How Do Scientist Identify a New Species?
Depends on what you are looking at. In Botany for example, several things are considered, such as leaf shape and size, does it flower or not, what the flowers look like, does it grow tall (like a tree) or stay short (like a bush), etc. When you take a specialized science class, like Botany or Zoology, you learn these guidelines for classification. Most importantly, when determining the find of a new species, the subject must have a trait that uniquely sets it apart from previously other known species, and there has to be several other subjects that share the exact same trait, otherwise the trait is known as a mutation or simple uniqueness.
