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Structure and Function of Plants and Animals: Animal Form and Function
Unit/Chapter Title: Animal Form and Function/ Chapters 11, 40-51
Course: AP Biology
Essential Questions:
•How are responses and process in biological organisms controlled by feedback mechanisms?
•How do organisms respond to changes in their external environments?
•What mechanisms regulate the timing and coordination of physiological events and behavior of organisms?
•How do changes within and between biological systems take place?
•How do the interactions between an organism’s constituent parts cause the organism to exhibit complex properties?
Unit Components
Basic Principles of Circulation and
Animal Form and Gas Exchange
Function / Animal
Nutrition
Unit Vocabulary/
Concepts/Topics
Unit Vocabulary/
Concepts/Topics
Tissue: epithelial, Open circulatory
system
connective,
muscle
Closed
circulatory
Organ
system: artery,
capillary, vein
Organ system
Homeostasis: set
point, negative
feedback,
positive feedback
Cardiac cycle
Blood pressure:
systole, diastole
Unit Overview
Immune System
Unit Vocabulary/
Concepts/Topics
Innate immunity:
barrier defense,
cellular defense,
inflammatory
response, natural
killer cells
Acquired
immunity:
pathogen,
antigen,
antibody,
primary immune
Osmoregulation and
Excretion /
Hormones and the
Endocrine System
Unit Vocabulary/
Concepts/Topics
Osmoregulation:
ADH, rennin,
angiotensin,
aldosterone
Excretion:
nitrogenous waste,
protonephridia/flam
e bulb system,
metanephridia,
malphigian tubules,
kidneys
Animal
Reproduction /
Animal
Development
Neurons,
Synapses,
Signaling /
Nervous Systems /
Sensory and
Motor
Mechanisms
Animal Behavior
Unit Vocabulary/
Concepts/Topics
Unit Vocabulary/
Concepts/Topics
Unit Vocabulary/
Concepts/Topics
Asexual
reproduction:
fission, budding,
fragmentation,
pathenogensis
Receptor, neuron,
neurotransmitter,
Behavior
Sexual
reproduction:
fertilization,
gonads,
spermatogenesis,
oogenesis,
ovulation,
Nerve impulse:
membrane
potential, action
potential, synapse
Ethology
Innate behavior
Circadian rhythms
Nerve net
Signaling
Cephalization
Learning:
impringing,
habituation,
Central nervous
Essential nutrient
Blood
Ingestion,
digestion,
absorption,
elimination,
gastrovascular
cavity, alimentary
canal
Respiration:
countercurrent
exchange,
tracheal system,
lungs, breathing,
hemoglobin
Digestive system
response,
secondary
immune
response,
humoral immune
response, cellmediated
immune
response, active
immunity,
passive immunity
Allergy,
autoimmune
disease, HIV
Nephron: flitration,
reabsorption,
secretion, excretion
menstrual cycle,
ovarian cycle,
pregnancy
system
Peripheral
nervous system
Endocrine system:
glands, hormone
Embryonic
development:
cleavage,
gastrulation,
organogenesis
Brain
Cell-surface
receptors,
intracellular
receptors
Sensory receptors
Mechanoreceptor
Taste
associative
Foraging
Mating
Agonistic
Altruism
Inclusive fitness
Eye: compound,
single-lens
Skeletal muscle:
muscle
contraction,
sliding-filament
model
Skeletal systems
AP College Board Frameworks
2.C.1 Positive feedback mechanisms amplify responses in biological organisms.
2.C.2 Organisms use negative feedback mechanisms to maintain their internal environments and respond to external environmental conditions.
2.C.3 Organisms constantly respond to changes in their external environments.
2.D.3 Biological systems are affected by disruptions in their homeostasis.
2.D.4 Plants and animals have a variety of chemical defenses against infections that affect homeostasis.
2.E.1 Timing and coordination of several events are necessary for the normal development of an organism and the events require regulation by multiple
mechanisms.
2.E.2 Timing and coordination of physiological events are regulated by multiple mechanisms.
2.E.3 Timing and coordination of behavior is regulated by several mechanisms.
3.D.1 Cell communication involves processes resulting from evolution that are shared common features.
3.D.2 Cells communicate with each other through direct contact with other cells or from a distance via chemical signaling.
3.D.3 Signal transduction pathways link signal reception with cellular response.
3.D.4 Errors in normal signal transduction may alter cellular response.
3.E.1 Organisms exchange information with each other in response to internal changes and external cues, which may change behavior.
3.E.2 Multi-cellular animals have nervous systems that detect external and internal signals, transmit and integrate information, and produce responses.
3.E.3 Individuals can act on information and communicate it to others.
4.A.4 Organisms exhibit complex properties due to interactions between their constituent parts.
I Can……
• Predict how positive feedback mechanisms initiate responses and amplify activities and processes in biological organisms
• Predict the response of positive feedback systems in terms of the mechanisms that initiate responses and amplify activities and
processes in biological organisms
• Justify that positive feedback mechanisms initiate responses and amplify activities and process in biological organisms
• Predict the effect(s) on a biological system at the molecular, physiological, or organismal levels when given a scenario in which one or
more components within a negative regulatory system are altered
• Describe the connection between organisms and negative feedback to maintain internal environments
• Read and analyze data that show how a change in a gene or physiological response as the concentration of a regulatory molecule is
altered
• Evaluate and justify, based on data analysis, if a biological system is regulated via negative feedback
• Evaluate and justify, based on data analysis, the affect of a change on the homeostatic state of a biological organism regarding
direction of movement of the system relative to the equilibrium state
• Use representations or models to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the effects of disruptions to homeostasis in biological systems
• Create representations and models to show that plants have a variety of non-specific immune defenses against infections
• Connect concepts that describe mechanisms that regulate the timing and coordination of physiological events in plants
• Connect concepts that describe mechanisms that regulate the timing and coordination of behavioral events in plants
• Design a plan for collecting data to support the claim that the timing and coordination of physiological events in plants require
regulation
• Justify claims with evidence to show that timing and coordination of several events are necessary for normal development in an
organism, and that these events require regulation by multiple mechanisms
• Use a graph or diagram or quantitatively or qualitatively solve problems that involve timing and coordination of events necessary for
normal development in an organism
• Describe using representations and appropriate models the basic chemical processes by which cells communicate
• Construct explanations and create representations of cell communication through direct contact or from a distance through chemical
signaling
• Create a model to describe links between signal reception and cellular responses across multiple representations
• Model or describe how errors in normal signal transduction alter cellular response
• Analyze and evaluate evidence used to support the fact that organisms exchange information with each other in response to internal /
external changes thereby causing a change in behavior
• Create a visual representation that models and organism’s change in behavior due to the exchanges among organisms in response to
internal and external stimuli
• Justify claims about how nervous systems in multicellular organisms detect external and internal signals, transmit and integrate
information, and produce responses
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Create a visual representation with adequate notations of complex nervous systems and how these nervous systems detect external
and internal signals, transmit and integrate information, and produce responses
Describe, using representations and appropriate models, how organisms exchange information with each other in response to internal
changes or environmental cues
Evaluate scientific questions concerning organisms which exhibit complex properties due to the interactions of their constituent parts
Predict the effects of a change in the constituent parts on the organism’s functionality