This college level course is driven by the following Four Big Ideas:
- Big Idea 1: Evolution - The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life
- Big Idea 2: Energy -Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis
- Big Idea 3: Information - Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes.
- Big Idea 4: System - Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties.
** The Enduring Understandings and Science Practices are embedded within the following units.