...Vikash Morar In all fields of biology, understanding technical terminology is a challenge for students. In many cases, this may distract them from focusing on fundamental processes and concepts. Across the biology subfields, much of the vernacular shares similar etymology and morphology. However...

... the theories and concepts that students have learned in their freshman courses along with incorporating Bioinformatics, which is essential for teaching zoology in the 21st century. systematics morphology discussion pedagogy active learning Phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary...

...Kathryn M. Flinn In this classroom activity, students build a phylogeny for woody plant species based on the morphology of their twigs. Using any available twigs, students can practice the process of cladistics to test evolutionary hypotheses for real organisms. They identify homologous characters...

... cladograms can be compared with a published mammalian phylogeny. The exercise illustrates phylogenetics, the principle of parsimony, and hypothesis testing using morphological data. Students should come up with a list of qualitative characters that could be scored from the skulls, subject...

... biodiversity and evolution class can be designed and taught in a phyletically diverse marine setting in North America. © 2011 by National Association of Biology Teachers 2011 Teaching biodiversity marine field stations taxonomy molecular phylogenetics morphology For this course, the result...