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Making Cladograms Lesson Plan

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Making Cladograms

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Students construct cladograms (evolutionary trees), showing how shared derived characters can be used to reveal degrees of relationship. They interpret and analyze cladograms, and determine where unclassified vertebrates would fit on a cladogram.

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Concepts

evolution, the theory of evolution, phylogeny

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Grade

9th - 12th

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1 hr

Year

1996

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