For Lab 4, you will complete two exercises:
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Exercise 7 – Cladistics and Kingdom of Life
Learning Objectives
After completing this lab, the students will be able to:
- identify the six kingdoms and their distinguishing characteristics.
- classify the organisms based on their common characteristics.
Lab Readings
Read the following materials before you begin the experiment.
1. Module 1: Introduction to Biology (Lumen Learning)
- Why It Matters: Introduction to Biology
- Introduction to Characteristics of Life
- Properties of Life
- Levels of Organization of Living Things
- Introduction to Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
- Comparing Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
- Introduction to Taxonomy
- The Diversity of Life
- Phylogenetic Tree
- Taxonomy
2. Chapter 12 Diversity of Life (Openstax)
Videos
Watch the following videos on the scientific method before you start the lab activity.
- Classification of Life on youtube (Bozeman science) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYL_8gv7RiE&
- Cladograms on you tube (Bozeman Science)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZ9zEkxGWg
Lab Activity
Cladogram Practice #1 The evolution of flight in birds.
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/reslab/flight/main.htm
Quiz
- Fill out the Cladogram questions in both Part I and part II. How Does a Cladogram Reveal Evolutionary Relationships?(https://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/cladogram.html)
