Use existing GenBank sequences to compare
cladograms of the same plants with different gene inputs.
New techniques and methodologies may have come into use, and trees of life are now presented
as cladograms, diagrams, etc., but the principle remains the same.
Fossil abundance versus geologic period diagrams should be shown for all life forms discussed in the text or presented in tree of life or
cladogram interpretations.
Specifically, we're trying to collect many specimens of the same species so we can look at ontogeny — a creature's growth and development — and interpret behavior, rather than just
building cladograms [branching diagrams that illustrate the evolutionary relationships among species].
Organisms that do not have that characteristic belong on a different evolutionary branch, as shown in the
simplified cladogram at right.
Do other chloroplast genes result in the
same cladogram as the one built by aligning the rubisco gene?