Diversity of Life
This pathway provides an in-depth look at organizing life on Earth, and determining evolutionary relationships. The pathway also provides vocabulary support for these topics, as well as opportunities for learners to self-assess their understanding by analyzing figures and answering questions.
Topics
- analogous structure
- binomial nomenclature
- branch point
- clade
- cladistics
- class
- domain
- family
- genus
- kingdom
- maximum parsimony
- molecular systematics
- monophyletic group
- order
- phylogenetic tree
- phylogeny
- phylum
- rooted
- shared ancestral character
- shared derived character
- sister taxa
- species
- systematics
- taxon
- taxonomy