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This document discusses mammal evolution through morphology, taxonomy, and molecular phylogeny. It summarizes how the students examined skull morphology across 12 species and scored 10 characteristics to create a morphological tree. They also analyzed protein-coding DNA sequences from the same species to build a molecular phylogeny tree. Finally, they accessed an published phylogeny tree online from genetic data. The students compared their morphological and molecular trees to the published tree, finding the molecular data was more accurate than morphology which is prone to error when identifying traits.

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Mammal Evolution Oral Report PowerPoint

This document discusses mammal evolution through morphology, taxonomy, and molecular phylogeny. It summarizes how the students examined skull morphology across 12 species and scored 10 characteristics to create a morphological tree. They also analyzed protein-coding DNA sequences from the same species to build a molecular phylogeny tree. Finally, they accessed an published phylogeny tree online from genetic data. The students compared their morphological and molecular trees to the published tree, finding the molecular data was more accurate than morphology which is prone to error when identifying traits.

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MAMMAL EVOLUTION

Zachary Breen, Fatima Saavedra, Hanna Gleason,


Sanna Jaquith

MORPHOLOGY
Body Features
Skull Shape and Size
Room For Error

TAXONOMY - CLASSIFYING ORGANISMS


Keys to Evolutionary History
Morphology
Molecular Phylogeny
The Tree

MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY
Examination of Protein-Coding DNA Sequences
Responsible for Morphological Expression
More Direct Than Studying Only Phylogeny

Morphological Tree
Examined 12 different skull species
Scored 10 characteristics with either a 1 or a 2
depending on the list of characteristics given in
the lab
Scored recorded on notepad in specific format
Open notepad document into PanUp program
Created tree by compute consensus option
Opened in tree view and created a
morphological tree

Molecular Phylogeny Tree


Given a specific gene from all the genes examined in previous
lab
Created new alignment in MEGA program
Navigated to NCBI website from MEGA program, and added
the gene and species of given gene
Chose option that said complete cds
Added all other species names by Add to Alignment option
Added at least 7 species to the tree
Aligned using ClustalW in MEGA program
The saved alignment was then opened back up in MEGA
Created phylogeny tree through MEGA

Published Phylogeny Tree


Went to NCBI Website
Chose Taxonomy Common Tree option
Entered all given species in Enter name or
ID space
Pressed add button after each species
Tree automatically formed when each new
species was added
Saved in Tree view and compared to the
other 2 trees that were created

MORPHOLOGICAL TREE

MOLECULAR TREE
White-tailed deer
American Jackel
North American Beaver

North American raccoon


Fisher
American mink
European rabbit

Snowshoe hair
Eastern cottontail
Muskrat
Virginian opossum

PUBLISHED TREE

Newfoundland Pine marten

MORPHOLOGICAL VS. PUBLISHED

MOLECULAR VS. PUBLISHED

DISCUSSION
Molecular data was more accurate than the
morphological data.
Morphological Tree: Traits are not easy to identify
Why is so much error possible within morphology?
Sources of Error
Follow-Up Project

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