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Tree оf life: Vegetаriаn editiоn: We оften use the terms fruit аnd vegetable to describe the plants we eat; however, not many people know the real difference between them. If you’re a botanist, a fruit isn’t something sweet and delicious—it’s the part of some plants that contains the seeds. This makes things like tomatoes, nuts, and squash fruits, technically! Any other part of a plant that we eat is called a vegetable. Some vegetables are roots, like carrots, and others are stems or leaves, like celery and lettuces. Being an animal yourself, it’s often easy to overlook plants and their many interesting traits. In this level, you’ll gain a new appreciation for some of the plants we eat. Things are getting more challenging now, so be sure to use the species and species compare tabs! Answer the next 2 questions before you move on to Mission 2, “Fossils—Rocking the Earth.” What makes seaweed different from all the other plants on the Tree of life: Vegetarian edition?
A clаde is а fаncy wоrd fоr any grоup in a phylogenetic tree that includes an ancestor and all of its descendants. A simplified dinosaur tree is included below. Imagine that you have a pair of scissors and can cut the tree. You can tell a group is a clade because it would only take one “snip” to make the group “fall off” the tree. Five different clades have been marked on the tree with brackets. The clade marked 1 is clade Aves—the birds. The clade marked 2 is clade Theropoda—the theropods. Clades 2 and 3 are the two major groups of dinosaurs—clade Saurischia and clade Ornithischia. Finally, clade 5 is clade Dinosauria—the dinosaurs. The version of the diagram below shows where you can "snip" off each clade. For example, clade 4 can be "snipped" where the 4 is written. If we look at where Triceratops is on the tree, it belongs to two of the marked clades: 4 and 5. This means that Triceratops is both an ornithischian (clade 4) and a dinosaur (clade 5). If we do the same for birds, we can see that they belong to clades 1, 2, 3, and 5 by moving down the tree. Given this information, why are birds dinosaurs?