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College Biology 3-4 H is a laboratory science course taught at the college level for academically advanced students who have had an introductory life science course and wish to study biology at a higher level. Students may receive college credit; based on their performance. The topics will include those required by the college of concurrent enrollment and may include areas of life science such as ecology; human biology; genetics; developmental biology; botany; zoology and microbiology. Outside reading along with reports may be assigned.

Course Organization This course is structured around the four big ideas and the enduring understandings identified in the Curriculum Framework. All essential knowledge will be taught and all learning objectives will be addressed through this curriculum. The course will focus on inquiry-based laboratory work and the use of the seven science practices in both lab and non-lab activities.

Students will be given a copy of the big ideas and enduring understandings to self-monitor mastery of these major organizing tools. The big ideas and enduring understandings will also be posted in the room. As connections are made across big ideas; a line will join the related enduring understandings; visually building a web of relatedness as the course progresses. The topics/learning objectives will be used as a guide to build the rest of the class discussions; not as a checklist to be marked off through the year; but as a way to help students learn a focused amount of biological content with the use of specific scientific process skills. Skills will be practiced every day; not necessarily all skills every day; but each day at least one skill will be used to introduce the biological content students study.

Four Big Ideas: Big idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. Big idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow; to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. Big idea 3: Living systems store; retrieve; transmit and respond to information essential to life processes. Big idea 4: Biological systems interact; and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties.

Bio 100 Topics1. History of Biology2. Molecules of Life3. Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cell Structure4. Energy and Metabolixm5. Capturing and Releasing Energy6. DNA Structure and Function7. Gene Expression8. Mitosis and Meiosis9. Cancer10. Patterns of Inheritance11. Evidence of Evolution12. Process of Evolution13. Early Forms of Life14. Plants and Fungi15. Population Ecology16. Ecosystems17. The Biosphere and Human Effects18. The Human Body

Bio 100 Learning Outcomes 1. Describe and/or utilize the Scientific Method.2. Describe the basic characteristics shared by all living things.3. Identify and describe the basic chemistry fundamentals involved in the structure and life processes of living things.4. Identify and describe the structure and functioning of cells.5. Describe the arrangement and function of tissues; organs; and organ systems in multicellular organisms.6. Analyze the processes of cellular metabolism and the related energy transformations; organic molecules and cell structures.7. Identify and describe the importance of and the components of homeostasis.8. Describe and examine the various kinds of reproduction.9. Describe and analyze the processes involved in the biochemistry of DNA and other biochemicals of genetics (including protein synthesis).10. Analyze the events and processes involved in inheritance.11. Describe and analyze the processes that result in mutations.12. Describe and analyze the processes involved in evolution and their impact on all living things.13. Identify and describe the basic concepts of taxonomy and how they relate to the classification of all living things.14. Identify and analyze the basic principles of ecology.15. Demonstrate knowledge of laboratory safety skills and procedures.16. Practice principles of scientific method while conducting laboratory activities and experiments.17. Perform laboratory activities using relevant laboratory equipment; chemical reagents; and supplies to observe biological specimens; to measure variables; and to design and conduct experiments.18. Operate light microscopes; prepare wet-mount slides; and use stains.19. Exhibit ability to use pipettes and other volumetric measuring devices; chemical glassware; balances; pH meters or test papers; spectrophotometers; and separation techniques; such as chromatography and/or electrophoresis to perform activities relevant to other course competencies.20. Analyze and report data generated during laboratory activities and experiments.

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