" The Big Picture!" by Mr C

Last lessons Objectives

1.   Exam

2.   Taxonomy for class plants

3.   Media board assignments

b)   What is a cladogram?

c)    How to use fossil evidence as direct proof

Exam

Number One

Handed out or

http://faculty.montvilleschools.org/bhayes/biology/handouts/evolution_of_barbellus.pdf

Step one:

Organize by layer of rocks with oldest on the bottom.

Step two

Organize by similarity in structure. You can move the organism side ways but not up or down? Why?

Step three

Identify structures that look similar? For example: limbs, fins, eyes, segments in body and antenna. How would these structures be linked to environment the organism lives in?

Create cladogram with aquatic species on x axis and terrestrial

As seen via the internet

Basic ideas

·      Law of superposition

·      Adaptations

·      Using a cladogram

·      Extinction

·      Diverge and converge

Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvC1rs7k8j8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSICRTjJae0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz2z0cg0YDY

Number Two

http://study.com/academy/lesson/cladogram-definition-examples.html

Higher level interpretation from Yale

http://peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/what-cladogram

Videos

From Utah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEIvwqoIhI

Bozeman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZ9zEkxGWg

Understanding a phylogenetic tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVW8iIEfiZI&t=17s

Number Three

Preview to next class lab

a)   Isolation mechanisms

b)   Elephant lab

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/31/elephant-teeth-teach-about-evolution

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/mammoth-modern-elephant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95RKsAR7SW8

Chapter 1 pg. 38-49

Class Notes

Chapter 2 Evidence of evolution

Class hand outs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtW9IyE04OQ