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An Active Textbook Converts "Vision and Tweak" to Vision and Change
Building Trees: Introducing evolutionary concepts by exploring Crassulaceae phylogeny and biogeography

Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:
Estimate phylogenetic trees using diverse data types and phylogenetic models.

Correctly make inferences about evolutionary history and relatedness from the tree diagrams obtained.

Use selected computer programs for phylogenetic analysis.

Use bootstrapping to assess the statistical support for a phylogeny.

Use phylogenetic data to construct, compare, and evaluate the role of geologic processes in shaping the historical and current geographic distributions of a group of organisms.
Implementing active learning approaches into an upper-division biology course
Predicting and classifying effects of insertion and deletion mutations on protein coding regions

Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:
accurately predict effects of frameshift mutations in protein coding regions

conduct statistical analysis to compare expected and observed values

become familiar with accessing and using DNA sequence databases and analysis tools