Academic Content Standards
1.C.3: Explain how geologic time can be estimated by multiple methods (e.g., rock sequences, fossil correlation, radiometric dating).
1.D.5: Explain how the acquisition and use of resources, urban growth and waste disposal can accelerate natural change and impact the quality of life.
1.D.6: Describe ways that human activity can alter biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon and nitrogen cycles) as well as food webs and energy pyramids (e.g., pest control, legume rotation crops vs. chemical fertilizers).
2.A.1: Explain that living cells
2.A.1.c: come from pre-existing cells,
2.A.1.d: are different from viruses.
2.B.3: Explain the characteristics of life as indicated by cellular processes including
2.B.3.c: transportation of molecules
2.B.4: Summarize the general processes of cell division and differentiation, and explain why specialized cells are useful to organisms and explain that complex multicellular organisms are formed as highly organized arrangements of differentiated cells.
2.C.5: Illustrate the relationship of the structure and function of DNA to protein synthesis and the characteristics of an organism.
2.C.6: Explain that a unit of hereditary information is called a gene, and genes may occur in different forms called alleles (e.g., gene for pea plant height has two alleles, tall and short).
2.C.7: Describe that spontaneous changes in DNA are mutations, which are a source of genetic variation. When mutations occur in sex cells, they may be passed on to future generations; mutations that occur in body cells may affect the functioning of that cell or the organism in which that cell is found.
2.C.8: Use the concepts of Mendelian and non-Mendelian genetics (e.g., segregation, independent assortment, dominant and recessive traits, sex-linked traits, jumping genes) to explain inheritance.
2.D.9: Describe how matter cycles and energy flows through different levels of organization in living systems and between living systems and the physical environment. Explain how some energy is stored and much is dissipated into the environment as thermal energy (e.g., food webs and energy pyramids).
2.D.10: Describe how cells and organisms acquire and release energy (photosynthesis, chemosynthesis, cellular respiration and fermentation).
2.E.12: Describe that biological classification represents how organisms are related with species being the most fundamental unit of the classification system. Relate how organisms are arranged into a hierarchy of groups and subgroups based on similarities and differences that reflect their evolutionary relationships.
2.F.15: Explain how living things interact with biotic and abiotic components of the environment (e.g., predation, competition, natural disasters and weather).
2.F.17: Conclude that ecosystems tend to have cyclic fluctuations around a state of approximate equilibrium that can change when climate changes, when one or more new species appear as a result of immigration or when one or more species disappear.
2.G.18: Describe ways that human activities can deliberately or inadvertently alter the equilibrium in ecosystems. Explain how changes in technology/biotechnology can cause significant changes, either positive or negative, in environmental quality and carrying capacity.
2.H.21: Explain that natural selection leads to organisms that are well suited for survival in particular environments. Explain how chance alone can result in the persistence of some inherited characteristics having a reproductive advantage or disadvantage for the organism. Recognize that when an environment changes, the survival value of some inherited characteristics may change.
2.H.22: Describe historical scientific developments that occurred in evolutionary thought (e.g., Lamarck and Darwin, Mendelian Genetics and modern synthesis).
2.I.24: Analyze how natural selection and other evolutionary mechanisms (e.g. genetic drift, immigration, emigration, mutation) and their consequences provide a scientific explanation for the diversity and unity of past life forms, as depicted in the fossil record, and present life forms.
2.J.27: Describe advances in life sciences that have important long-lasting effects on science and society (e.g., biological evolution, germ theory, biotechnology, discovering germs).
4.B.1: Cite examples of ways that scientific inquiry is driven by the desire to understand the natural world and how technology is driven by the need to meet human needs and solve human problems.
4.B.2: Describe examples of scientific advances and emerging technologies and how they may impact society.
Correlation last revised: 8/29/2016