Title: Yet another Exercise on Relationship Tree Building
Url: http://www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-37/v37reprint.php?ch=53
Author: Marianne Niedzlek-Feaver
Author's Address: North Carolina State University, Department of Biological Sciences, NC
Email Address: mnfeaver@ncsu.edu
Description: This workshop emphasized the differences among relationship trees built using a Phylogenetics or Cladistics approach or a more Traditional or Classic Systematics approach. Books still mix the two approaches. This is a simple 30-45 minute exercise where groups of students construct a relationship tree using the assumptions of one or the other school.. The exercise challenges and motivates students who start only with a base diagram of an ancestor and the outline of a relationship tree. Students have responded quite positively to this exercise and their ability to correctly answer questions on exams related to clade building certainly has increased.
Keywords: classification
synapomorphy
cladistics
Topic: Teaching Tools and Techniques
Evolution
BEN Subject/Discipline Taxonomy: Taxonomy & Classification
Teaching Tools and Techniques
Phylogeny
Invertebrate Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Learning Resource Type: Assignment/Activity non-laboratory (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
Context: Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Undergraduate upper division 15-16
Format: pdf
Access Rights: This resource is for ABLE members only.
Rights: http://www.ableweb.org/copyright-policy/
Conference Location & Year: Boston University (2015)
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