Beyond Labz

The purpose of the Systematics laboratory is to allow students to classify a selected species into taxa using the traits or characters of the species. The...

The purpose of the Systematics laboratory is to allow students to classify a selected species into taxa using the traits or characters of the species. As ...

To use the laboratory, students can first select a species from the species menu to act as a reference, but this is not a required step for using the labora...

At the core of the virtual biology environment is the Species Menu, which allows students to select a species and perform experiments on that species. Not...

The taxonomy is displayed in the laboratory simultaneously as a traditional rank-based list but also as a tree structure that branches to show the relations...

The Setup menu is used to select the classification scheme that will be used to define the taxonomy of the species. There is a checkbox to choose between a ...

To the right of the Taxonomy Window is a list of species viewed either as thumbnail images or by common name and which is divided into groups of Included sp...

The Traits section of Live Data lists the traits or characters for a selected taxon after clickong on the taxon. The traits are used to decide to which taxo...

The Glossary section of Live Data contains a list of definitions for terms that are used to define the traits or characters for each taxon in the scheme. A ...