6.1. Biological & Biomedical Sciences Assignment.

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* Remember to make a copy of this document. Then change the part that has my name to the college you are in and the semester and year to your name and first initial.
* You will turn in this whole document online, not just the answers. I also need the questions : )
* There is no quiz for this section
* Read the lecture note and then watch the video in order to answer the questions.
* Write an i123a note on the video.paulanderson.bozmanscience.cladogram.anerseniiaqauticus.youtube
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Classification using cladograms worksheet (10 pts)
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This section is designed as an easy points getter : )The path the course is now taking is to identify traits/characteristics and to think about how those traits have affected the species in question. For example, we have reviewed a bit about the changes in the skeletons of humans and other species. In those things we have noted skeletons have changed in a sequence overtime in that;
* Human types have special adaptations which allow and require a two legged walk, aka facultative bipedalism.
* There are isolation forces, geographic isolation, which can produce changes in animal types based on the ecosystem. For example,Foster’s Rule.
* That variation of species is measurable as noted by Darwin’s Finches.
Here in this section, there is a short lesson which gets the student acquainted with the process of biological classification. This is a small and simple lesson to give the idea of distinct traits, and mosaic species. This process can start with some basic assumptions, scientific ones, that things potentially get more complex as they change. It is important to note that a species can become simpler to survive but it also noted that some things become more complex. That being said we will start with the assumption that; things potentially get more complex as they change. Simpler is then older and more complex is newer.
Note in following species, Andersenii aquaticus, is about first, the identification of the simply described simplest form of the organism, noted by the membranes (borders) and nothing else distinctive (Table1, Key concept 1.)
This lesson assesses Mendel’s first law of: segregation. That is that offspring inherit their traits from parents. Therefore, related species had to get their traits from ones that existed before.
It assesses evolutionary theory in showing that organisms tend towards complexity but at time entropy happens and things leave the family line.
It shows the theory of phylogenetics ( gene types) and shows the relation in arbitrary time on the cladogram.
Table 1

Key concept 1: simplest is oldest.
This species group gives us a choice: the simplest types which have membranes are the circle and the oval but it is not known or obvious which comes first.

Andersenii aquaticus membranes only

Key concept 2: data.
One may assume, if this is all we compare, that either the circle is older or that the oval is older. Ultimately, more data is needed to answer this question. One way to acquire more data is to find more and closely related types. In this case, the next closest type is one which h...