MS. DALEY'S SCIENCE WEBPAGE Jupiter Grades Link Massachusetts Life-Science Frameworks Standards - Scientific Inquiry Skills
- Classify organisms into the currently recognized kingdoms according to characteristics that they share. Be familiar with organisms from each kingdom.
- Recognize that all organisms are composed of cells, and that many organisms are single-celled (unicellular), e.g., bacteria, yeast. In these single-celled organisms, one cell must carry out all of the basic functions of life.
- Compare and contrast plant and animal cells, including major organelles (cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplasts, mitochondria, vacuoles).
- Recognize that within cells, many of the basic functions of organisms are carried out. The way in which cells function is similar in all living organisms.
- Describe the hierarchical organization of multicellular organisms from cells to tissues to organs to systems to organisms.
- Identify the general functions of the major systems of the human body (digestion, respiration, reproduction, circulation, excretion, protection from disease, and movement, control, and coordination) and describe ways that these systems interact with each other.
- Recognize that every organism requires a set of instructions that specifies its traits. These instructions are stored in the organism’s chromosomes. Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another.
- Recognize that hereditary information is contained in genes located in the chromosomes of each cell. A human cell contains about 30,000 different genes on 23 different chromosomes.
- Compare sexual reproduction (offspring inherit half of their genes from each parent) with asexual reproduction (offspring is an identical copy of the parent’s cell).
- Give examples of ways in which genetic variation and environmental factors are causes of evolution and the diversity of organisms.
- Recognize that evidence drawn from geology, fossils, and comparative anatomy provides the basis of the theory of evolution.
- Relate the extinction of species to a mismatch of adaptation and the environment.
- Give examples of ways in which organisms interact and have different functions within an ecosystem that enable the ecosystem to survive.
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