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What Did T. rex Taste Like? – An Online Cladistics Activity

To complete the tutorial
1. Go to http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/Trex/navigation.html
2. Follow the on-screen instructions to explore Folders #1-5.Record your data from Folder #4
in the tables below.
3. Answer the questions on page 3 and complete the Folder #5 Special Assignment.
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1. What
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cladogram?
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2. Why does the activity suggest that T. rex probably tasted like chicken? In your
answer, please be sure to include the SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (hint: check out your
tables on page 1).

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3. Lineage might have been a new term for you. Which is the best definition for lineage?
a) A single line showing age.
b) A continuous line of descent.
c) A set of parallel lines.
4. Within this folder, you compared the history of a single family to the history of all life. What
are some things that they have in common?
a) Both have a point of common ancestry.
b) In both, descendents inherit features from previous ancestors.
c) In both, descendents more closely resemble their recent ancestors than more distant
ancestors.
d) All of the above.
e) None of the above.

5. Which feature do humans, hares, caimans, and parrots share that the other three lineages
did not inherit?

a) Bony skeleton
b) Hair
c) Amniotic egg
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 SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT – FOLDER FIVE
Solving T. rex’s Identitiy Crisis

Examine at least two of the questions below:

- Did T. rex have an amniotic egg?

- Was T. rex warm-blooded?
- Could T. rex have had feathers?
- Did T. rex have color vision?
- How many chambers were in T. rex’s heart?
- Could T. rex sing to its offspring?

To be completed, IN COMPLETE SENTENCES, on the lines below/ on next page

Using your completed tables on p. 1 and the chart seen from the previous page:

For one of the Questions you chose:

A. Is it possible to answer this question with the data provided?

B. If it is not possible, what information is needed to be able to answer the question?
C. If it is possible, guess as to which feature T. rex possessed? Support your guess with evidence? In your
justification, make sure that you include information about common ancestors and shared inherited
features? What other evidence would you look for to support or refute your hypothesis?

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For the second of the Questions you chose:
A. Is it possible to answer this question with the data provided?
B. If it is not possible, what information is needed to be able to answer the question?
C. If it is possible, guess as to which feature T. rex possessed? Support your guess with evidence? In your
justification, make sure that you include information about common ancestors and shared inherited
features? What other evidence would you look for to support or refute your hypothesis?

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