Tree thinking is a fundamental skill in biology. This workshop highlights two exercises that are designed to provide students with experience interpreting trees and using them to test a hypothesis. Both use a freely available set of web tools (www.phylogeny.fr) to analyze sequences downloaded from GenBank. The first exercise uses molecular data to simulate testing the identity of fish species served in a sushi restaurant. The second is a guided inquiry exercise that allows students to use phylogenetic techniques to test the claims of a simulated advocacy group. In this workshop, we will work through these exercises and then discuss how the techniques can be adapted for other scenarios.
Keywords: Evolution, phylogenetics, Inquiry-based learning, molecular phylogeny, tree thinking
University of Ottawa (2019)
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