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Students are able to describe the development of their chosen form of vertebrate life from the past to the present in a four to six page typed paper. They explain the use of phylogenetic tree. Students use the phylogenetic tree to exemplify an organism's evolutionary change as well as current information on the organism's current adaptation or change of habitat.

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phylogenetic trees, phylogeny, habitats, vertebrates

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9th - 10th
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Science
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5 days
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