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TCSS Biology Cells Content Map
Unit Essential Question: How do the structures of cells carry out essential life functions?
GPS Standard(s):
SB1. Students will analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells.
1C. Identify the function of the four major macromolecules (carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids).
1B. Explain how enzymes function as catalysts.
1A. Explain the role of cell organelles for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, including the cell membrane, in maintaining homeostasis and cell
reproduction.
3D. Compare and contrast viruses with living organisms.
1D. Explain the impact of water on life processes (i.e., osmosis, diffusion).
3A. Explain the cycling of energy through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration.
Concept 1
Concept 2
Concept 3
Concept 4
Chapter 6.4
Chapter 6.2
Chapter 7.1
Chapter 18.2
GPS: 1C
GPS: 1B
GPS: 1A
GPS: 3D
Macromolecules
Enzymes
Prokaryote & Eukaryote
Viruses
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Question:
Lesson Essential Question:
Lesson Essential Questions
What are the monomer building
blocks of the four
macromolecules?
How do enzymes function as
catalysts?
What are the functions of the four
macromolecules?
How does the lock and key
analogy explain the function of
enzymes and substrates?
How do the functions of the four
macromolecules support life?
Vocabulary 1:
What are the characteristics of
enzymes?
Vocabulary 2:
Carbohydrate, Monosaccharide,
Fatty Acid, Glycerol, Lipid,
Nucleic Acid, Nucleotide, Protein,
Amino Acid, Organic, Monomer,
Polymer
Chemical Reaction, Reactant,
Product, Activation Energy,
Catalyst, Enzyme, Lock and Key,
Substrate, Active Site, Denature,
Enzyme-Substrate Complex,
Bonds
What are the major differences
between prokaryotic and
eukaryotic cells?
What are the characteristics of
viruses?
What are the characteristics of
living organisms?
How are viruses and living
organisms alike and different?
Vocabulary 3:
Vocabulary 4:
Eukaryote, Prokaryote, Unicellular, Viruses, Capsid, Core, Host Cell,
Multicellular, Membrane-Bound
Organelles
Concept 5
Chapter 7
GPS: 1A
Cell Structure & Function
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are the functions of all cellular structures
and organelles?
Why is the importance of cells maintaining
homeostasis?
Vocabulary 5:
Cell Membrane, Cell Organelles, Cell Wall,
Chloroplasts, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi
Apparatus, Lysosome, Mitochondria, Nucleus,
Ribosome, Vacuole, Phospholipid Bilayer
Concept 6
Chapter 7.4 & 7.2
GPS: 1D
Transportation & Homeostasis
Lesson Essential Question
Concept 7
Chapter 8
GPS: 3A
Photosynthesis & Respiration
Lesson Essential Question
How does water impact life processes?
What is photosynthesis?
How do cellular transport processes maintain
homeostasis?
What is cellular respiration?
Vocabulary 6:
Active Transport, Diffusion, Endocytosis,
Exocytosis, Facilitated Diffusion, Homeostasis,
Hypertonic, Hypotonic, Isotonic, Osmosis,
Passive Transport, Selectively Permeable,
Phospholipid Bilayer, Polar Heads, Nonpolar
tails, Solute, Solvent, Solution, Cholesterol,
Carbohydrate Chains, Membrane Protein,
Sodium-Potassium Pump (as example of active
transport)
How is energy cycled through the processes of
photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
Vocabulary 7:
ADP, Aerobic, Anaerobic, ATP, Autotroph,
Chlorophyll, Fermentation, Heterotroph, Light
Dependent Reactions, Light Independent
Reactions, Chloroplast, Mitochondria