Authors of original unit: Paul Lock

Partner Projects: Biology Student Workbench

Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

Subject Areas: Biochemistry, Evolution and Natural Selection, Taxonomy, Uses of Databases , ipunitsample

In this tutorial, you will use phylogenic trees (Cladistic Diagrams) to predict the evolutionary history of similar organisms using biology workbench

Intended for high school chemistry teachers, who wish to use computational tools in the classroom. Also suitable for introductory college chemistry. It could also be used directly by students for self-study.

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Introduction: Background information on Phylogenic trees and evolutionary history.

Part 1: Opening An Account, Starting a new Session and Using the Ndjinn Tool to Search Sequence Databases

Part 2: Comparing the amino acid sequences using clustalw and Generating a composite cladistic or phylogenic tree