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Course Outline
Instructor: Mrs. Blosky
e-mail: [email protected]
Text: Biology, 2002, 6th edition,
By Miller, Levine
UNIT 1 THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF LIFE- Objectives & Reading Assignments
Describe the unique properties of water and how these properties support life on Earth (e.g., freezing
point, high specific heat, cohesion).
2-2 (40-43) The Properties of Water
Explain how carbon is uniquely suited to form biological macromolecules.
2-3 (44-48) Carbon Compounds
Describe how biological macromolecules form from monomers.
2-3 (44-48) Carbon Compounds
Compare the structure and function of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids in organisms.
2-3 (44-48) Carbon Compounds
38-1 (970-977) Food and Nutrition
Describe the role of an enzyme as a catalyst in regulating a specific biochemical reaction.
2-4 (49-55) Chemical Reactions and Enzymes
Explain how factors such as pH, temperature, and concentration levels can affect enzyme function.
2-4 (49-55) Chemical Reactions and Enzymes
UNIT 2 BASIC BIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES - Objectives & Reading Assignments
Describe the characteristics of life shared by all prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms.
1-3 (16-20) Studying Life
Compare cellular structures and their functions in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
7-1 (168-172) Life is Cellular
7-2 (173-183) Cell Structures
Describe and interpret relationships between structure and function at various levels of biological
organization (i.e., organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and multicellular organisms).
7-2 (173-183) Cell Structures
7-4 (190-193) The Diversity of Cellular Life
UNIT 3 BIOENERGETICS- Objectives & Reading Assignments
Describe the fundamental roles of plastids (e.g., chloroplasts) and mitochondria in energy
transformations.
7-2 (180) Cell Structures
8-1 (200-203) Energy and Life
Compare the
8-2 (204-207)
8-3 (208-214)
9-1 (220-225)
9-2 (226-232)
basic transformation of energy during photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
Photosynthesis: An Overview
The Reactions of Photosynthesis
Chemical Pathways
The Krebs Cycle and Electron Transport
Describe the role of ATP in biochemical reactions.
8-1 (200-203) Energy and Life
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UNIT 4 HOMEOSTASIS AND TRANSPORT - Objectives & Reading Assignments
Describe how the structure of the plasma membrane allows it to function as a regulatory structure
and/or protective barrier for a cell.
7-3 (184-189) Movement through the Membrane
Compare the mechanisms that transport materials across the plasma membrane (i.e., passive transport—
diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion; and active transport—pumps, endocytosis, exocytosis).
7-3 (184-189) Movement through the Membrane
Describe how membrane-bound cellular organelles (e.g., endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus)
facilitate the transport of materials within a cell.
7-2 (173-183) Cell Structures
Explain how organisms maintain homeostasis (e.g., thermoregulation, water regulation, oxygen
regulation).
7-3 (184-189) Movement through the Membrane
37-3 (956-963) The Respiratory System
UNIT 5 CELL GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION - Objectives & Reading Assignments
Describe the events that occur during the cell cycle: interphase, nuclear division (i.e., mitosis or
meiosis), cytokinesis.
10-1 (240-243) Cell Growth
10-2 (244-249) Cell Division
10-3 (250-252) Regulating the Cell Cycle
11-4 (275-279) Meiosis
Compare the processes and outcomes of mitotic and meiotic nuclear divisions.
10-2 (244-249) Cell Division
10-3 (250-252) Regulating the Cell Cycle
11-4 (275-279) Meiosis
Describe how the process of DNA replication results in the transmission and/or conservation of genetic
information.
12-1 (287-294) DNA
12-2 (295-299) Chromosomes and DNA Replication
Explain the functional relationships between DNA, genes, alleles, and chromosomes and their roles in
inheritance.
11-1 (262-266) The Work of Gregor Mendel
12-1 (287-294) DNA
12-2 (295-299) Chromosomes and DNA Replication
UNIT 6 GENETICS - Objectives & Reading Assignments
Describe and/or predict observed patterns of inheritance (i.e., dominant, recessive, co-dominance,
incomplete dominance, sex-linked, polygenic, and multiple alleles).
11-1 (262-266) The Work of Gregor Mendel
11-2 (267-269) Probability & Punnett Squares
11-3 (270-274) Exploring Mendelian Genetics
14-1 (340-348) Human Heredity
14-2 (350-351) Human Chromosomes
Describe processes that can alter composition or number of chromosomes (i.e., crossing-over,
nondisjunction, duplication, translocation, deletion, insertion, and inversion).
11-4 (276-277) Meiosis
12-4 (308) Mutations
14-1 (352-353) Chromosomal Disorders
14-2 (352-353) Human Chromosomes
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UNIT 6 GENETICS – Continued
Describe how the processes of transcription and translation are similar in all organisms.
12-3 (300-306) RNA & Protein Synthesis
13-2 (327-329) Cell Transformation
7-1 (172) Prokaryotes & Eukaryotes
Describe the role of ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and the nucleus in the
production of specific types of proteins.
7-2 (173-183) Cell Structures
12-3 (300-306) RNA & Protein Synthesis
Describe how genetic mutations alter the DNA sequence and may or may not affect phenotype (e.g.,
silent, nonsense, frame-shift).
12-4 (307) Mutations
13-1 (320-321) Changing the Living World
16-1 (394) Genes & Variation
Explain how genetic engineering has impacted the fields of medicine, forensics, and agriculture (e.g.,
selective breeding, gene splicing, cloning, genetically modified organisms, gene therapy).
13-1 (318-321) Changing the Living World
13-2 (322-326) Manipulating DNA
13-3 (327-330) Cell Transformation
13-4 (331-333) Applications of Genetic Engineering
* Virus Booklet (Gene Therapy)
UNIT 7 THEORY OF EVOLUTION - Objectives & Reading Assignments
Explain how natural selection can impact allele frequencies of a population.
16-2 (397-403) Evolution as Genetic Change
Describe the factors that can contribute to the development of new species (e.g., isolating mechanisms,
genetic drift, founder effect, migration).
16-2 (397-403) Evolution as Genetic Change
16-3 (404-410) The Process of speciation
Explain how genetic mutations may result in genotypic and phenotypic variations within a population.
16-1 (392- 396) Genes and Variation
Interpret evidence supporting the theory of evolution (i.e., fossil, anatomical, physiological,
embryological, biochemical, and universal genetic code).
15-1 (368-372) The Puzzle of Life’s Diversity
15-2 (373-377) Ideas that Shaped Darwin’s Thinking
15-3 (378-386) Darwin Presents his Case
Distinguish between the scientific terms: hypothesis, inference, law, theory, principle, fact, and
observation.
1-1 (3-7) What is Science?
1-2 (8-12) How Science Works
UNIT 8 ECOLOGY - Objectives & Reading Assignments
Describe the levels of ecological organization (i.e., organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome,
and biosphere).
3-1 (62-65) What is Ecology?
Describe characteristic biotic and abiotic components of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
4-3 (98-105) Land Biomes
4-4 (106-112) Aquatic Ecosystems
Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem (e.g., food chains, food webs, energy pyramids).
3-2 (67-73) Energy Flow
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UNIT 8 ECOLOGY – Continued
Describe biotic interactions in an ecosystem (e.g., competition, predation, symbiosis).
4-2 (90-94) What Shapes an Ecosystem?
Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (i.e., water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, and
nitrogen cycle).
3-3 (74-80) Cycles of Matter
Describe how ecosystems change in response to natural and human disturbances (e.g., climate changes,
introduction of nonnative species, pollution, fires).
4-1 (86-89) The Role of Climate
4-2 (90-97) What Shapes an Ecosystem?
Describe the effects of limiting factors on population dynamics and potential species extinction.
5-1 (118-122) How Populations Grow
5-2 (124-128) Limits to Growth
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