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Students describe the development of their chosen form of vertebrate life from the past to the present in a four to six page paper. They explain the use of a phylogenetic tree, and use this to exemplify an organism's evolutionary change as well as current information on the organism's current adaptation or change of habitat.

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phylogenetic trees, phylogeny

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Grade
9th - 10th
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Science
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3 days
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Research

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