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Southwest Tennessee Community College: Classification of Organisms
College-level instructor's notes describing taxonomy. Explanations and images give a chronological history of the science of classifying organisms.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Phylogenetic Classification
An illustrated article helps students understand the concept of phylogenetic classification.
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: Distribution in Time and Space
The Understanding Evolution site provides evidence for evolution in biogeography utilizing relative dating, geography, and plate tectonics.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phylogenetic Trees
Learn what a phylogenetic tree is, Learn how to read phylogenetic trees and determine which species are most related.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Building a Phylogenetic Tree
Understand the logic behind phylogenetic trees. Learn how to build a tree using data about features that are present or absent in a group of organisms.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Ernst Haeckel
Find out about Ernst Haeckel, a scientist known for his work with ecology, zoology, and the study of phylogeny.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Phylogenetic Classification
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces phylogenetic classification and compares it with the Linnaean classification.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Phylogenetic Classification
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces phylogenetic classification and compares it with the Linnaean classification.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Classification of Organisms Quiz
Take an interactive quiz over the classification of living things. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Classification Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over classification of organisms, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
Other
The Evidence for Evolution: Biogeography
These pages are part of a site called "Evolution," that accompanies a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. These pages are about the house sparrow and the differences that can be observed in it in different geographical...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Classifying Organisms Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a unit on classifying organisms.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
A collection of video lectures introducing beginning biology students to the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior. The course was taught three times a week for a semester at Yale University. The course discusses concepts of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Early Tetrapod Fossils
In this transcript of an interview filmed for the PBS series "Evolution," scientists Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin describe the discovery and significance of some of their key fossil finds.