Fig. 5
From: A valid assessment of students’ skill in determining relationships on evolutionary trees
Interview question containing a similarity strategy distracter with example student responses. The correct response is a. Sparrow. The incorrect response is b. Lizard was designed with a similarity distracter; the lizard’s appearance is more similar to the crocodile than the appearance of the sparrow is to the crocodile. Student 4 and Student 5 both employ the similarity strategy to determine the relationships of the taxa and both answer incorrectly