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Today in lab you tested the evolutionary hypothesis based on morphological data using
molecular data. Please download this document, delete the green text, answer each question as
best as you can, change your text answers to black and bold, check your answers, and submit
the document on Canvas. You may discuss the lab report with your lab group members but all
answers must be your own.
1. Find the scientific names of your five favorite plant foods. Simply search ‘YOUR FOOD
scientific name’ (i.e. ‘almond scientific name’ or ‘tomato scientific name’ ) in Google.
Food #1: Almond Prunus dulcis
Food #2: Tomato Solanum lycopersicum
Food #3: Banana Musa acuminata
Food #4: Spinach Spinacia oleracea
Food #5: Cherry Prunus avium
2. Choose a physical trait which all of your plants share and compare this trait in each of your
plants. Which physical trait did you use? How does this trait differ between your plants?
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Almond trees produce beautiful pink or white flowers with five petals. They are
similar in appearance to cherry blossoms.
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Tomato plants produce small, yellow, star-shaped flowers with five petals. These
flowers are typically not very showy.
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Banana plants have large, pendulous flowers in shades of yellow, pink, or red.
These flowers are distinctly different from the typical flower shape and are often
hidden within the large banana bunch.
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Spinach plants produce small, hidden flowers with greenish-yellow to
greenish-white color. They are not typically the focus of cultivation since spinach
is grown for its leaves.
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Cherry flowers have five petals that can be white or light pink in color.
3. Based on the physical trait that you selected. Which two foods do you think will be most
closely related? Why?
Based on the physical trait of flower structure, the two plant foods that appear to be most
closely related are almond and cherry. Both almond and cherry trees produce flowers
with similar appearances, having five petals and being pink or white. These similarities in
flower structure
4. Which two foods do you think will be least closely related? Why?
Bananas and almonds are likely the least closely related among the mentioned foods.
Bananas feature large, hanging, and uniquely shaped flowers that are often hidden within
the banana bunch and almonds produce pink or white flowers with a more common and
recognizable structure, akin to cherry blossoms. These notable differences in flower
structure suggest that bananas and almonds are less closely related compared to the
other foods.
5. Paste a screenshot of your phylogenetic tree here.
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