• Bronx Preparatory Charter School - New York

• BIO MISC

Tiana Lebron Practicing Phylogeny with a Tree-Thinking POGIL Model 1: 1. To whom are you more closely related, your sister or your cousin? Explain your reasoning. My sister because we share the same parents. 2. Who is more closely related to Cousin #1, you or your sister? Explain your reasoning. I am because we are the oldest out of all of the grandchildren so we were each other's only friends until our younger siblings came about. 3. What individuals might be represented by each of the following letters: A: Parents B: Grandparents C: Aunt/Uncle 4. Congratulations! You have a new baby sibling! Add and label a line to Model 1 to show your sibling on Model 1. Explain why you placed your baby sibling where you did. Because my sibling and I would share the same parents the line representing it would connect to the A line where my sister and I are connected to. 5. In Model 1, which tells you how closely related two individuals are: the branching pattern of the lines, or the vertical location of the tips of the branches? Justify your answer. The horizontal lines branch off of the letters that represent each set of parents it either ends or expands the “tree”. So the vertical branch that connects the horizontal branches shows which pieces are closely related