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Using DNA to Explore Lizard Phylogeny


Author: BioInteractive
Subject: Medical and Health Sciences
Source: BioInteractive
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In this activity, students explore the phenomenon of convergent evolution presented in the short film The Origin of Species: Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree. They build and interpret phylogenetic trees to infer how certain adaptations evolved among the Anole lizard populations of the Caribbean.

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