BIOLOGY PERIOD 5

Class Hours: 12:15 pm – 1:10 pm (Monday-Wednesday), 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm (Thursday)

Class Code: mdg7mso

FIRST SEMESTER

(08/16 TO 08/27)

Topic: THE UNIFYING THEMES OF BIOLOGY

Standard: HS-LS1-2, HS-LS2-2, HS-LS2-7 (Unifying Themes of Biology)

GOALS:

1. Join and become familiar with Google Classroom
2. Explore Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides)
3. Sign out and receive text books
4. Learn how to upload an assignment to Google Classroom
5. Student Handbook: Redos
6. Website link

Objectives (Students will be able to understand that):

1. Biology is the study of all living things.
2. There are 6 themes that unify the study of biology.  
3. The cell is the basic unit of structure and function.
4. Unicellular organisms are made up of one cell, whereas multicellular organisms are made up of more than one cell. 
5. Homeostasis is the state of internal stability. 
6. DNA is a large molecule containing the hereditary material of a cell.  
7. Unicellular organisms typically produce offspring identical to themselves via asexual reproduction. 
8. Multicellular organisms typically produce distinct offspring via sexual reproduction. 
9. Genes are short segments of DNA that carry the instructions for a single trait of an organism.

Homework 1: