{"id":193,"date":"2018-01-18T18:29:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology2\/chapter\/introduction-to-phylogenies-and-the-history-of-life\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:43:26","slug":"introduction-to-phylogenies-and-the-history-of-life","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology2\/chapter\/introduction-to-phylogenies-and-the-history-of-life\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Phylogenies and the History of Life","rendered":"Introduction to Phylogenies and the History of Life"},"content":{"raw":"

What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0Read and analyze a phylogenetic tree that documents evolutionary relationships<\/h2>\r\nThis bee and Echinacea<\/em> flower (Figure 1) could not look more different, yet they are related, as are all living organisms on Earth. By following pathways of similarities and changes\u2014both visible and genetic\u2014scientists seek to map the evolutionary past of how life developed from single-celled organisms to the tremendous collection of creatures that have germinated, crawled, floated, swam, flown, and walked on this planet.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1593\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]\"Photo Figure 1. The life of a bee is very different from the life of a flower, but the two organisms are related. Both are members the domain Eukarya and have cells containing many similar organelles, genes, and proteins. (credit: modification of work by John Beetham[\/caption]","rendered":"

What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0Read and analyze a phylogenetic tree that documents evolutionary relationships<\/h2>\n

This bee and Echinacea<\/em> flower (Figure 1) could not look more different, yet they are related, as are all living organisms on Earth. By following pathways of similarities and changes\u2014both visible and genetic\u2014scientists seek to map the evolutionary past of how life developed from single-celled organisms to the tremendous collection of creatures that have germinated, crawled, floated, swam, flown, and walked on this planet.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. The life of a bee is very different from the life of a flower, but the two organisms are related. Both are members the domain Eukarya and have cells containing many similar organelles, genes, and proteins. (credit: modification of work by John Beetham<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t

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