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Title: Exercise
Caption: Identify the major branches in the Tree of Life.
In this animation you will explore the Tree of Life, how molecular genetics are used to establish evolutionary relationships, and why there is so much disagreement about how the Tree of Life should be structured.
Keywords: Tree of Life, evolutionary relationships, domains, Bacteria, Eukarya, Archaea, Kingdoms, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia, DNA, ribosomal RNA, phylogeny, lateral gene transfer