... and understanding of skills and content without sacrificing academic rigor while reducing the need for individual accommodations. (For more information on the UDL framework, see cast.org .) © 2024 by National Association of Biology Teachers 2024 Universal Design for Learning Tree Thinking Phylogeny...

... COVID-19 online phylogeny SARS-CoV-2 spike protein The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic created a need for online high school instruction throughout the world. Major school districts, including San Diego Unified School District, Los Angeles Unified School District, and Chicago Unified School District...

... will work together to group organisms based on shared traits; classify animals using the hierarchical rankings of taxonomy (Phylum, Class, Order, etc.); draw and interpret phylogenies to represent evolutionary relationships of taxa; and use appropriate terminology, such as synapomorphies...

..., and molecular evolution. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 genotype phenotype MEGA phylogeny drawing discovery plasticity predators ecology The concepts of genotypes (heritable, nonobservable sets of genes) and phenotypes (expression of genes) comprise...

... children to the theory of biological evolution . Evolution: Education and Outreach , 4 ( 2 ), 275 – 285 . © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 adaptation common ancestry evolution natural selection Next Generation Science Standards phylogeny science curricula...

.... Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 dragons phylogeny systematics evolution characters parsimony Across myriad...

...” in the theory of the round Earth. The Earth is round. Evolution happened and continues to happen. Evolution phylogeny animal kingdom DNA Evolution is the central, unifying theme in biology. As DNA sequencing has provided easily understood evidence for evolution, I make it a personal goal to discuss...

...Christopher G. Brown Evolution is a fundamental principle in biology, yet students, teachers, and the public at large all too often misunderstand the way it works. I introduce a hands-on exercise that emphasizes tree-thinking and phylogenies to organize biodiversity. During the activity, students...

.../journals.php?p=reprints . 2015 Student engagement evolution systematics phylogeny Educating high school and undergraduate students in the processes of evolution and confronting their misconceptions is one of the greatest challenges in American science education. Students often enter biology...

... and are able to make adjustments. Tree thinking scientific argumentation phylogeny evolution science practices data analysis Evolution continues to be the light that illuminates the study of biology from a “pile of sundry facts” to a richly “satisfying and inspiring science” ( Dobzhansky...

...://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp . 2015 Tree thinking phylogeny evolution Tree thinking was defined by O’Hara (1997) as a way of understanding taxa not as “independent replicates within a class” but as “interconnected parts of an evolutionary tree.” Evolutionary trees, known variously...

...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...