Talk:Identification (biology)
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Awful start of article
[edit]The beginning of this article reads:
"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, 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 this a joke? Did someone with an uncanny obsession with the word "individual" write this? Even ignoring the repetition, it's completely inaccurate, as the point of identification is to identify the species (i.e., an evolutionary lineage composed of populations of organisms), not a specific individual. There is no such thing as "individualistic natural body features" or "individual markers" or "natural individualistic molecular markers" in biological identification. Unless you're identifying a 1-in-8-billion chance mutation in humans, this will never be true. Absolutely ridiculous — Snoteleks (talk) 16:47, 21 December 2025 (UTC)