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Phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships.  Using DNA or protein sequence data from different species, it is possible to identify potential relationships among these.  This lesson introduces a software program called MEGA, which takes comparative genomic data and generates phylogenetic trees.  For this lesson, the materials include a slide deck with a transcript as well as an exercise, plus the exercise key.  

• CreatingPhylogenies_March2018.docx(DOCX | 18 KB)
• FASTA for PRIP exercise.txt(TXT | 2 KB)
• CreatingPhylogenies_March2018_KEY.docx(DOCX | 790 KB)
• Part V - Phylogenetics-transcript.docx(DOCX | 149 KB)
• Part V - Phylogenetics.pptx(PPTX | 3 MB)
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Anne Rosenwald, Gaurav Arora, Vinayak Mathur (2019). Lesson V - Phylogenetics. Genome Solver, (Version 2.0). QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/HBAR-5X64

  BibTex | EndNote

1. 1 Hour
2. Activity Length
3. Audience Level
4. Bioinformatics and Genomics
5. Bioinformatics Education
6. High School
7. Homework
8. Instructional Setting
9. introductory
10. Lab
11. Lecture
12. Majors
13. Non-majors
14. Online course
15. Teaching material
16. Undergraduate

The resource is part of the series below:

• Genome Solver: Complete Set of Lessons

  The Genome Solver Project began as a way to teach faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics - no coding or scripting. These Lessons also work well in the undergraduate classroom, culminating with an authentic community research project.

Materials were updated as of Fall 2018.  Note that because the slide decks and exercises point to external websites and web-based tools, some of the illustrations contained in the materials may not look exactly like the live website.  Functionality is usually unchanged. 

Added fasta files for PRIP exercise Fall 2019