OCG - Biology 2

Biology 1

South Carolina Standards:  (List the standards students are expected to master in this course)

• B.1A.1: Ask questions to (1) generate hypotheses for scientific investigations, (2) refine models, explanations or designs, or (3) extend the results of investigations or challenge scientific arguments or claims.
• B.1A.2: Develop, use, and refine models to (1) understand or represent phenomena, processes or relationships, (2) test devices or solutions, or (3) communicate ideas to others.
• B.1A.3: Plan and conduct controlled scientific investigations to answer questions, test hypotheses, and develop explanations: (1) formulate scientific questions and testable hypotheses based on credible scientific information, (2) identify materials, procedures, and variables, (3) use appropriate laboratory equipment, technology, and technigues to collect qualitative and quantitiative data, and (4) record and represent data in a appropriate form. Use appropriate safety procedures.
• B.1A.4: Analyze and interpret data from information texts and data collected from investigations using a range of methods (such as tabulation, graphing, or statistical analysis) to (1) reveal patterns and construct meaning, (2) support or refute hypotheses, explanations, claims, or designs, or (3) evaluate the strength of conclusions.
• B.1A.6: Construct explanations of phenomena using (1) primary or secondary scientific evidence and models, (2) conclusions from scientific investigations, (3) predictions based on observations and measurements, or (4) data communicated in graphs, tables or diagrams.
• B.1A.7: Construct and analyze scientific arguments to support claims, explanations or designs using evidence and valid reasoning from observations, data, or informational texts.
• B.1A.8: Obtain and evaluate scientific information to (1) answer questions, (2) explain or describe phenomena, (3) develop models, (4) evaluate hypotheses, or designs or (5) identify and /or fill gaps in knowledge. Communicate using the conventions and expectations of scientific writing or oral presentations by (1) evaluing grade-appropriate primary or secondary scientific literature, or (2) reporting the results of student experimental investigations.
• B.2B.2: Collect and interpret descriptive data on cell structure to compare and contrast different types of cells (including prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic, and animal versus plant versus fungal).
• B.2D.1: Construct models to explain how the processes of cell division and cell differentiation produce and maintain complex multicellular organisms.
• B.3A.2: Develop and revise models to describe how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy.
• B.3A.3: Construct scientific arguments to support claims that chemical elements in the sugar molecules produced by photosynthesis may interact with other elements to form amino acids, lipids, nucleic acids or other large organic molecules.
• B.4B.2: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information on how biotechnology (including gel electrophoresis, plasmid-based transformation and DNA fingerprinting) may be used in the fields of medicine, agriculture and forensic science.
• B.4C.1: Develop and use models of sex cell formation (meiosis) to explain why the DNA of the daughter cells is differnet from the DNA of the parent cell.
• 4C.3: Construct explanations for how meiosis followed by fertilization ensures genetic variation among offspring within the same family and genetic diversity within populations of sexually producing organisms.
• B-5.1: Summarize the process of natural selection.
• B-5.2: Explain how genetic processes result in the continuity of life-forms over time.
• B-5.3: Explain how diversity within a species increases the chances of its survival.
• B-5.4: Explain how genetic variability and environmental factors lead to biological evolution.
• B-5.5: Exemplify scientific evidence in the fields of anatomy, embryology, biochemistry, and paleontology that underlies the theory of biological evolution.
• B-5.6: Summarize ways that scientists use data from a variety of sources to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory.
• B-5.7: Use a phylogenetic tree to identify the evolutionary relationships among different groups of organisms

Other Standards:  (List national or local standards students are expected to master in this course)

• National Science and Engineering Practices (correlate with South Carolina Biology Standards H.B.1A and H.B.1B).