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What did T. Rex Taste Like?
Author/Source: UC Museum of Paleontology |
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Overview: | In this web-based module students are introduced to cladistics, which organizes living things by common ancestry and evolutionary relationships. |
Concepts: | This lesson covers the following concepts:- Biological evolution accounts for diversity over long periods of time.
- All organisms, including humans, retain evidence of their evolutionary history.
- Similarities among existing organisms provide evidence for evolution.
- Anatomical similarities of living things reflect common ancestry.
- Scientists pose, test, and revise multiple hypotheses to explain what they observe.
- Scientists use anatomical evidence to infer the relatedness of taxa.
- Scientists use fossils (including sequences of fossils showing gradual change over time) to learn about past life.
- Classification is based on evolutionary relationships.
- Evolutionary trees (e.g., phylogenies or cladograms) are built from multiple lines of evidence.
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Grade Level: | 9-12 |
Time: | Two to four class periods. |
Teacher Background: | Explore these links for additional information on the topics covered in this lesson: |
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