Performance Task: Cladogram of

Species
Adapted from: nhs.newburyport.k12.ma.us

Name: ________________________________________Section: ________________________

Teacher: ______________________________________ Date: ___________________________
Objectives: The student will be able to learn how a cladogram illustrates an evolutionary
hypothesis and makes predictions about evolutionary events. The student will be able to
construct a cladogram from morphological data.

Example:
1. Given these characters and taxa:

2. Draw a Venn diagram. Start with the character that is shared by all the taxa on the outside.
Inside each box, write the taxa that have only that set of characters.

2. Convert the Venn diagram into a cladogram like so:

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1. Convert the following data table into a Venn diagram, and then into a cladogram:

Draw the Venn diagram below.

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2. Convert the Venn diagram into a cladogram.

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