Biology 10
Course Outline
Introduction to Biology 10
- Approach to Biology 10
- Levels of Biological Integration
- Fundamental characteristics of life
Ecology
- Ecosystem structure
- Ecosystem dynamics
- Population structure
- Population growth and fluctuations
- Limiting factors to populataion growth
Organismal Biology
- Terrestrial Biomes
- Nutrition
- Gas Exchange
- Transport
Cellular Biology
- Basic cellular organization
- Cell organelles
- Cell chemistry
- Membrane structure and function
- Cell specializations
- Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Molecular Genetics
- The nucleic acids: DNA and RNA
- Structure of DNA and chromosomes
- Protein synthesis: information transfer and feedback mechanisms
Cellular Reproduction
- Cell cycle, mitosis and cytokinesis
- Structure of DNA and chromosomes
- Protein synthesis: information transfer and feedback mechanisms
- Gametogenesis and cytokinesis
- Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Methods of Science
- Observations and Questions
- Forming hypotheses
- Bias and Tunnel vision
- The experiment and testing hypotheses
- Rigor in science
- Drawing conclusions
- Uncertainty Principle of Science
Genetics of Organisms
- Basic Mendelian Genetics
- Partial dominance
- Sex linkage and inheritance
- Multiple factor inheritance
- Lethality
- Autosomal linkage and crossing over
Evolution
- A history of evolutionary thought
- Darwin and natural selection
- Population genetics
- Gradualism
- Punctuated equilibrium
- Adaptive radiation
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