Reclassifying using DNA, cladistics & rRNA (2025)
In this lesson students first try to make a cladogram using the physical appearance of flowers from the figwort family. This illustrates how classification has been done for many years. In the second activity students investigate how new data from DNA sequences has led to new evidence which upsets the accepted classification of Figworts and other species. Finally students consider how the evidence from modern cladistics...
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