I CAN STATEMENTS- Academic Biology

I Can Statements for Chapter 1 and Sections 2.1 & 2.2

1) Define what science is and what it relies on (pgs. 4-5)

2) Identify fields of biology (using common science prefixes and suffixes, pgs. 22-23)

3) In an example, identify which step of the scientific method is being conducted. I can use the scientific method to design an experiment (pgs. 6-9)

· To design an experiment, what four attitudes are important for a scientist to have? (pg. 10)

· What three variables are always present in an experiment? How are they different? (pg. 7)

· What system of measurement is used in science? What units are used for mass, time, volume and length? How can you easily convert between different “sizes” of the same unit? (pg. 24)

4) Compare and contrast the uses and practicality of different types of microscopes (pgs. 191-192)

5) Explain the difference between a hypothesis and a theory (pgs. 7,13)

6) In an example, identify which characteristic of life is most clearly being demonstrated (pgs. 17-21)

7) Explain the structure of an atom and how it differs with isotopes and ions (pgs. 34-35, 37)

8) Compare and contrast the two ways that compounds form (bonding, pgs 37)

9) Explain water’s polarity and how it attributes to it’s unique properties (pgs. 40-42)

10) Use the pH scale to determine the strength and characteristics of acids and bases (pgs. 43-44)

I Can Statements for Sections 2-3,4:

  • Describe the unique qualities of Carbon

  • Describe the structures and functions of each of the four groups of macromolecules

  • Explain how chemical reactions affect chemical bonds

  • Describe how energy changes affect how easily a chemical reaction will occur

  • Explain why enzymes are important to living things

I Can Statements for Chapter 3:

  • Describe the study of ecology

  • Explain how biotic and abiotic factors influence an ecosystem

  • Describe the methods used to study ecology

  • Define primary producers

  • Describe how consumers obtain energy and nutrients

  • Trace the flow of energy through living systems

  • Identify the three types of ecological pyramids

  • Describe how matter cycles among the living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem

  • Describe how water cycles through the biosphere

  • Explain why nutrients are important in living systems

  • Describe how the availability of nutrients affects the productivity of ecosystems

I Can Statements for Chapter 4:

  • Differentiate between weather and climate

  • Identify the factors that influence climate

  • Define niche

  • Describe the role competition plays in shaping communities

  • Describe the role predation and herbivory play in shaping communities

  • Identify three types of symbiotic relationships in nature

  • Describe how ecosystems recover from a disturbance

  • Compare succession after a natural disaster with succession after a human caused disturbance

  • Describe and compare the characteristics of the major land biomes

  • Identify the areas that are not classified into a major biome

I Can Statements for Chapter 5:

  • List the characteristics used to describe a population

  • Identify factors that affect population growth

  • Describe exponential and Logistic growth

  • Identify factors that determine carrying capacity

  • Identify the limiting factors that depend on population density

  • Identify the limiting factors that do not depend on population density

  • Discuss the trend of human population growth

  • Explain why population growth rates differ in countries throughout the world

I Can Statements for Chapter 6:

  • Describe human activities that can affect the biosphere

  • Describe the relationship between resource use and sustainable development

  • Describe how human activities affect soil and land

  • Describe how human activities affect water resources

  • Describe how human activities affect air resources

  • Define biodiversity and explain its value

  • Identify current threats to biodiversity

  • Describe how biodiversity can be preserved

I Can Statements for Chapter 7:

  • State the cell theory

  • Distinguish between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

  • Describe the structure and function of the cell nucleus

  • Describe the role of vacuoles, lysosomes, and the cytoskeleton

  • Identify the role of ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus in making proteins

  • Describe the function of the chloroplasts and mitochondria in the cell

  • Describe the function of the cell membrane

  • Compare and contrast active and passive transport

  • Explain how unicellular and multicellular organisms maintain homeostasis

I Can Statements for Chapter 8:

  • Describe the role of ATP in Cellular activities

  • Explain where plants get the energy they need to produce food

  • Explain the role of light and pigments in photosynthesis

  • Explain the role of electron carrier molecules in photosynthesis

  • State the overall equation for photosynthesis

  • Describe what happens during the light dependent reactions

  • Describe what happens during the Calvin Cycle

  • Identify factors that affect the rate at which photosynthesis occurs

I Can Statements for Chapter 9:

  • Explain where organisms get the energy the need for life processes.

  • Define cellular respiration

  • Compare photosynthesis and cellular respiration

  • Describe what happens during glycolysis.

  • Describe what happens during the Krebs cycle

  • Explain how high-energy electrons are used by the electron transport chain

  • Identify how much ATP cellular respiration generates

  • Explain how organisms get energy in the absence of oxygen

I Can Statements for Chapter 12:

  • Summarize the process of bacterial transformation

  • Describe the role of bacteriophages in identifying genetic material

  • Identify the role of DNA in heredity

  • Identify the chemical components of DNA

  • Discuss the experiments leading to the identification of DNA as the molecule that carries the genetic code

  • Describe the steps leading to the development of the double-helix model of DNA

  • Summarize the events of DNA replication

  • Compare DNA replication in prokaryotes with that of eukaryotes

I Can Statements for Chapter 10:

  • Explain the problems that growth causes for cells

  • Compare sexual and asexual reproduction

  • Describe the role of chromosomes in cell division

  • Name the main events of the cell cycle

  • Describe what happens during the four phases of mitosis

  • Describe the process of cytokinesis

  • Describe how the cell cycle is regulated

  • Explain how cancer cells are different from other cells

  • Describe the process of differentiation.

  • Define stem cells and explain their importance.

  • Identify the possible benefits and issues related to stem cell research.

I Can Statements for Chapter 13:

  • Contrast RNA and DNA

  • Explain the process of transcription

  • Identify the genetic code and explain how it is read

  • Summarize the process of translation

  • Describe the “central dogma” of molecular biology

  • Define mutations and describe different types of mutations

  • Describe the effects mutations can have on genes

I Can Statements for Chapter 11:

  • Describe Mendel’s studies and conclusions about inheritance

  • Describe what happens during segregation

  • Explain how geneticists use the principles of probability to make Punnett squares

  • Explain the principle of independent assortment

  • Explain how Mendel’s principles apply to all organisms

  • Describe the relationship between genes and the environment

  • Contrast the number of chromosomes in body cells and gametes

  • Summarize the events of meiosis

  • Contrast meiosis and mitosis

  • Describe how alleles from different genes can be inherited together

I Can Statements for Chapter 14:

  • Identify the types of human chromosomes in a karyotype

  • Describe the patterns of inheritance of human traits

  • Explain how pedigrees are used to study human traits

  • Explain how small changes in DNA cause genetic disorders

  • Summarize the problems caused by nondisjunction

  • Summarize the methods of DNA analysis

  • State the goals of the human genome project and explain what we have learned from it thus far

I Can Statements for Chapter 15:

  • Explain the purpose of selective breeding

  • Explain how people increase in genetic diversity

  • Explain how scientists manipulate DNA

  • Describe the importance of recombinant DNA

  • Define transgenic and define the usefulness of some transgenic organisms to humans

  • Describe the benefits of genetic engineering as they relate to agriculture and industry

  • Explain how recombinant DNA technology can improve human health

  • Summarize the process of DNA fingerprinting and explaining its uses

  • Describe some of the issues that relate to biotechnology

  • Identify some of the pros and cons of genetically modified food

  • Describe some of the ethical issues relating to biotechnology

I Can Statements for Chapter 16:

  • State Charles Darwin’s contribution to science

  • Describe the three patterns of biodiversity noted by Darwin

  • Identify the conclusions drawn by Hutton and Lyell about Earth’s history

  • Describe Lamarck’s hypothesis of evolution

  • Describe Malthus’ view of population growth

  • Explain the role of inherited variation in artificial selection

  • Describe the conditions under which natural selection occurs

  • Explain the principle of common descent

  • Explain how geologic distribution of species relates to their evolutionary history

  • Explain how fossils and the fossil record document the descent of modern species from the ancient ancestors

  • Describe what homologous structures and embryology suggest about the process of evolutionary change

  • Explain how molecular evidence can be used to trace the process of evolution

  • Explain the results of the Grant’s investigation of adaptation in Galapagos finches

I Can Statements for Chapter 17:

  • Define evolution in generic terms

  • Identify the main sources of genetic variation in a population

  • State what determines the number of phenotypes for a trait

  • Explain how natural selection affects single-gene and polygenic traits

  • Describe genetic drift

  • Explain how different factors affect genetic equilibrium

  • Identify the types of isolation that can lead to the formation of a new species

  • Describe the current hypothesis about Galapagos finch speciation

  • Explain how molecular clocks are used

  • Explain how new genes evolve

  • Describe how Hox genes may be involved in evolutionary change

I Can Statements for Chapter 18:

  • Describe the goals of binomial nomenclature and systematics

  • Identify the taxa in the classification devised by Linnaeus

  • Describe the difference between evolutionary classification and Linnaean Classification

  • Describe how to interpret a cladogram

  • Explain the use of DNA sequences in classification

  • Name the six kingdoms of life as they are currently identified

  • Explain what the tree of life represents

I Can Statements for Chapter 19:

  • Explain what information fossils can reveal about ancient life

  • Differentiate between relative dating and radiometric dating

  • Identify the divisions of the geologic time scale

  • Describe how environmental processes and living things have shaped life on Earth

  • Identify the processes that influence survival or extinction of a species or clade

  • Contrast gradualism and punctuated equilibrium

  • Name two important patterns in macroevolution

  • Explain the evolutionary characteristics of coevolving organisms

  • Identify some of the hypotheses about early Earth and the origin of life

  • Explain the endosymbiotic theory

  • Explain the importance of sexual reproduction in evolution

I Can Statements for Chapter 20:

  • Explain how viruses reproduce

  • Explain how viruses cause infection (lytic and lysogenic)

  • Explain how the two groups of prokaryotes differ (Eubacteria and Archaebacteria)

  • Describe how prokaryotes vary in structure and function

  • Explain the role of bacteria in the living world

  • Explain how bacteria cause disease

  • Explain how viruses cause disease

  • Identify examples of bacteria being beneficial to the environment and to the human race

I Can Statements for Chapter 21:

  • Describe what a protist is

  • Describe how protists are related to other eukaryotes

  • Describe the various methods of protist locomotion

  • Describe how protists reproduce

  • Describe the ecological significance of photosynthetic protists

  • Describe how heterotrophic protists obtain food

  • Identify the symbiotic relationships that involve protists

  • Identify the defining characteristics of fungi

  • Describe how fungi affect homeostasis

I can Statements for Taxonomy:

  • Identify basic animal structures from each taxon discussed.

  • Organize (classify) animals by different characteristics into phyla, classes, and orders.

I Can Statements for Chapter 31

  • Identify the structures of the nervous system

  • Describe the function of neurons

  • Describe how a nerve impulse is transmitted

  • Discuss the functions of the brain and spinal cord

  • Describe the effects of drugs on the brain

  • Describe the functions of the sensory division of the peripheral nervous system

  • Describe the functions of the motor division of the peripheral nervous system

  • Discuss the sense of touch and identify the various types of sensory receptors in the skin

  • Explain the relationship between smell and taste

  • Identify the parts of the ears that make hearing and balance possible

  • Describe the major parts of the eye and explain how the eye enables us to see

I Can Statements for Chapter 30:

  • Explain how food provides energy

  • Identify the essential nutrients that the body needs and how they are important to your body

  • Explain how to plan a balanced diet

  • Describe the organs of the digestive system and explain their functions

  • Explain what happens during digestion

  • Describe how nutrients are absorbed into the blood stream and how wastes are eliminated from the body

  • Describe the structures of the excretory system and explain their functions

  • Explain how the kidneys clean your blood

  • Describe how the kidneys maintain homeostasis

I Can Statements for Chapter 32:

  • List the structures and functions of the skeletal system

  • Describe the structure of a typical bone

  • List the different kinds of joints and describe the range of motion of each

  • Describe the structure and function of each of the three types of muscle tissue

  • Describe the mechanism of muscle contraction

  • Describe the interaction of muscle bones and tendons to produce movement

  • State the functions of the integumentary system

  • Identify the structures of the integumentary system

  • Describe some of the problems that affect the skin

I Can Statements for Chapter 33:

  • Identify the functions of the human circulatory system

  • Describe the structure of the heart and explain how it pumps blood through the body

  • Name three types of blood vessels in the circulatory system

  • Explain the functions of blood plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets

  • Describe the role of the lymphatic system

  • List three common circulatory diseases

  • Describe the connection between cholesterol and circulatory disease

  • Identify the structures of the respiratory system and describe their functions

  • Describe gas exchange

  • Describe how breathing is controlled

  • Describe the effects of smoking on the respiratory system

I Can Statements for Chapter 34:

  • Describe the structure and function of the endocrine system

  • Explain how hormones work

  • Identify the functions of the major endocrine glands

  • Explain how endocrine glands are controlled

  • Describe the effects that sex hormones have on development

  • Name and discuss the structures of the male and female reproductive system

  • Describe commonly occurring sexually transmitted diseases

  • Describe fertilization and early stages of development

  • Identify the major events of later stages of development

I Can Statements for Chapter 22:

  • Describe what plants need to survive.

  • Describe how the first plants evolved.

  • Explain the process of alternation of generations.

  • Identify the characteristics of green algae.

  • Describe the adaptions of bryophytes.

  • Explain the importance of vascular tissue.

  • Describe the reproductive adaptations of seed plants.

  • Identify the reproductive structures of gymnosperms.

  • Identify the reproductive structures of angiosperms.

  • Identify some of the ways angiosperms can be categorized.