1. Unit One - What is Life?

2. Science - an organized way of collecting and analyzing evidence about the natural world.

3. Science provides explanations for events in the natural world, an understanding of patterns in nature, and predictions about natural events.

4. Whale Research

6. Uncertainty in Science

8. Why are hypotheses so important to controlled experiments?

9. Inference or observation? Amin has a grey microscope with three objective lenses. Amin has a grey microscope with three objective lenses. Morgan does not like her microscope. Morgan does not like her microscope. Nathan used a dropper to make a wet mount slide. Nathan used a dropper to make a wet mount slide. Two protozoans, of the same size, converge and bump into each other and then swim away. Two protozoans, of the same size, converge and bump into each other and then swim away. The two protozoans were fighting. The two protozoans were fighting. The two protozoans were after the same food. The two protozoans were after the same food. The long, snakelike creature that Zaki saw must be a worm of some type. The long, snakelike creature that Zaki saw must be a worm of some type.

10. Controlled Experiment

11. Living things are based on a universal genetic code

12. Living things grow and develop

13. Living things respond to their environment

14. Living things reproduce

15. Living things maintain a stable internal environment

17. Living things obtain and use material and energy

18. Living things are made up of cells.

19. Living things evolve

20. Big Ideas in Biology #1 Cellular Basis of Life

21. Big Ideas in Biology #2 Information and Heredity

22. Big Ideas in Biology #3 Matter Energy

23. Big Ideas in Biology #4 Growth, development and Reproduction

24. Big Idea in Biology #5 Homeostasis

25. Big Idea in Biology #6 Evolution

26. Big Idea in Biology #7 Structure and Function

27. Big Idea in Biology #8 Unity and Diversity of Life

28. Big Idea in Biology #9 Interdependence of in Nature

29. Levels of Organization Molecular

30. Levels of Organization: Cells

31. Levels of Organization: tissues, organs

32. Levels of Organization: Systems

33. Levels of Organization: Organism

34. Levels of Organization: population

35. Levels of Organization: community

36. Levels of Organization: Ecosystem

37. Levels of Organization: Biomes

38. Levels of Organization: Biosphere

39. Systematics: Taxonomy

40. Taxonomy Kingdo m PhylumClassOrderFamilyGenusSpeciescommon AnimaliaChordat a mammal ia ceteceaMysticetiBalaenop tera Musculu s Blue whale AnimaliaChordat a Chondri chthyes Elasmob ranchii Lamnida e Carcharo don Carchari as Great white shark

41. Species: Two that are not species: MuleLiger

42. Characteristics of Kingdoms

44. The unusual Protists: This group does not have a common ancestor so quotations are used to show that this is not a true clade

45. The Tree of Life

46. Fields of Biology: Global Ecology

47. Fields of Biology: Biotechnology

48. Fields of Biology: Health

49. Taxonomy – building the tree of life.

50. Genomics and Molecular Biology:

51. Citizen Scientist