Evolution Hardware Cladogram
In this project we were given 72 fossils(screws and nuts) and told to make an evolution story including all of them. We also had to name ever "organism" using taxonomy which is orgaism classication system. We showed the evolutionary story by making a cladogram which shows the organism's relationship and how traits developed over time with evolution. A story was also written out to go along with the presentation and cladogram. We made multiple rough drafts of the cladogram before the final version. All drafts can be seen in the slideshow below. Everything that went into this project was to learn about evolution.
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Content
- Evolution-change in organisms genetically over time;
- Taxonomy-Naming system that uses Latin name each organism is divided into domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus and speciation.
- Speciation- When new species is created within population that can not reproduce with the rest of population. This happen by;
- sympatric speciation- new species evolve for species that lives in same geographical area.
- allopatric speciation-new species evolve from a single species due to separation.
- temporal isolation- prevents species from mating due to different mating times.
- geographic isolation- species is split by a geographic feature, and they evolve differently because of different environments.
- genetic drift- random change in gene population .
- behavioral isolation- different mating rituals and signals separate the species into groups
- Cladogram-A chart the separates orgaism/species by their traits.
- Natural Selection-Theory of evolution created by Charles Darwin. There is variation within a species causing different adaptations. Individuals with advantageous adaptations will survive to pass down their adaptations.
Our end product that we made was a cladogram and each fossil was given a name using Taxonomy. The story we wrote used speciation to explain who organism evolved.
Reflection
This project I feel turned out great. The slides and poster look great. Both the poster and slides are clear and have good information. The posters also look aesthetically pleasing. The story was well written and full explains how organisms evolved. The group I was part of worked together really well. We were able to get a lot of good work done. At first our progress was slow, but once we focused and started working we did a lot of good work. We probably should have distributed the work better because we reached a lot of points where only one or two people could work on the project and someone was felt out. I felt like I did too little work on this project. I also did not contribute to much of research aspect. In the future I plan to work harder and more on projects. I learned how to write a story for explaining evolution and draw a cladogram.