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Subject: AP Biology – Content Map
Topic: Diversity of Organisms
Dates:
Instructor: Clark/Valentine
Grade: 11/12
Key Learning(s):
Living things are classified according to similar characteristics and
evolutionary relationships.
Unit Essential Question(s):
What characteristics are used to distinguish relationships among
organisms?
What distinguishes members of one kingdom from members of
another?
Concept: Origin of Life & classification
3.1.12.C3 – Analyze the evidence to support
various theories of evolution.
3.1.B.A1 – Explain that some structures in
eukaryotic cells developed from early
prokaryotic cells.
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are taxonomic categories and how do
they indicate relatedness?
How may have life spontaneously arisen on
Earth?
What factors led to the divergence of
organisms?
Vocabulary:
Domain
Phylogeny
Cladogram
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Proteinoids
Endosymbiosis
Concept: Bacteria and viruses
3.1.B.A1 – Compare and contrast
the cellular structures and degrees
of complexity of prokaryotic and
eukaryotic organisms.
3.1.B.A4 – compare and contrast a
virus and a cell. Relate the stages
of viral cycles to the cell cycle.
Lesson Essential Questions:
How are bacteria different from
eukaryotes in terms of genome,
organelles, size, and reproduction?
What are the unique features of
bacterial life processes?
What are the components of a
virus?
What is the difference between lytic
and lysogenic cycles?
Vocabulary:
Photoautotrophic
Chemoautotrophic
Photoheterotrophic
Chemoheterotrophic
Peptidoglycan
Glycocalyx
Capsule
Pili
Plasmid
Conjugation
Endospore
Lytic
Lysogenic
Retrovirus
Prion
Tools:
Ch 19-28 notes
Ch 19-28 workbook
Plant lab
Protist lab
Graphic organizers
Foldable
Animal Phyla project
Concept: Protists
3.1.12.A5 – Analyze how structure
is related to function at all levels of
biological organization from
molecules to organisms.
Lesson Essential Questions:
Are protists their own kingdom?
How do major groups of protists
compare to other eukaryotes?
Vocabulary:
Euglenoids
Giardiasis
Cyst
Amoeba
Ciliates
Contractile vacuole
Dinoflagellate
Oomycote
Slime mold
Algae
Concept: Plants
3.1.12.A5 – Analyze how structure is
related to function at all levels of
biological organization from molecules
to organisms.
Concept: Fungi
3.1.12.A5 – Analyze how structure is
related to function at all levels of
biological organization from
molecules to organisms.
Concept: Animals
3.1.B.A3 – Explain how all organisms
begin their life cycles as a single cell
and that in multicelluar organisms,
successive generations of embryonic
cells form by cell division.
3.1.12.A5 – Analyze how structure is
related to function at all levels of
biological organization from
molecules to organisms.
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are some of the advantages and
disadvantages of life on land?
Explain the alternation of generations?
What are the major characteristics f the
different groups of plants?
What is the evolutionary significance
of seeds and pollen?
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are the characteristics of fungi?
What important ecological roles to
fungi play in ecosystems?
Vocabulary:
Vascular plants
Bryophytes
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Xylem
Phloem
Cuticle
Stomata
Gametophyte
Sporophyte
Spores
Pollen grains
Megaspore
Ovule
Monocot
dicot
Vocabulary:
Lichen
Mycorrhiza
Saprobes
Zygomycota
Ascomycota
Basidiomycota
Mycelium
Hypha
Asci
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are the stages of animal
development?
What advances in body structure made
animals larger and more complex?
How does symmetry, body cavity
development, and fate of the
blastopore determine an animals’
phyla?
Vocabulary:
Blastula
Gastrula
Protostome
deuterostome
Ectoderm
Endoderm
Mesoderm
Radial symmetry
Bilateral symmetry
Coelom
Pseudocoelomate
Acoelomate
Porifera
Cnidaria
Platyhelminthes
Nematoda
Rotifera
Mollusca
Annelida
Arthropoda
Echinodermata
Chordate
Notochord
Amniote
Pharyngeal slits