Biology
SYLLABUS FIRST SEMESTER
Text Used:
Modern Biology 1992 Ed.
by Albert Kaskel
- First Quarter:
- General Laboratory Safety
- Metric System
- Unit 1 Kinds of Life
- Chapter 1 The Study of Life
- Chapter 2 Features of Life & the Cell
- Chapter 3 Classification
- Unit 2 Kingdoms
- Chapter 4 Viruses & Monerans
- Chapter 15 Protists & Fungi
Other Events & Projects:
Whale Watch (scheduled for the end of September)
Nutrition Project
- Second Quarter:
- Unit 3 Body Systems - Maintaining Life
- Chapter 9 Nutrition
- Chapter 10 Digestion
- Chapter 11 Circulation
- Chapter 12 Blood
Other Events & Projects:
Semester Exam (scheduled for Jan.19-22, 1999)
SYLLABUS SECOND SEMESTER
- Third Quarter:
- Unit 3 Body Systems - Maintaining Life
- Chapter 13 Respiration & Excretion
- Chapter 14 Support & Movement
- Unit 5 Body Systems - Controlling Life
- Chapter 15 Nervous & Chemical Control
- Chapter 16 Senses
- Fourth Quarter:
- Unit 7 Traits of Living Things
- Chapter 26 Inheritance of Traits
- Chapter 27 Human Genetics
- Chapter 28 DNA - Life's Code
- Chapter 29 Evolution
Other Events & Projects:
Semester Exam (scheduled for Jun.11-16, 1999)