Exercise 3: Dog Domestication
In the dog domestication exercises, you will compare DNA sequences of wolves and construct phylogenetic trees. Then you will simulate events that led to the domestication of dogs. By doing so, you will gain a thorough understanding of evolution, population genetics, and domestication.
To complete these exercises, you will use SimBio simulation software and an accompanying workbook, which you will access online. The workbook that comes with the software provides the theoretical background for the activities and the questions that you will complete and submit to your professor for grading.Â
Time requirement:
This simulation exercise takes about three or four hours. The activities are
oken down into six exercises, each of which can be done independently. It is important, however, to follow the sequence provided. If possible, try to find a partner for Exercise 5. If you don’t have a partner, take notes about the time of your dog domestication activities and about where the wolves came from while you run the simulation in Exercise 5. These notes will be helpful for your subsequent interpretation.
Exercise 6: You are not required to answer question 1.1. Instead, answer the following question: Based on the data in the cladogram provided in Exercise 6, do you think all domesticated dogs came from the same lineage of wolves? Or, in other words, was the domestication of dogs a one-time event? You must include one or two examples from the cladogram to justify your answer.
In addition, submit the answers to the ten graded questions online. You will find these questions as a separate item with the exercises in the software package.
The first time you run the SimUText application, make sure to set the country of you
school to Canada using the Change Location link in the upper left.
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