Here is a series of short activities in which you can:

Build a phylogenetic tree by hand based on a distance matrix

Compare your tree with the output from the EBI website

Use BLAST to construct a distance tree of a human gene associated with obesity

Phylogeny Resources and Links

• The Tree of Life Project
• Constructing a Phylogenetic Tree Based On Sequence Data from Access Excellence
• Phylogenetic Tree activity using the hemoglobin gene
• Harvard Forest Outreach Activities
• Human Microbiome Project
• Virtual Bacterial ID Laboratory at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Metagenomics and Our Microbial Planet
• American Association for Microbiology Education links with activities, video, audio...

Feel free to contact me if you have questions, suggestions...

abiddle@microbio.umass.edu