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Subject
10th Grade Biology
MONTH
September
ESSENTIAL
QUESTIONS
What are the seven
properties of life?
TOPIC
Principles of Cell
Biology
CONTENT
(Terminology)
Biology and You:
A. Themes of Biology
What are the tiny
structures that make up
all living organisms?
What impact does
scientific research have
on the environment and
society?
B. Biology in Your World
What are the stages of the
scientific process?
C. Scientific Processes
What is the difference
between an atom and an
element?
SKILLS
1. Relate the seven properties of life to a
living organism.
2. Identify the tiny structures that make up
all living organisms.
3. Differentiate between reproduction and
heredity and between metabolism and
homeostasis.
4. Evaluate the impact of scientific research
on the environment and society.
5. Explain the primary task of the Human
Genome Project.
6. Describe the contributions of scientists in
fighting AIDS and cancer.
7. Define the term gene therapy.
8. Describe the stages common to scientific
investigations.
9. Distinguish between forming a
hypothesis and making a prediction.
10. Differentiate a control group from an
experimental group and an independent
variable from a dependent variable.
11. Define the word theory as used by a
scientist.
Chemistry of Life:
A. Nature of Matter
How can you distinguish
an acid from a base?
What are the components
of DNA and RNA?
B. Water and Solutions
What is the function of
ATP?
C. Chemistry of Cells
D. Energy and Chemical
Reactions
1. Differentiate between atoms and
elements.
2. Analyze how compounds are formed.
3. Distinguish between covalent bonds,
hydrogen bonds, and ionic bonds.
4. Analyze the properties of water.
5. Describe how water dissolves substances.
6. Distinguish between acids and bases.
7. Summarize the characteristics of organic
compounds.
8. Compare the structures and function of
different types of biomolecules.
9. Describe the components of DNA and
RNA.
10. State the main role of ATP in cells.
11. Evaluate the importance of energy to
living things.
12. Relate energy and chemical reactions.
13. Describe the role of enzymes in
chemical reactions.
14. Identify the effect of enzymes on food
molecules.
STANDARDS
ASSESSMENT
N.1.2
N.2.1
S.1.1
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
L.1.1
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
1
What do scientists use to
visualize cells?
Cell Structure:
A. Looking at Cells
What are the three parts
of the cell theory?
Why do cells need to be
relatively small?
What are cell membranes
composed of?
B. Cell Features
What role does a nucleus
play in cellular activities?
C. Cell Organelles
October
How does passive
transport differ from
active transport?
B. Active Transport
How does the metabolism
of autotrophs compare
with that of heterotrophs?
What role does ATP play
in metabolism?
Where does
photosynthesis take place
in plants?
B. Photosynthesis
What three environmental
L.1.1
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
L.1.1
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
1. Relate concentration gradients, diffusion,
and equilibrium.
2. Predict the direction of water movement
into and out of cells.
3. Describe the importance of ion channels
in passive transport.
4. Identify the role of carrier proteins in
facilitated diffusion.
5. Compare active transport with passive
transport.
6. Describe the importance of the sodiumpotassium pump.
7. Distinguish between endocytosis and
exocytosis.
8. Identify three ways that receptor proteins
can change the activity of a cell.
Photosynthesis and
Cellular Respiration:
A. Energy and Living
Things
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
6. Group Project
1. Describe how scientists measure the
length of objects.
2. Relate magnification and resolution in
the use of microscopes.
3. Analyze how light microscopes function.
4. Compare light microscopes with electron
microscopes.
5. Describe the scanning tunneling
microscope.
6. List the three parts of the cell theory.
7. Determine why cells must be relatively
small.
8. Compare the structure of prokaryotic
cells with that of eukaryotic cells.
9. Describe the structure of cell membranes.
10. Describe the role of the nucleus in cell
activities.
11. Analyze the role of internal membranes
in protein production.
12. Summarize the importance of
mitochondria in eukaryotic cells.
13. Identify three structures in plant cells
that are absent from animal cells.
Cells and Their
Environment:
A. Passive Transport
L.1.1
1. Analyze the flow of energy through
living systems.
2. Compare the metabolism of autotrophs
with that of heterotrophs.
3. Describe the role of ATP in metabolism.
4. Describe how energy is released from
ATP.
5. Summarize how energy is captured from
sunlight in the first stage of photosynthesis.
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factors can affect the rate
of photosynthesis?
C. Cellular Respiration
November
What is the difference
between a gene, a DNA
molecule, a chromosome,
and a chromatid?
Chromosomes and Cell
Reproduction:
What are the five phases
of the cell cycle?
What are the four stages
of mitosis?
B. The Cell Cycle
C. Mitosis and Cytokinesis
What is the difference
between asexual and
sexual reproduction?
L.1.1
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
L.1.1
L.2.2
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
A. Chromosomes
How do haploid and
diploid cells differ?
What are the stages of
meiosis?
6. Analyze the function of electron transport
chains in the second stage of
photosynthesis.
7. Relate the Calvin cycle to carbon
dioxide fixation in the third stage of
photosynthesis.
8. Identify three environmental factors that
affect the rate of photosynthesis.
9. Summarize how glucose is broken down
in the first stage of cellular respiration.
10. Describe how ATP is made in the
second stage of cellular respiration.
11. Identify the role of fermentation in the
second stage of cellular respiration.
12. Evaluate the importance of oxygen in
aerobic respiration.
Principles of
Genetics
1. Identify four examples of cell division in
eukaryotes and one example in prokaryotes.
2. Differentiate between a gene, a DNA
molecule, a chromosome, and a chromatid.
3. Differentiate between homologous
chromosomes, autosomes, and sex
chromosomes.
4. Compare haploid and diploid cells.
5. Predict how changes in chromosome
number of structure can affect development.
6. Identify the major events that
characterize each of the five phases of the
cell cycle.
7. Describe how the cell cycle is controlled
in eukaryotic cells.
8. Relate the role of the cell cycle to the
onset of cancer.
9. Describe the structure and function of the
spindle during mitosis.
10. Summarize the events of the four stages
of mitosis.
11. Differentiate cytokinesis in animal and
plant cells.
Meiosis and Sexual
Reproduction:
A. Meiosis
B. Sexual Reproduction
1. Summarize the events that occur during
meiosis.
2. Relate crossing-over, independent
assortment, and random fertilization to
genetic variation.
3. Compare spermatogenesis and oogenesis.
4. Differentiate between asexual and sexual
reproduction.
5. Identify three types of asexual
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reproduction.
6. Evaluate the relative genetic and
evolutionary advantages and disadvantages
of asexual and sexual reproduction.
7. Differentiate between the three major
sexual life cycles found in eukaryotes.
December
Who is the father of
heredity?
Mendel and Heredity:
A. The Origins of Genetics
Why is a garden pea a
good subject for genetic
study?
What is the difference
between a Punnett square
and a test cross?
B. Mendel’s Theory
What five factors
influence patterns of
heredity?
C. Studying Heredity
Why do mutations cause
genetic disorders?
What are some examples
of genetic disorders?
D. Complex Patterns of
Heredity
What is the basic building
block of DNA?
What three components
make up a nucleotide?
1. Identify the investigator whose studies
formed the basis of modern genetics.
2. List characteristics that make the garden
pea a good subject for genetic study.
3. Summarize the three major steps of
Gregor Mendel’s garden pea experiment.
4. Relate the ratios that Mendel observed in
his crosses to his data.
5. Describe the four major hypotheses
Mendel developed.
6. Define the terms homozygous,
heterozygous, genotype, and phenotype.
7. Compare Mendel’s two laws of heredity.
8. Predict the results of monohybrid genetic
crosses by using Punnett squares.
9. Apply a test cross to determine the
genotype of an organism with a dominant
phenotype.
10. Predict the results of monohybrid
genetic crosses by using probabilities.
11. Analyze a simple pedigree.
12. Identify five factors that influence
patterns of heredity.
13. Describe how mutations can cause
genetic disorders.
14. List two genetic disorders, and describe
their causes and symptoms.
15. Evaluate the benefits of genetic
counseling.
DNA: The Genetic
Material:
A. Identifying the Genetic
Material
How does DNA
replicate?
B. The Structure of DNA
1. Relate Griffith’s conclusions to the
observations he made during the
transformation experiments.
2. Summarize the steps involved in Avery’s
transformation experiments, and state the
results.
3. Evaluate the results of the Hershey and
Chase experiment.
4. Describe the three components of a
nucleotide.
5. Develop a model of the structure of a
DNA molecule.
6. Evaluate the contributions of Chargaff,
Franklin, and Wilkins in helping Watson
and Crick determine the double-helical
N.2.1
L.2.1
L.2.2
S.1.2
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
6. Power Point
Presentation
L.1.1
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
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C. The Replication of DNA
January
How Proteins Are Made:
A. From Genes to Proteins
B. Gene Regulation and
Structure
How can the Earth’s age
be determined?
Principles of
Evolution
A. How Did Life Begin
How do prokaryotes
differ from eukaryotes?
How have mass
extinctions affected the
evolution of life on land?
B. The Evolution of
Cellular Life
Which animals lived on
land first?
C. Life Invaded the Land
What observations led
Darwin to conclude that
The Theory of Evolution:
L.1.1
L.2.1
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
L.2.2
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
L.2.2
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
1. Compare the structure of RNA with that
of DNA.
2. Summarize the process of transcription.
3. Relate the role of codons to the sequence
of amino acids that results after translation.
4. Outline the major steps of translation.
5. Discuss the evolutionary significance of
the genetic code.
6. Describe how the lac operon is turned on
or off.
7. Summarize the role of transcription
factors in regulating eukaryotic gene
expression.
8. Describe how eukaryotic genes are
organized.
9. Evaluate three ways that point mutations
can alter genetic material.
History of Life on Earth:
What is the difference
between unicellularity
and multicellularity?
February
structure of DNA.
7. Relate the role of the base-pairing rules
to the structure of DNA.
8. Summarize the process of DNA
replication.
9. Describe how errors are corrected during
DNA replication.
10. Compare the number of replication
forks in prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA.
1. Summarize how radioisotopes can be
used in determining Earth’s age.
2. Compare two models that describe how
the chemicals of life originated.
3. Describe how cellular organization might
have begun.
4. Recognize the importance that a
mechanism for heredity has to the
development of life.
5. Distinguish between the two groups of
prokaryotes.
6. Describe the evolution of eukaryotes.
7. Recognize an evolutionary advance first
seen in protists.
8. Summarize how mass extinctions have
affected the evolution of life on Earth.
9. Relate the development of ozone to the
adaptation of life to the land.
10. Identify the first multicellular organisms
to live on land.
11. Name the first animals to live on land.
12. List the first vertebrates to leave the
oceans.
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species evolve?
A. The Theory of Evolution
by Natural Selection
What is natural selection?
B. Evidence of Evolution
C. Examples of Evolution
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
Classification of
Organisms:
What are the seven levels
of biological
classification?
A. Categories of Biological
Classification
What characteristics do
biologist use to classify
organisms?
B. How Biologists Classify
Organisms
March
How do populations
grown and disperse?
1. Identify several observations that led
Darwin to conclude that species evolve.
2. Relate the process of natural selection to
its outcome.
3. Summarize the main points of Darwin’s
theory of evolution by natural selection as it
is stated today.
4. Contrast the gradualism and punctuated
equilibrium models of evolution.
5. Describe how the fossil record supports
evolution.
6. Summarize how biological molecules
such as proteins and DNA are used as
evidence of evolution.
7. Infer how comparing the anatomy and
development of living species provided
evidence of evolution.
8. Identify four elements in the process of
natural selection.
9. Describe how natural selection has
affected the bacteria that cause tuberculosis.
10. Relate natural selection to the beak size
of finches.
11. Summarize the process of species
formation.
Principles of
Ecology
A. How Populations Grow
B. How Populations Evolve
L.1.2
L.2.2
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
L.3.1
S.2.1
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
1. Describe Linnaeus’s role in developing
the modern system of naming organisms.
2. Summarize the scientific system for
naming a species.
3. List the seven levels of biological
classification.
4. List the characteristics that biologists use
to classify organisms.
5. Summarize the biological species
concept.
6. Relate analogous structures to convergent
evolution.
7. Describe how biologists use cladograms
to determine evolutionary histories.
Populations:
How do populations
evolve?
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
1. Distinguish among the three patterns of
dispersion in a population.
2. Contrast exponential growth and logistic
growth.
3. Differentiate r-strategists from kstrategists.
4. Summarize the Hardy-Weinberg
principle.
5. Describe the five forces that cause
genetic change in a population.
6. Identify why selection against
unfavorable recessive alleles is slow.
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7. Contrast directional and stabilizing
selection.
What is an ecosystem?
Ecosystems:
How does energy flow in
ecosystems?
A. What is an Ecosystem?
How do materials cycle in
ecosystems?
B. Energy Flow in
Ecosystems
C. Cycling of Materials in
Ecosystems.
What are the five
kingdoms?
Exploring
Diversity
How do plants and
animals differ?
B. Advent of
Multicellularity
C. Complex Mulitcellularity
April
How are plants adapted to
living on land?
Exploring Plants
A. Adaptations of Plants
How are plants used in
our lives?
B. Kinds of Plants
C. Plants in Our Lives
L.1.2
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
6.Group Project
L.1.3
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
1. Identify the characteristics used to
classify kingdoms.
2. Differentiate bacteria from
archaeobacteria.
3. Contrast the terms colony and aggregate.
4. List the characteristics of protists.
5. List the characteristics of fungi.
6. List the levels of cellular organization
that occur in plants and animals.
7. Name the characteristics of plants.
8. Identify the characteristics of animals.
9. Differentiate plants from animals.
Introduction to Plants:
What is the difference
between vascular and
nonvascular plants?
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Group/Take home
Exam.
1. Distinguish an ecosystem from a
community.
2. Describe the diversity of a representative
ecosystem.
3. Sequence the process of succession.
4. Distinguish between producers and
consumers.
5. Compare food webs with food chains.
6. Describe why food chains are rarely
longer than three or four links.
7. Summarize the role of plants in the water
cycle.
8. Analyze the flow of energy through the
carbon cycle.
9. Identify the role of bacteria in the
nitrogen cycle.
Introduction to the
Kingdoms of Life:
A. Introduction to
Kingdoms and Domains
L.3.1
S.2.2
1. Summarize how plants are adapted to
living on land.
2. Distinguish nonvascular plants from
vascular plants.
3. Relate the success of plants on land to
seed and flowers.
4. Describe the basic structure of a vascular
plant sporophyte.
5. Describe the key features of the four
major groups of plants.
6. Classify plants into one of the 12 Phyla
of living plants.
7. Identify foods that come from plants and
their dietary importance.
8. Describe several ways that wood is used.
9. Explain how plants are used to treat
human ailments.
10. Identify plants that are used to make
paper and cloth.
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What features do animals
have in common?
Exploring
Invertebrates
Introduction to Animals:
A. Characteristics of
Animals
What are the different
body systems?
B. Animal Body Systems
May
What are the key
characteristics of
vertebrates?
Exploring
Vertebrates
How do ectotherms differ
from endotherms?
What two features are
unique to primates?
B. Terrestrial Vertebrates
How do Neanderthals
compare to modern
humans?
C. Evolution of Primates
D. The Genus Homo
What are the body’s
major organ systems?
Exploring Human
Biology
Introduction to Body
Structure:
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
6. Power Point
Presentations
L.1.3
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
4. Lab
5. Exam
L.1.3
S.2.1
1. Class discussion
2. Daily work
3. Quiz
1. Identify the features that animals have in
common.
2. Distinguish radial symmetry from
bilateral symmetry.
3. Summarize the importance of a body
cavity.
4. Identify how scientists determine
evolutionary relationships among animals.
5. Summarize the functions of the digestive,
respiratory, circulatory, nervous, skeletal,
and excretory systems.
6. Compare a gastrovascular cavity with a
one-way digestive system.
7. Differentiate open from closed
circulatory systems.
8. Distinguish asexual from sexual
reproduction.
Introduction to
Vertebrates:
A. Vertebrates in the Sea
and on Land
What adaptations allowed
amphibians to live on
land?
N.2.1
L.1.3
1. Identify the key characteristics of
vertebrates.
2. Describe two adaptations found in early
fishes.
3. Identify the relationship of fishes to
amphibians.
4. Summarize the key adaptations of
amphibians for life on land.
5. Summarize why dinosaurs became the
dominant land vertebrates.
6. Contrast ectotherms with endotherms.
7. Identify the dinosaurlike and the birdlike
features of Archaeopteryx.
8. Summarize why mammals replaced
dinosaurs.
9. Name two unique features of primates.
10. Contrast prosimians with monkeys.
11. Distinguish monkeys from apes.
12. Describe the evolutionary relationship
between humans and apes.
13. Identify the evidence that indicates
human ancestors walked upright before
their brains enlarged.
14. Compare H. habilis with
australopithecines.
15. Describe the characteristics of Homo
erectus.
16. Describe the evidence that suggests that
H. sapiens evolved in Africa.
17. Compare Neanderthals with modern
humans.
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What are the functions of
our skeletal and muscular
systems?
What is the primary
purpose of skin, hair, and
nails?
A. Body Organization
B. Skeletal System
C. Muscular System
D. Skin, Hair, and Nails
1. Identify four levels of structural
organization within the human body.
2. Analyze the four kinds of body tissues.
3. List the body’s major organ systems.
4. Evaluate the importance of endothermy
in maintaining homoeostasis.
5. Distinguish between the axial skeleton
and the appendicular skeleton.
6. Analyze the structure of bone.
7. Summarize the process of bone
development.
8. List two ways to prevent osteoporosis.
9. Identify the three main classes of joints.
10. Describe the action of muscle pairs in
moving the body.
11. Relate the structure of a skeletal muscle
to that muscle’s ability to contract.
12. Describe how energy is supplied to
muscles for contraction.
13. Analyze the structure and function of
the epidermis.
14. Describe how the dermis helps the body
maintain homeostasis.
15. Summarize how hair and nails are
formed.
16. Identify various types of skin disorders.
4. Lab
5. Exam
6. Group Project
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