Date Uploaded
Spring 4-3-2024
Activity source
Original
Summary
The purpose of this assignment is for students to practice constructing phylogenies using the principle of parsimony. In this activity, students will use an AI Image Generator to create a grid of images of the same organism and identify a series of traits that vary to build a possible phylogenetic tree.
Student Learning Objectives
- Describe the concept of parsimony.
- Understand the difference between homology and homoplasy.
- Explain why shared derived characters are useful in establishing a phylogeny, while shared ancestral characters are not.
Assignment Type
Both in-class and out-of-class
Course level
100
Used in course?
no
Type of Student-AI Collaboration Required
Human-generated with AI assistance or revision
Type of AI Task(s)
Visual Design/Image Generation
Second Type of AI Task
Other (enter in Notes to Administrator field)
Uploader/Author Affiliation
Graduate Student
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Document Type
Teaching Material
Recommended Citation
Garnett, Jacqueline, "Teaching Evolutionary Principles with AI Image Generators" (2024). Generative AI Teaching Activities. 3.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/ai_teaching/3