Morris, Castignetti, Lepri, and Relyea Biology for the AP® Course, 1st edition
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Learning Goals
Four Big Ideas form a fundamental basis for understanding biology.
Scientific inquiry is a deliberate way of asking and answering questions about nature.
LG 0.1 Four Big Ideas form a fundamental basis for understanding biology.
Big Idea 1: Evolution: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.
LG 0.1 Four Big Ideas form a fundamental basis for understanding biology.
Big Idea 2: Energetics: Biological systems use energy and molecular building blocks to grow, reproduce, and maintain dynamic homeostasis.
LG 0.1 Four Big Ideas form a fundamental basis for understanding biology.
Big Idea 3: Information storage and transmission: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes
LG 0.1 Four Big Ideas form a fundamental basis for understanding biology.
Big Idea 4: Systems Interactions : Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions exhibit complex properties
How can we relate these 4 ideas to an oak tree in the forest?
LG 0.2 Scientific inquiry is a deliberate way of asking and answering questions about nature.
LG 0.2 Scientific inquiry is a deliberate way of asking and answering questions about nature.
James Kirkham Ramsbottom used the process of scientific inquiry to figure out what was causing the death of daffodils. Organize the description of his experiment by identifying the following:
1. The scientific (testable) question
2. The hypothesis
3. The independent variable
4. The dependent variable
5. The experimental group
6. The control group
Your Turn
The emerald ash borer is an invasive species that has destroyed ash tree populations in North America. Before the insect arrived, one forest contained 300 ash trees. A number of years after the ash borer was introduced to the area, only 60 ash trees remained. By what percent did the ash tree population decrease?
Formula for % change:
LG 0.2 Scientific inquiry is a deliberate way of asking and answering questions about nature.
LG 0.2 Scientific inquiry is a deliberate way of asking and answering questions about nature.
Normal Distribution