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BIO.1 Interactions with Organisms and the Environment

• BIO.1.1 Plan and carry out an investigation to analyze and interpret data to determine how biotic and abiotic factors can affect the stability and change of a population.

  • Patterns of population growth (B-O.4)
  • Factors affecting carrying capacity (B-O.)
  • Factors affecting Yellowstone bison population dynamics (B-O.)
  • Kelp forests: factors affecting biodiversity (B-P.1)

• BIO.1.2 Develop and use a model to explain cycling of matter and flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem.

  • Interpret a Serengeti food web (B-O.1)
  • Interpret an Antarctic food web (B-O.2)
  • Trophic levels and energy pyramids (B-O.)

• BIO.1.3 Analyze and interpret data to determine the effects of photosynthesis and cellular respiration on the scale and proportion of carbon reservoirs in the carbon cycle.

  • The carbon cycle: biosphere processes and interactions (B-O.3)

• BIO.1.4 Develop an argument from evidence for how ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions.

  • Ecological succession (B-O.)

• BIO.1.5 Design a solution that reduces the impact caused by human activities on the environment and biodiversity.

BIO.2 Structure and Function of Life

• BIO.2.1 Construct an explanation based on evidence that all organisms are primarily composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, and that the matter taken into an organism is broken down and recombined to make macromolecules necessary for life functions.

  • Structure and function: carbohydrates (B-C.1)
  • Structure and function: lipids (B-C.2)
  • Structure and function: proteins (B-C.3)
  • Structure and function: nucleic acids (B-C.4)

• BIO.2.2 Ask questions to plan and carry out an investigation to determine how (a) the structure and function of cells, (b) the proportion and quantity of organelles, and (c) the shape of cells result in cells with specialized functions.

  • Cells and cell theory (B-D.)
  • Identify functions of plant cell parts (B-D.1)
  • Identify functions of animal cell parts (B-D.2)
  • Plant cell diagrams: label parts (B-D.3)
  • Animal cell diagrams: label parts (B-D.4)

• BIO.2.3 Develop and use a model to illustrate the cycling of matter and flow of energy through living things by the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

  • The chemistry of photosynthesis (B-G.1)
  • The chemistry of cellular respiration (B-G.2)

• BIO.2.4 Plan and carry out an investigation to determine how cells maintain stability within a range of changing conditions by the transport of materials across the cell membrane.

  • Structure and function of the cell membrane (B-E.1)
  • Types of passive transport (B-E.2)
  • Osmosis (B-E.3)
  • Active transport (B-E.)

• BIO.2.5 Construct an explanation about the role of mitosis in the production, growth, and maintenance of systems within complex organisms.

  • Introduction to cell division (B-H.1)
  • The cell cycle (B-H.2)
  • Describe phases of mitosis and the cell cycle (B-H.3)
  • DNA replication (B-I.)

• BIO.2.6 Ask questions to develop an argument for how the structure and function of interacting organs and organ systems, that make up multicellular organisms, contribute to homeostasis within the organism.

  • Organization in the human body: the heart and the circulatory system (B-F.1)

• BIO.2.7 Plan and carry out an investigation to provide evidence of homeostasis and that feedback mechanisms maintain stability in organisms.

  • Homeostasis and feedback loops (B-F.2)

BIO.3 Genetic Patterns

• BIO.3.1 Construct an explanation for how the structure of DNA is replicated, and how DNA and RNA code for the structure of proteins which regulate and carry out the essential functions of life and result in specific traits.

  • Structure and function: nucleic acids (B-C.4)
  • Introduction to the genetic code (B-I.1)
  • DNA replication (B-I.)
  • Protein synthesis: transcription (B-J.)
  • Protein synthesis: translation (B-J.)
  • Read a codon wheel (B-J.1)
  • Read a codon table (B-J.2)
  • Use a codon wheel to transcribe and translate DNA sequences (B-J.3)
  • Use a codon table to transcribe and translate DNA sequences (B-J.4)

• BIO.3.2 Use computational thinking and patterns to make predictions about the expression of specific traits that are passed in genes on chromosomes from parents to offspring.

  • Genetics vocabulary: genotype and phenotype (B-L.1)
  • Genetics vocabulary: dominant and recessive (B-L.2)
  • Punnett squares: Mendelian inheritance (B-L.3)
  • Punnett squares: incomplete dominance and codominance (B-L.4)
  • Punnett squares: multiple alleles (B-L.5)

• BIO.3.3 Engage in argument from evidence that inheritable genetic variation is caused during the formation of gametes.

  • Gene mutations (B-J.)
  • Sexual reproduction and genetic variation: part I (B-K.1)
  • Sexual reproduction and genetic variation: part II (B-K.)

• BIO.3.4 Plan and carry out an investigation and use computational thinking to explain the variation and patterns in distribution of the traits expressed in a population.

• BIO.3.5 Evaluate design solutions where biotechnology was used to identify and/or modify genes in order to solve (effect) a problem.

BIO.4 Evolutionary Change

• BIO.4.1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to identify the patterns in the evidence that support biological evolution.

  • Evaluate fossil evidence of evolution (B-M.1)
  • Evaluate anatomical and molecular evidence of evolution (B-M.2)

• BIO.4.2 Construct an explanation based on evidence that natural selection is a primary cause of evolution.

  • Source analysis: Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection (B-M.)

• BIO.4.3 Analyze and interpret data to identify patterns that explain the claim that organisms with an advantageous heritable trait tend to increase in proportion to organisms lacking this trait.

  • Construct explanations of natural selection (B-M.3)

• BIO.4.4 Engage in argument from evidence that changes in environmental conditions may cause increases in the number of individuals of some species, the emergence of new species over time, and/or the extinction of other species.

• BIO.4.5 Evaluate design solutions that can best solve a real-world problem caused by natural selection and adaptation of populations.