raster image only exports
- Unlimited items per DB
- Unlimited 2-way data sync from integrations
- All integrations
- Sharing controls
- Multiple Account Admins
- Multiple Sub-Teams
- Single Sign On
- Customer success + account management
- SOC2 & ISO27001 Security
- Custom Data Residency
- Unlimited items per DB
- Unlimited 2 way data sync
- All integrations
- Sharing controls
- Multiple Account Admins
- Multiple Sub Teams
- Customer Success Manager
- SOC 2 & ISO 27001 Security
- Custom Data Residency