BI30-SDS: Student-Directed Study

BI30-SDS1: Create and carry out a plan to explore one or more topics of personal interest relevant to Biology 30 in depth.

BI30-SDS1.b: Carry out an experiment following established scientific protocols to investigate a question of interest related to one or more of the topics of Biology 30.

Seed Germination

BI30-LE: Life and Evolution

BI30-LE2: Examine the significance of evolution as a key unifying theme in biology through the principles, processes and patterns of biological evolution.

BI30-LE2.b: Outline the key principles (e.g., descent with modification, fitness as a result of adaptations and struggle for existence) and processes (e.g., natural selection, genetic drift and selective breeding) of biological evolution.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Microevolution
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric

BI30-LE2.c: Investigate how humans use selective breeding (i.e., artificial selection) to enhance desirable characteristics in organisms.

Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection

BI30-LE2.g: Discuss how Darwin’s observations informed the development of the theory of natural selection as a mechanism of evolution.

Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric

BI30-LE2.h: Recognize how the principles of natural selection occur at the level of the individual and may result in the evolution of the population.

Microevolution
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric

BI30-LE2.i: Examine how particular selective pressures (e.g., competition, predation, changes in climate, parasitism and pollution) acting on an individual can influence a population over time.

Microevolution
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric

BI30-LE2.l: Examine how scientists use the fossil record, radioactive dating, comparative embryology and homologous and analogous structures as evidence of biological evolution.

Human Evolution - Skull Analysis

BI30-OL: Organization of Life

BI30-OL1: Investigate cell structure and processes, including energy transfer and transport of materials, in unicellular and multicellular organisms which are representative of each kingdom.

BI30-OL1.a: Pose questions regarding the diverse ways in which organisms perform life’s processes such as locomotion, reproduction, acquiring energy and responding to stimuli.

Dichotomous Keys

BI30-OL1.i: Design, construct and evaluate the function of a model to demonstrate passive and active transport of materials at the interface of the cell membrane.

Osmosis

BI30-OL2: Compare the anatomies, physiologies and behaviours of multicellular organisms including protists, fungi, plants and animals.

BI30-OL2.e: Explore the behavioural, structural and physiological adaptations that enable organisms to defend themselves against threats, such as pathogens, predators and disease.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection

BI30-OL3: Explore how the dynamic nature of biological classification reflects advances in scientific understanding of relationships among organisms.

BI30-OL3.a: Discuss how classification systems are designed by humans to meet various needs.

Dichotomous Keys

BI30-OL3.f: Create and use dichotomous keys to gain insights into the challenges of biological classification.

Dichotomous Keys

BI30-GB: Genetics and Biotechnology

BI30-GB1: Explore classical (i.e., Mendelian) and current (i.e., chromosomal) understandings of biological inheritance.

BI30-GB1.d: Discuss the importance of probability in predicting the likelihood of inheriting particular traits.

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Microevolution

BI30-GB1.e: Distinguish among patterns of inheritance (e.g., dominant and recessive alleles, sex-linked traits, codominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles and polygenic inheritance) of heritable traits.

Chicken Genetics
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

BI30-GB1.f: Determine an organism’s phenotype from its genotype, and where possible, its genotype from its phenotype.

Chicken Genetics
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

BI30-GB1.g: Construct Punnett squares for monohybrid crosses using P1 genotypes (i.e., homozygous and heterozygous) to determine genotypic and phenotypic frequencies for F1 and F2 generations.

Chicken Genetics
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

BI30-GB2: Investigate how genetic information is stored, transmitted and expressed at the molecular level.

BI30-GB2.c: Assess the importance of the structure of the DNA molecule to its ability to store, transmit and express genetic information.

Building DNA

BI30-GB2.d: Model molecular genetic processes of DNA replication and protein synthesis (i.e., transcription and translation), including the roles of DNA, mRNA, tRNA and rRNA.

RNA and Protein Synthesis

BI30-GB2.g: Assess the role of genetic mutation in the process of evolution.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection