Biology I Course Sequence
Once we cover a topic, students will need to retain that information for the rest of the course. I suggest spending a minimum of 10-15 minutes on Sunday night and Wednesday night studying all of the slides up to the current point to help with recall.
| Are you using the textbook and the workbook as additional sources to work on these assignments? | |||||||||
| Are you using YouTube videos (specifically the Amoeba Sisters)? | |||||||||
| Still have questions or problems or need help, get a pass for study hall...Impact Tuesday - Friday. | |||||||||
| Semester 1 | |||||||||
| BIOTIC VS. ABIOTIC | |||||||||
| 6 CHARACTERISTICS OF ALL LIVING THINGS | |||||||||
| SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY | |||||||||
| Tools | |||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Accuracy vs. Precision | |||||||||
| SCIENTIFIC METHOD | |||||||||
| Steps of the Scientific Method | |||||||||
| Controlled Experiment with Hypothesis | |||||||||
| Dependent vs. Independent Variables | |||||||||
| Engineering Design and Prototype | |||||||||
| LAB SAFETY | |||||||||
| General Rules and Video | |||||||||
| Microscope | |||||||||
| Lab Equipment | |||||||||
| GRAPH INTERPRETATION | |||||||||
| General Graph Reading and Interpretation | |||||||||
| Line Graph | |||||||||
| Bar Graph | |||||||||
| Pie Chart | |||||||||
| BIO/MACROMOLECULES | |||||||||
| (Need to know for all: elements, subunits, examples, indicator, positive test result, functions, etc.) | |||||||||
| General Periodical Table Lesson | |||||||||
| Simple and Complex Carbohydrates | |||||||||
| Lipids | |||||||||
| Proteins | |||||||||
| Nucleic Acids | |||||||||
| Identify the Chemical Structure of Biomolecules | |||||||||
| ENZYMES | |||||||||
| General Facts and Functions | |||||||||
| Energy of Activation Chart | |||||||||
| Enzyme - Substrate Complex | |||||||||
| Denaturing of Enzymes | |||||||||
| ECOLOGY | |||||||||
| Land Biomes | |||||||||
| Water Biomes (see Land Biomes) | |||||||||
| Food Chains/Food Webs | |||||||||
| Symbiotic Relationships | |||||||||
| Energy Pyramid | |||||||||
| Population Curves | |||||||||
| Population Determinants and Changes | |||||||||
| Biomagnification | |||||||||
| Human Effects on Populations | |||||||||
| Primary and Secondary Succession | |||||||||
| Biogeochemical Cycles | |||||||||
| Carbon-Oxygen, Water, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycles (see Cycles-2 pages) | |||||||||
| HOMEOSTASIS | |||||||||
| CELLS | |||||||||
| Cell Membrane | |||||||||
| Cells | |||||||||
| Cell Type (Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic) | |||||||||
| Cell Structures and their Functions | |||||||||
| Cell Examples (Labeling and Identifying Structures) | |||||||||
| Transport Mechanisms (Passive and Active) | |||||||||
| Transport Mechanisms Diagrams | |||||||||
| Tonicity (Hypertonic, Isotonic and Hypotonic) | |||||||||
| Bacteria and Viruses | |||||||||
| CELL CYCLE | |||||||||
| Cell Cycle - Mitosis | |||||||||
| (know each stage's facts, timing, DNA name, nuclear membrane, centrioles and spider fibers, etc.) | |||||||||
| Cell Cycle - Mitosis Diagrams | |||||||||
| PHOTOSYNTHESIS | |||||||||
| Light and Dark Reactions | |||||||||
| Energy Transformation | |||||||||
| ATP PRIMER | |||||||||
| Basics of AMP, ADP and ATP | |||||||||
| CELLULAR RESPIRATION | |||||||||
| Number of ATP produced at specific sites | |||||||||
| Fermentation and Anaerobic Respiration | |||||||||
| Cellular Respiration and Aerobic Respiration | |||||||||
| INTERACTION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND CELLULAR RESPIRATION AS A CYCLE | |||||||||
| CELL CYCLE | |||||||||
| Cell Cycle - Meiosis | |||||||||
| Laws of Segregation and Independent Assortment | |||||||||
| (know each stage's facts, timing, DNA name, nuclear membrane, centrioles and spider fibers, etc.) | |||||||||
| Synapsis and Crossing-over contribution to Genetic Diversity | |||||||||
| COPMPARISON OF MITOSIS TO MEIOSIS | |||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||
| GENETICS - Mendelian | |||||||||
| Dominant vs. recessive | |||||||||
| Genotype vs. Phenotype | |||||||||
| Homologous vs. Heterologous | |||||||||
| Monohybrid Punnet Squares | |||||||||
| Dihybrid Punnett Squares | |||||||||
| GENETICS - Non-Mendelian | |||||||||
| Incomplete Dominance (see Dominance Summary) | |||||||||
| Co-Dominance (see Dominance Summary) | |||||||||
| Multiple Alleles | |||||||||
| ABO Blood Types/Groups (see Dominance Summary) | |||||||||
| Polygenic Traits | |||||||||
| Sex-linked Traits | |||||||||
| Pedigree Introduction | |||||||||
| Autosomal vs. Sex-Linked | |||||||||
| Reading Pedigrees to determine Inheritance Patterns | |||||||||
| PROTEIN SYNTHESIS | |||||||||
| (know each stage's purpose, goal, site, bonds involved, nucleotides, strands, timing, facts, etc.) | |||||||||
| Nucleic Acids Revisited (also see Biomolecules) | |||||||||
| DNA vs. RNA | |||||||||
| Chargaff's Rule on Base Pairing | |||||||||
| DNA Replication | |||||||||
| Protein Synthesis - Transcription | |||||||||
| Protein Synthesis - Translation | |||||||||
| Protein Synthesis Diagrams | |||||||||
| Mutations | |||||||||
| DNA Fingerprinting and Diagrams | |||||||||
| Karyotype and Diagrams | |||||||||
| Genetic Engineering | |||||||||
| DNA Extraction and Modification | |||||||||
| Cloning and Transformation | |||||||||
| EVOLUTION (as a method of biological change, not as a theory…blind cave fish example) | |||||||||
| Early Researchers | |||||||||
| Charles Darwin | |||||||||
| Divergent vs. Convergent Evolution | |||||||||
| Analogous vs. Homologous Structures | |||||||||
| Types of Specie Isolation | |||||||||
| Natural Selection Patterns | |||||||||
| Levels of Classification | |||||||||
| Levels of Fossil Stratification | |||||||||
| Symmetry | |||||||||