Skill plan for the Redesigned STAAR - Biology
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Biological Structures, Functions, and Processes
The student knows that biological structures at multiple levels of organization perform specific functions and processes that affect life.
B.5B: Compare and contrast prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, including their complexity, and compare and contrast scientific explanations for cellular complexity.
B.5B: Compare and contrast prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, including their complexity, and compare and contrast scientific explanations for cellular complexity.
The student knows how an organism grows and the importance of cell differentiation.
B.6C: Relate disruptions of the cell cycle to how they lead to the development of diseases such as cancer.
B.6C: Relate disruptions of the cell cycle to how they lead to the development of diseases such as cancer.
The student knows the significance of matter cycling, energy flow, and enzymes in living organisms.
B.11B: Investigate and explain the role of enzymes in facilitating cellular processes.
B.11B: Investigate and explain the role of enzymes in facilitating cellular processes.
The student knows that multicellular organisms are composed of multiple systems that interact to perform complex functions.
B.12B: Explain how the interactions that occur among systems that perform functions of transport, reproduction, and response in plants are facilitated by their structures.
B.12B: Explain how the interactions that occur among systems that perform functions of transport, reproduction, and response in plants are facilitated by their structures.
Mechanisms of Genetics
The student knows the role of nucleic acids in gene expression.
B.7C: Identify and illustrate changes in DNA and evaluate the significance of these changes.
B.7C: Identify and illustrate changes in DNA and evaluate the significance of these changes.
The student knows the role of nucleic acids and the principles of inheritance and variation of traits in Mendelian and non-Mendelian genetics.
B.8B: Predict possible outcomes of various genetic combinations using monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, including non-Mendelian traits of incomplete dominance, codominance, sex-linked traits, and multiple alleles.
Introduction to genetics
Punnett squares
B.8B: Predict possible outcomes of various genetic combinations using monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, including non-Mendelian traits of incomplete dominance, codominance, sex-linked traits, and multiple alleles.
Introduction to genetics
Punnett squares
Biological Evolution
The student knows evolutionary theory is a scientific explanation for the unity and diversity of life that has multiple lines of evidence.
B.9B: Examine scientific explanations for varying rates of change such as gradualism, abrupt appearance, and stasis in the fossil record.
B.9B: Examine scientific explanations for varying rates of change such as gradualism, abrupt appearance, and stasis in the fossil record.
The student knows evolutionary theory is a scientific explanation for the unity and diversity of life that has multiple mechanisms.
B.10B: Analyze and evaluate how the elements of natural selection, including inherited variation, the potential of a population to produce more offspring than can survive, and a finite supply of environmental resources, result in differential reproductive success.
B.10B: Analyze and evaluate how the elements of natural selection, including inherited variation, the potential of a population to produce more offspring than can survive, and a finite supply of environmental resources, result in differential reproductive success.
B.10C: Analyze and evaluate how natural selection may lead to speciation.
B.10C: Analyze and evaluate how natural selection may lead to speciation.
Interdependence within Environmental Systems
The student knows that interactions at various levels of organization occur within an ecosystem to maintain stability.
B.13D: Explain how environmental change, including change due to human activity, affects biodiversity and analyze how changes in biodiversity impact ecosystem stability.
B.13D: Explain how environmental change, including change due to human activity, affects biodiversity and analyze how changes in biodiversity impact ecosystem stability.
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