Curated OER
AP: Chapter 25: Phylogeny and Systematics
As a review or note taking guide, this resource wraps up a unit on the tree of life. Biology bigwigs define phylogeny and answer questions about the subsequent classification of organisms. The worksheet takes a straightforward and...
Curated OER
Systematics and the Phylogenetic Revolution
This assignment conducts a thorough exploration of systematics. Clearly designed for an AP biology course, questions pertain to taxonomic categories, phylogeny, and construction of cladograms.
Curated OER
Systematics: Classifying Organisms
Students describe the techniques biologists use to classify organisms. In this biology lesson, students create cladograms and phylogenetic trees. They list the levels of taxonomic hierarchy.
City University of New York
Classification: Bringing Order Out of Chaos
A self-directed module on all aspects of biological classifications that covers the species problem, diversity and chaos, cladistics, putting things in groups, and so on.
New York University
Classification
These lecture notes describe the techniques used in traditional systematic classification systems and compare them with the most modern approaches to classification.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Estrella Mountain College: Classification
Discusses many aspects of information pertainingto organism classification. Provides links to other areas in biology as well.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum
This site provides general information, exhibits, museum news, etc. about the San Diego Natural History Museum.
National Institutes of Health
National Center for Biotechnology Information: Phylogenetics Factsheet
A detailed website that explains the history and process of classifying animals using evolutionary, molecular, and physical characteristics relationships. Website also contains information on evolution and evolutionary processes....
Miami University
Miami University: Nuts and Bolts of Classification
Discusses many aspects of taxonomy. Provides a lab activity where students are required to devise a classification scheme for nuts, bolts, and other hardware items.
University of California
Ucmp: Online Exhibits
Visit the virtual exhibits at this site to learn more about paleontology, the history of the earth, and life on earth. Use the information on this site to understand geology, geologic time, evolution, and phylogeny.
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: Understanding Evolution
This resource presents extensive information for learning about and teaching evolution including an in depth course "Evolution 101", teaching materials, and a resource library.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Higher Education: Classification
This site from McGraw-Hill Higher Education provides links to key terms, lecture notes, and readings on classification, as well as questions from Raven and Johnson's textbook reading on classification.
George Washington University
George Washington University: Basics of Cladistic Analysis [Pdf]
This is an advanced level review of cladistic theory and methodology. Some sections are very dense but there are useful sections for teachers and students seeking a better understanding of the topic.
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...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Systematics and the Phylogenetic Revolution
Find out what you know about systematics and the phylogenetic revolution by taking this post test.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill:systematics and the Phylogenetic Revolution
Find out what you know about systematics and the phylogenetic revolution by taking this pre test.
University of California
Ucmp: Monotremes, Egg Laying Mammals
University of California Berkeley offers a short, concise description about egg-laying mammals with links to more in-depth information.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Binomial Nomenclature
Wikipedia, an open-source encyclopedia, offers great information on the classification system used in Biology. Covers the benefits of the system, history, and general information on the whole system together.