Honors Biology
Welcome to HONORS Biology!
Honors Biology is designed for freshman and sophomore students with an ambition to continue studies in the life sciences. This course will move at a faster pace than CP Biology and cover a wider range of life science-related topics. Honors Biology will examine biological concepts from a molecular, cellular, and organism level. There will be an integrated lab portion to the course and it will fulfill the requirements of life science graduation standards. Additionally, honors biology will expose students to topics such as mitosis/meiosis, evolution, and species interactions. Students will develop skills including college readiness, writing to communicate scientific information, and life science lab techniques
Semester 1
Scientific Theory & Living Things
Unit 1 - Principles of Ecology & Biogeochemical Cycles
Unit 2 - Population Ecology & Biodiversity and Conservation
Unit 3 - History of Life & Evolution
Unit 4- Cellular Structure and Function
Unit 5 - Chemistry in Biology
Semester 2
Unit 6 - Cellular Energy
Unit 7 - Cellular Reproduction (Mitosis)
Unit 8 - Meiosis and Genetics
Unit 9 - Molecular Genetics (DNA to mRNA to Protein)
Unit 10 - Genetics & Biotechnology