Reference no: EM1398493
1. Taxonomical categories from most broad to most specific
2. Characteristics of living things
3. Definition of hypothesis and why a hypothesis is needed in scientific method
4. Types of variables in a controlled experiment and why controlled experiments are necessary
5. Roles of water in living organisms and characteristics of water that support life in plants and animals
6. Enzyme function
7. Organelles found in cells and their function
8. Structure of the cell membrane
9. Know the equations for both photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
10. Be able to recognize the stages of mitosis.
11. The objective of mitosis and meiosis.
12. Understand Central Dogma and the processes used by the cell to create protein (phenotype) from DNA (genotype).
13. Definition of transcription.
14. Definition of translation.
15. Know Mendelâ€TMs First Law (the law of segregation) and Second Law (the law of independent assortment).
16. Define speciation and know the conditions that must be met for speciation to occur
17. Know the two states of a virus and be able to identify the parts of a virus
18. General structure of prokaryotic cells
19. Steps in binary fission and resulting exponential growth of bacterial cells
20. General characteristics of the four Kingdoms discussed this semester (protists, plants, fungi, animals)
21. Be able to identify negative and positive feedback systems
22. Define homeostasis
23. What are the four different tissue types in vertebrates
24. Biotic and abiotic factors that limit where an organism can live
25. Be able to identify the trophic levels of a population
26. Calculate r (intrinsic rate of increase) in a population
27. Identify the phases of the logistic growth curve
28. Identify a K-select species vs. r-select species
29. Types of symbiosis