Cladogram Project
This is our story for the cladogram. This explains the timeline and the steps.
Evolution of Tools
It all started from tools which varied as plastic with different colors such as orange
and white then it evolved into metal because it was to weak to withstand predators. Later on it evolved making them have the trait of being made of metal to face the fierce heat waves with could easily clean the tool population at the time. Later on they evolved to be shiny to attract a mate. Then they evolved to becoming solid so they wouldn't have holes in them and be able to burrow and hide easier. Then they became more threaded and varied as non thread, round top points, large rods, small rods, and dome to burrow into the ground more efficiently. They became pointed and varied in being no point and round top to defend themselves from predators better. Evolved to have the thread starting at the top and varied with delayed thread, round top, and black to burrow themselves even more. Then the evolved more to becoming Plus Sign on Top which varied as hooks which varies in color as gold or white. The final stage of the evolution of tools so far was round tops which could vary as flat top with variety of colors such as gold, grey, and blue for camouflage.
The Project...
What we did in this project was we took a bin of screws and nails and other tools and we put them into different categories based on look or size or shape or color and then make a cladogram to categorize them in the order they "evolved".
Cladogram: A Graph-like organizational tool that show how a species evolved and includes the traits that are different after each instalment. We used this in the project because that was the project. To make a cladogram and a story that goes with it.
Reflection...
One thing that I learned was that I learned what a cladogram was and how you use it to see the order of evolution. One thing that I found interesting was that even though we were all given basically the same materials, each group came up with a different way to make them evolve.