Read/post comments Be the first to rate this resource! To rate this resource, click a star: Answer the security question: 5 + 4 =

Overview: This activity uses a simple puzzle to get students to use cladistic thinking without bogging them down with terminology. Author/Source: American Biology Teacher Grade level: 9-12 Time: 30-50 minutes Teaching tips: This is a great introductory activity for a unit on phylogenetic. Concepts: Correspondence to the Next Generation Science Standards is indicated in parentheses after each relevant concept. See our conceptual framework for details. An organism's features reflect its evolutionary history. Similarities among existing organisms provide evidence for evolution. (LS4.A) Anatomical similarities of living things reflect common ancestry. (LS4.A) Evolutionary trees (i.e., phylogenies or cladograms) portray hypotheses about evolutionary relationships. Not all similar traits are homologous; some are the result of convergent evolution. Teacher background: Classification/Phylogenetics

<< Back to search results