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A Tree of Trees: Using Campus Tree Diversity to Integrate Molecular, Organismal, and Evolutionary Biology

Sophia Huang, Justen B. Whittall
Journal: The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2018) 80 (2): 144–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2018.80.2.144
Published: 01 February 2018
... 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 . 2018 comparative morphology dichotomous key parsimony phylogenetic trees synapomorphy tree thinking 18S small subunit...
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Building a Twig Phylogeny

Kathryn M. Flinn
Journal: The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2015) 77 (2): 141–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2015.77.2.10
Published: 01 February 2015
..., determine polarity through outgroup comparison, and construct a parsimonious tree based on synapomorphies (shared derived characters). This activity efficiently demonstrates many systematics concepts, including homology, homoplasy (convergence and reversal), polarity, synapomorphy, symplesiomorphy...
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Competitive Phylogenetics: A Laboratory Exercise

Declan J. McCabe
Journal: The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2014) 76 (2): 127–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2014.76.2.10
Published: 01 February 2014
.... Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions Web site at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp . 2014 Phylogeny morphology parsimony clade cladistics polytomy synapomorphy Occam’s razor homoplasy...
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