Slide 1Ozzie Vilhelmsson Zoology Building, Room 213 Tel.: (01224 27) 2867 Email: [email protected] Estimating and using phylogenies Slide 2 What fossils tell us What…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Evolution: Classification Phylogeny Cladistics Dichotomous Keys Slide 3 Classification How do scientists classify &identify organisms? Scientists identify…

Slide 1 October 23, 2014 Objective: To look at evidence for evolution and arrange organisms in to cladograms based on common characteristics Journal: What are three examples…

Slide 1 Jeopardy Classification 1 Binomial Nomenclature Evolutionary Relationships Miscellaneous $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Final Jeopardy Classification…

Slide 1 Ardeidae Bitterns, Herons and Egrets Extant Pterodactyls What Order? Ciconiiformes Slide 2 Ciconiiformes Families Ardeidae Ardeidae Balaenicipitidae Balaenicipitidae…

Slide 1 Tree of Life: primary divisions OEB 192 – 11.09.12 Slide 2 Tree of Life: three “domains” Based on 16S rRNA (Woese, 1987): Slide 3 Tree of Life: three “domains”…

Slide 1 OEB 192 – 10.09.13 “Evolutionary speculation constitutes a kind of metascience, which has the same intellectual fascination for some biologists that metaphysical…

Slide 1 Systematics The study of biological diversity in an evolutionary context Slide 2 Systematic Tools l Molecular Comparisons –usually (rRNA or mtDNA) u DNA-DNA Hybridization…