Exploratory Activities for Understanding Evolutionary Relationships Depicted by Phylogenetic Trees: United but Diverse
| Autor: | Erin L. McCullough, Alaina Weinsztok, Lauren Verdeflor, Steve Dorus, Jason R. Wiles |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Phylogenetic tree Process (engineering) media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education Tree of life 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Data science Article Education Cladogram Component (UML) Active learning ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0503 education Diversity (politics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Am Biol Teach |
| ISSN: | 1938-4211 0002-7685 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/abt.2020.82.5.333 |
| Popis: | Evolution explains both the unity and the diversity of all organisms, and developing students' ability to represent and communicate evolutionary relationships is an important component of a complete biology education. We present a series of student-centered, exploratory activities to help students develop their tree-thinking skills. In these activities, students use complementary phenotypic and molecular data to explore how to build phylogenetic trees and interpret the evolutionary relationships they represent. This learning module is designed to engage students in the process of science, provide them with active learning experiences using online bioinformatics tools, and foster their appreciation for the evolutionary connections across the tree of life. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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