Facilitator's guide | Activity 2 | Supplementary files
Activity 1
Activity 1: Natural Selection: Student Worksheet [pdf; doc]
Fig. 1.2. Cards of large acorns for use in Activity 1 with five different habitat backgrounds (from top left: brown, desert, floral, green, and white). To generate cards of small acorns for this activity, reduce images by 50%. See Figs. 1.3 and 1.4 for corresponding text for the back of the cards. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 1.3. Background text for cards of large, tasty acorns (low tannin content) for use in Activity 1. To generate text for cards of small acorns for this activity, reduce by 50%. See Fig. 1.4 for corresponding text for the back of cards for bitter acorns (high tannin content). [pdf; doc]
Fig. 1.4. Background text for cards of large, bitter acorns (high tannin content) for use in Activity 1. To generate text for cards of small acorns for this activity, reduce by 50%. See Fig. 1.3 for corresponding text for the back of cards for tasty acorns (low tannin content). [pdf; doc]
Activity 2
Tree slides (Site 1) [pdf; doc]
Tree slides (Site 2) [pdf; doc]
Tree slides (Site 3) [pdf; doc]
Tree slides (Site 4) [pdf; doc]
Tree slides (Site 5) [pdf; doc]
Latin translation of North American oak accounts in Species Plantarum [pdf]
Table 2.1. Sample plant character matrix for two sites and three characters. [pdf; doc]
Table 2.2. Population profiles based on data from Table 2.1. [pdf; doc]
Table 2.3. Aggregated population profile based on data from Table 2.2. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 2.1. Explanation of sample oak species account in Species Plantarum (Linnaeus 1753). [pdf; doc]
Fig. 2.2. Student handout: Sample oak species account in Species Plantarum (Linnaeus 1753). [pdf; doc]
Fig. 2.3. Student handout: Some morphological features of oaks, using white oak as an example (Quercus alba). From: Trees of North Carolina Working Group (TNCWG). 2014–present. Trees of North Carolina. Version 1.0. North Carolina State University, Raleigh. [http://herbarium.ncsu.edu/tnc/] [pdf; doc]
Activity 3
Sample morphological matrix for six species of oaks (Quercus) of North America. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 3.2. UPGMA phenogram of six North American oak species. [pdf; doc]
Activity 4
Templates for nucleobase cards: A | T | G | C | Indel [print at dimensions 3.5" x 2.5"]
Unaligned sequences (segments of ITS) [pdf; doc]
Fig. 4.1. Two classification schemes: Phenetic (left; based on morphological similarity) and phylogenetic (right; based on evolutionary relationships). Diagram after Ridley (2003). [pdf; doc]
Fig. 4.4. Sample alignment of select segments of the nuclear ribosomal internally transcribed spacer (ITS) region of four oak species (Quercus) using ClustalW. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 4.5. Phylogenies of select oak species based on the nuclear ribosomal internally transcribed spacer (ITS). [pdf; doc]
Activity 5
Fig. 5.1. Excerpt from Linnaeus’ treatment of Valeriana in his Species Plantarum (1753), showing grouping of species with a single, two, or three anthers all within his Three-anther class (Triandria). Courtesy of the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 5.2. Illustration of snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) from Bergeret’s Phytonomatotechnie universelle (1873-1874). Bergeret’s name is printed in the top left corner (SEFPIAGOADYZE) and the Linnean name in the bottom right (Antirrhinum majus). Courtesy of Biblioteca Complutense, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 5.3. Classification scheme from Antoine-Laurent Jussieu’s Genera Plantarum (1824). Courtesy of the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 5.4. Flowering plant (angiosperm) tree of life derived from APG III. Courtesy of Freie Universitaet, Berlin. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 5.5. Relationship of three species (A, B, and C) that could be classified in numerous ways, including: (a) consider all species monotypic and thus give each their own genus, (b) consider them all in one genus, (c) consider A and B in the same genus, but place C in a separate genus, (d) consider A and C in the same genus, but place B in a separate genus. Black rectangles represent character states that have diverged. [pdf; doc]
Activity 6
Fig. 6.1. Excerpt of oak treatment from Flore françoise (Lamarck 1779), perhaps the first flora to introduce analytic identification keys. Courtesy of Biblioteca Digital del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 6.2. Cover page of Flora Caroliniana (Walter 1788), the first flora of the Carolinas. Courtesy of Biblioteca Digital del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid.[pdf; doc]
Fig. 6.3. Anatomy of a dichotomous key. Dichotomous keys are composed of two contrasting statements (“leads”), these together referred to as “couplets”. The terminal units can be of any taxonomic rank (e.g., order, family, genus, species, subspecies, etc.), depending on the objective of the key. Terminal taxa (species in the above excerpt) in terminal couplets are typically arranged alphabetically. Characters in each lead must be parallel and contrasting. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 6.4. Sample dichotomous key (based on Krings 2011). Note the alphabetical arrangement of terminal taxa in terminal couplets. [pdf; doc]
Fig. 6.5. Trees of North Carolina: An online and mobile app (TNCWG 2014). [http://herbarium.ncsu.edu/tnc] [pdf; doc]
Tree slides for Option 2 [pdf; doc] Note: Asterisks indicate non-native species.
