An Evolutionary Approach to Teaching about Ferns in a Plant Kingdom Course

 

Marshall D. Sundberg

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1983, Volume 4

Abstract

This exercise should be used to have students form their own classification of ferns by observing a variety of structural modifications in several ferns. The activity will give the students an understanding of some of the problems involved with phylogenetic classifications.

Keywords:  evolutionary branching, phylogenetic classification

University of Washington (1982)