Using Mollusk Phylogeny to Teach Evolution

Susan Offner

doi:10.1525/abt.2014.76.7.3

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Using Mollusk Phylogeny to Teach Evolution

Susan Offner

The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 76 No. 7, September 2014; (pp. 432-435) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2014.76.7.3

SUSAN OFFNER is a biology teacher at Lexington High School, Lexington, MA 02421; e-mail: soffner@ix.netcom.com.

For correspondence: soffner@ix.netcom.com

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New phylogenomic tools have made it possible to construct a robust phylogenetic tree of mollusks. This tree can be used to teach important evolutionary principles.

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Evolutionary relationships
mollusks
phylogenomic tools
phylogenetic trees

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