This course will consist of the following units of study:
COURSE CONTENT:
A. The Study of Life: who uses biology; tools of biology; metric measurements used in science; scientific method used in solving a problem.
B. Features of Life and the Cell: features of living things; cell structures and functions; cell diffusion and osmosis; cell organization to form an organism.
C. Classification: why and how living things are classified; Aristotle and Linnaeus; scientific names; contrast between the 2 kingdom and 5 kingdom systems.
D. Simple Organisms: viruses; monerans; protists; fungi.
E. The Plants: grouping of; traits of nonvascular plants & vascular plants; importance.
F. The Animals: what an animal is; classification; invertebrates and chordates.
G. Genetics: inheritance of traits; human genetics; DNA.
H. Evolution: changes in living things over time; Darwin; plate tectonics
I. Ecology: populations and communities; ecosystems and biomes; solving ecological problems.
To complete this course successfully, students will be required to demonstrate a satisfactory or higher level of proficiency and understanding in:
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
A. How biology is part of everyday life;, how a scientist works; how measurements are made.
B. The basic features of life common to all living things; the stucture and function of the cell.
C. How classification is important to everyday life and biology; the universal system of classification.
D. The basic features of the major groups of organisms in the moneran, protist, and fungi kingdoms.
E. The basic features of the major groups of organisms in the plant kingdom.
F. The basic features of the major groups of organisms in the animal kingdom.
G. How characteristics of organisms are transferred; single and multiple trait genetic crosses (sex linked, allele-chromosome); genetic disorders; genetic engineering via an understanding of the structure and function of DNA.
H. The factual concept of evolution (over time life forms living in a population evolve due to naturally occurring subtle and catastrophic changes in the organisms and/or environments); the modern theories of the mechanisms and evidence for evolution.
I. The interrelationships between organisms living in a community and their environment;, the concepts of how organisms recycle carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen within ecosystems in biomes on earth; the ecological impact that human technology has had on earth; the kinds of careers associated with the biological sciences.
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