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Fig. 9 | Evolution: Education and Outreach

Fig. 9

From: Who’s related to whom? Use published phylogenies and make customized tree-thinking assessments

Fig. 9

Question development using published phylogeny of arthropods, assessment trees, and images. a Taxa selected from an arthropod phylogeny (modified from Fig. 1 in Meusemann et al. 2010) with clades color-coded. b Assessment categories for each taxonomic group. c Taxa selected for the assessment question: bee (focal; green), ant (MCR; green), hoverfly (similarity; blue), monarch (proximity; blue), and beetle (node counting; yellow). d A color-coded rooted tree, B.6 (Figs. 3, 4b). e Assessment tree B.6.1 (Fig. 4b). The assessment tree is configured by branch addition and clade rotation about nodes so taxa acting as distracters in the question represent their respective incorrect strategy. Sample question: Who is most closely related to the Bee? a. Beetle, b. Hoverfly, c. Monarch, d. Ant

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