Assignment: 2/8/22 The Biogeography of Gallotia lizards DAY 1

AP BIOLOGY-B
2022-02-08T04:21:45Z

Due: Feb 8, 2022 by 11:59pm

An aspect of the field of evolution is trying to understand how species branched from an ancestral population as time progressed. Since the process often takes longer than a human lifetime we rely on the evidence we can gather in the present to determine what happened in the past.

Over the next several days we will be evaluating data about populations of lizards living on the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. It seems clear that the various species and populations share an ancestry, but it is less obvious which population was the ancestor and which is the descendent.

If you were gone today, the following POWER POINT introduced the activity.

Submit a picture of your cladogram from today.

An aspect of the field of evolution is trying to understand how species branched from an ancestral population as time progressed. Since the process often takes longer than a human lifetime we rely on the evidence we can gather in the present to determine what happened in the past.

Over the next several days we will be evaluating data about populations of lizards living on the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. It seems clear that the various species and populations share an ancestry, but it is less obvious which population was the ancestor and which is the descendent.

If you were gone today, the following POWER POINT introduced the activity.

Submit a picture of your cladogram from today.