Baraminology begins by examining the names of each known animal, plant, or fungus, and rigorously analyzing them using the well-thought-out technique of irreducible complexity. For example, the "dog", consisting of a mere three letters, constitutes a baramin known as the dog kind, because if you remove any one of the letters, you get either "do", "dg", or "og", all of which are palpable nonsense. On the other hand, the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, according to the following five-step baraminological reduction pathway: