MasteringBiology without Pearson eText for -- Virtual Lab Systematics Room -- Standalone Access Card

by Brigham Young University

• ISBN13: 9780321722799
• ISBN10: 0321722795
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Access Card
• Copyright: 2010-07-06
• Publisher: Benjamin Cummings

Summary

MasteringBiology reg; : Virtual Labs is an online environment that promotes critical thinking skills using virtual experiments and explorations that may be difficult to perform in a wet lab environment due to time, cost, or safety concerns. MasteringBiology: Virtual Labs offers unique learning experiences in the areas of Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, and Systematics. This is the access code card for the Systematics Lab.

Table of Contents

Systematics Lab Room

 

Available Lab Reports Include:

How to Video: Systematics Lab Overview

How to Video: Tree View 1

How to Video: Tree View 2

Introduction to Systematics

Learning Goal: To learn how biologists classify species based on their evolutionary relationships.

Introduction: Almost every place on Earth, from the surface of your skin to the bottom of the ocean, is teeming with living things. To keep track of the vast diversity of life, biologists historically named and classified organisms according to their appearance. The system of categorizing organisms is known as taxonomy. Today, scientists classify organisms into taxonomic groups (taxa) according to their evolutionary history. This discipline is known as systematics.

The Virtual Systematics Lab features a collection of pictures and descriptions of diverse species that represent major evolutionary pathways. In the Systematics Lab, you can explore five different taxonomic classification schemes that biologists have used--from the traditional Linnaean scheme to the current three-domain system.

In this activity, you will learn how to use the Virtual Systematics Lab to identify the characteristics that various organisms share and to determine the relatedness of different taxa.

 

Land Plants

TEMPLATE: Virtual Systematics Lab Assignment