So now what we have a general understanding of what Evolution is, we had to start finding connection. TO THE LAB!!
The lab of the day was to investigate the common descent of three completely different species: Gorillas, Chimpanzees, and, well, Humans. Our job was to synthesize our own DNA strand for each of the three species.
We could then compare these strands to the stand of a common ancestor and to each other. After looking at the strands we built, we found that:
Human DNA compared to: Number of Matches
Chimps DNA 15
Gorilla DNA 10
We found that Chimps were more closely related to humans than chimps were, and concluded that the cladogram would pretty much look like this:
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