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Jefferson County Schools Science The Terra Nova, Second Edition (CAT/6) is a comprehensive, modular assessment series, offering multiple measures of student achievement in science. Biology II Biology II is a course that introduces students to major specialty areas of biology. |
| Life Science |
| The Life Science unit addresses the characteristics and cycles of and relationships between living things and their environments. Topics include cellular organization, classification, ecosystems, genetics, and human health issues. |
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Heredity: DNA/Analyze/Structure/Function
The learner will be able to analyze DNA's structure and function.
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Heredity: DNA/Differentiate/Nuclear
The learner will be able to differentiate among nuclear DNA and DNA from bacteria, organelles, and bacteriophages.
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Heredity: Genetics/Examine/Modes
The learner will be able to examine modes of inheritance including gene linkage and epistasis, using karyotypes, genetic problems, pedigrees, or Punnet squares.
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Heredity: Genetics/Analyze/Modes/Genes
The learner will be able to analyze modes of inheritance involving linked genes and epistasis.
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Protein Synthesis: Explore/Transcription
The learner will be able to explore the transcription and translation process.
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Protein Synthesis: Explore/mRNA/Editing
The learner will be able to explore mRNA editing and its translation into a protein.
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Heredity: DNA/Explore/Environment
The learner will be able to explore how DNA is affected by the environment.
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Genes: Describe/Proteins/Expression
The learner will be able to describe how the end product of gene expression is proteins, utilizing models.
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Gene: Explore/Combinations/Formed
The learner will be able to explore how new gene combinations are formed.
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Genes: Analyze/Expression/Regulation
The learner will be able to analyze the gene expression regulation process.
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Genetic Engineering: Explore/Recombinant
The learner will be able to explore the uses of recombinant DNA technology, including cloning.
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Genetic Engineering: Explain/Cloning
The learner will be able to explain the cloning process.
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Genetic Engineering: Research/Methods
The learner will be able to research genetic engineering methods, including recombinant DNA and cloning.
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Genetic Engineering: Argue/Cloning
The learner will be able to argue the ethical and social implications of cloning.
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Biotechnology: Debate/Weapons
The learner will be able to debate the utilization of biological weapons.
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Cells: Meiosis/Associate/Haploid/Diploid
The learner will be able to associate meiosis to haploid cell formation from diploid cells.
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Heredity: Chromosome/Interpret/Model
The learner will be able to interpret information from a model of crossing-over.
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Heredity: Chromosome/Describe/Diversity
The learner will be able to describe how genetic diversity is increased by crossing over.
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Heredity: Chromosome/Explore/Mapping
The learner will be able to explore chromosome mapping.
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Heredity: Mutation/Genetics/Cancer
The learner will be able to research how genetics and cancer relate.
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Cells: Find/Differentiation/Abnormal
The learner will be able to find differences in normal and abnormal cell differentiation in amphibians, chickens, and mammals.
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Reproduction: Find/Produce/Eggs/Sperm
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in how sperm and eggs are produced.
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Reproduction: Differentiate/Sexually
The learner will be able to differentiate between sexually and asexually reproducing organisms.
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Heredity: Genetics/Investigate
The learner will be able to investigate the genomic organization and DNA inheritance in prokaryotes, eukaryotes, cell organelles, and humans.
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Heredity: Genetics/Explore/Population
The learner will be able to explore population genetics.
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Heredity: Genetics/Associate/Speciation
The learner will be able to associate the speciation process and the ability of a population to undergo evolutionary divergence to allele frequencies utilizing the Hardy-Weinberg Law.
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Heredity: Genetics/Explore/Law
The learner will be able to explore the Hardy-Weinberg Law.
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Microorganisms: Recognize/Relate
The learner will be able to recognize how humans, plants, and microorganisms relate.
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Monera: Describe/Exponential/Growth
The learner will be able to describe the exponential growth of bacteria populations.
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Monera: Show/Recombinant/DNA
The learner will be able to show the process of how the bacterium E. coli is produced by using recombinant DNA.
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Monera: Differentiate/Varieties/Shape
The learner will be able to differentiate among the varieties of bacteria based on shape and utilizing various stains.
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Monera: Assess/Ways/Control/Growth
The learner will be able to assess the long term ways to control the growth of bacteria.
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Microorganisms: Explain/Symbiosis
The learner will be able to explain how symbiosis, mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism relate to the main classes of microorganisms.
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Microorganisms: Explain/Advantageous
The learner will be able to explain the advantageous uses of microorganisms.
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Microorganisms: Explain/Environment
The learner will be able to explain the environment for the main classes of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, and protists, that will maximize their ability to grow and reproduce.
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Microorganisms: Analyze/Diversity/Life
The learner will be able to analyze the diversity of microorganisms.
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Microorganisms: Analyze/Requirements
The learner will be able to analyze the requirements for microorganisms to flourish.
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Microorganisms: Find/Pathogenic
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in pathogenic and parasitic microorganisms, considering their identity, interactions, diseases they cause, and growth control methods.
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Microorganisms: Analyze/Uses/Society
The learner will be able to analyze the uses of microorganisms in society.
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Microorganisms: Differentiate/Parasites
The learner will be able to differentiate between bacterial, fungal, and microscopic parasites based on their growth and nutrition.
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Microorganisms: Explore/Diversity/Impact
The learner will be able to explore the diversity, impact, and uses of microorganism.
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Diseases: Explore/Caused
The learner will be able to explore diseases caused by microorganisms.
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Diseases: Find/Autoimmune/Other
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences between autoimmune diseases and other diseases.
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Diseases: Explore/AIDS/Affected
The learner will be able to explore how AIDS and other autoimmune diseases are affected sociologically.
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Diseases: Research/Data/Graphs/Epidemics
The learner will be able to research graphs, charts, and data about epidemics.
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Diseases: Explore/Epidemiology
The learner will be able to explore the epidemiology of surfacing infectious diseases.
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Immune: Explore/Causes/Response
The learner will be able to explore the causes for the immune response.
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Immune: Explore/Reaction/Response
The learner will be able to explore the immune response reaction.
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Immune: Explore/Results/Response
The learner will be able to explore immune response results.
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Immune: Analyze/Response/Stages
The learner will be able to analyze the immune response stages.
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Immune: Investigate/Disorders
The learner will be able to investigate disorders of the immune system.
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Immune: Find/Types/Caused/Antigens
The learner will be able to find similarities among various types of immune responses caused by antigens.
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Immune: Find/Specific/Acquired
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences between specific and acquired immunity.
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Immune: Explore/Environment/Genetics
The learner will be able to explore how immune responses are affected by the environment and genetics.
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Immune: Explore/Human/Serum's/Antibodies
The learner will be able to explore the human serum's main antibodies.
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Plants: Survival/Comprehend/Earth
The learner will be able to comprehend the significance of plants to survival on the earth.
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Plants: Parts/Recognize/Explain/Label
The learner will be able to recognize, explain, or label roots, stems, leaves, and seed-producing structures as the main organs of vascular plants.
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Plants: Analyze/Vascular/Evolution
The learner will be able to analyze the anatomy and physiology of vascular and non-vascular plant to show the biological evolution of plants on the earth.
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Plants: Habitats/Describe/Survive
The learner will be able to describe the specializations needed for plants to survive in different habitats.
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Plants: Spore Producers/Moss/Fern
The learner will be able to describe the life cycles of both moss and fern.
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Plants: Spore Producers/Survey/Mosses
The learner will be able to survey the life cycle of mosses.
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Plants: Spore Producers/Survey/Ferns
The learner will be able to survey the life cycle of ferns.
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Plants: Parts/Find/Similarities
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in spores and seeds.
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Plants: Explore/Basic/Complex/Forms
The learner will be able to explore plant forms that are basic and complex.
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Plants: Survey/Variations/Recognize
The learner will be able to survey variations in plants to recognize ones that are non-vascular or vascular, spore or seed producing, gymnosperms or angiosperms, and monocots or dicots.
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Plants: Parts/Associate/Produced
The learner will be able to associate spores and seeds to the plant parts that produce them.
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Plants: Explain/Transporting/Vascular
The learner will be able to explain the transpiration, tension-cohesion, and pressure flow models to describe vascular plants' means of transporting materials.
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Plants: Habitats/Differentiate/Adapted
The learner will be able to differentiate among the varieties of plants adapted to living in different habitats.
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Seed Plants: Angiosperm/Gymnosperm
The learner will be able to differentiate between angiosperms and gymnosperms.
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Plants: Explore/Anatomy/Physiology
The learner will be able to explore the variations in the anatomy and physiology of plants that describe how they grow, reproduce, survive, and coexist with animals in their habitats.
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Seed Plants: Find/Angiosperms
The learner will be able to find similarities in angiosperms and gymnosperms.
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Angiosperms: Survey/Illustrate/Label
The learner will be able to survey, illustrate, and label the major structures contained in flowers and seeds of angiosperms.
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Plants: Life Cycle/Explain/Pollination
The learner will be able to explain the pollination and germination process.
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Plants: Parts/Explain/List/Animals
The learner will be able to explain and list plants or their parts that are beneficial or detrimental to animals, especially humans, including medicines, food, shelter, and clothing.
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Animals & Plants: Show/Beneficial
The learner will be able to show the wide variety of plants that are both beneficial and detrimental to animals, especially humans.
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Animals: Find/Basic/Complex/Anatomy
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in basic to complex animals based on variations in anatomy, development of the embryo, and evolutionary history.
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