Please put away all cell phones and electronic devices during the period today.

Journal Entry:

How can you use a cladogram to determine characteristics of an organism on the cladogram? For example, what are the characteristics of a dinosaur according to the cladogram below?

Learning Intentions  

• We will learn how to create cladograms and use them to better understand groups of organisms.

• We will learn what features marine organisms have in common and what they have different to understand evolutionary relatedness

Closing task:
You can complete a cladogram for plastic marine organisms in class

Content Standards being covered:

• HS-LS1-2: Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.