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Course Outcomes
Students are able to understand and conceptualized Life as discussed in the course.
Students are able to appreciate on the formation of living organisms and how every living organisms contribute to its development through evolution.
Students have tested theories through different experiments in the Science Laboratory seeing minute organisms using specific tools.
Course Overview and Design
This course is aligned to the College Board AP Biology Curriculum Framework and is based on four Big Ideas, which encompass core scientific principles, theories, and processes that cut across traditional boundaries and provide a broad way of thinking about living organisms and biological systems. Investigations require students to ask questions, make observations and predictions, design experiments, analyze data, and construct arguments in a collaborative setting, where they direct and monitor their progress.
THE BIG IDEAS: BIG IDEA
1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.
2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis.
3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes.
4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties