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UNIT 1: The Nature of Life

Chapter 1 The Science of Biology
  Week 1
    1-1 What is Science?
    1-2 How Scientists Work
    1-3 Studying Life
    1-4 Tools and Procedures

 
                    ** Complete Chapter 1 Assessment **
   

Chapter 2 The Chemistry of Life
  Week 2
    2-1 The Nature of Matter
    2-2 Properties of Water
    2-3 Carbon Compounds
    2-4 Chemical Reactions and Enzymes

 
                    **
Complete Chapter 2 Assessment ** (pg. 57 1-25)**  
 
 

Chapter 3 The Biosphere
  Week 3
    3-1 What is Ecology?
    3-2 Energy Flow
    3-3 Cycles of Matter

    
                    ** Complete Chapter 3 Assessment **
   
Chapter 4 Ecosystems and Communities
  Week 4
    4-1 The Roleof Climate
    4-2 What Shapes an Ecosystem?
    4-3 Biomes
    4-4 Aquatic Ecosystems
 
                    ** Complete Chapter 4 Assessment **
 
Chapter 5 Populations
  Week 5
    5-1 How Poplulations Grow
    5-2 Limits to Growth
    5-3 Human Population Growth    
                   ** Complete Chapter 5 Assessment **
   
Chapter 6 Humans in the Biosphere
  Week 6
    6-1 A Changing Landscape
    6-2 Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
    6-3 Biodiversity
    6-4 Charting a Course for the Future
 
                    ** Complete Chapter 6 Assessment **
 
 
 
 
Chapter 7 Cell Structure and Function
  Week 7
    7-1 Life is Cellular
   7-2 Eukaryotic Cell Structure
    7-3 Cell Boundaries
   7-4 The Diversity of Cellular Life
    
                    ** Complete Chapter 7 Assessment **
   
Chapter 8 Photosynthesis
  Week 8
    8-1 Energy and Life
    8-2 Photosynthesis: An Overview
    8-3 The Reaction sof Photosynthesis
    
                    ** Complete Chapter 8 Assessment **
 
Chapter 9 Cellular Respiration
  Week 9
    9-1 Chemical Pathways
   9-2 The Kerbs cycle and Electron Transport
        
                    ** Complete Chapter Assessment **
   
Chapter 10 Cell Growth
  Week 10
    10-1 Cell Growth
   10-2 Cell Division
    10-3 Regulating the cell Cycle
    
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **
 
 
 
                             
 
Chapter 11 Introduction to Genetics
  Week 11
    11-1 The Work of Gregor Mendel
   11-2 Probability and Punnett Squares
    11-3 Exploring Mendelian Genetics
    11-4 Meiosis
    11-5 Linkage and Gene Maps
    
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 12 DNA and RNA
  Week 12
    12-1 DNA
   12-2 Chromosomes and DNA Replication
    12-3 Chromosomes and DNA Replication
    12-4 RNA and Protein Synthesis
    12-5 Gene Regulation
    
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 14 The Human Genome
  Week 14
    14-1 Human Heredity
   14-2 Human Chromosomes
    14-3 Human Molecular Genetics
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **





Chapter 15 Darwin's Theory of Evolution
  Week 15
    15-1 The Puzzle of LIfe's Diversity
   15-2 Ideas That Shaped Darwin's Thinking
    15-3 Darwin Presents His Case
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 16 Evolution of Populations
  Week 16
    16-1 Genes and Variation
   16-2 Evolution as Genetic Change
    16-3 The Process of Speciation
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 17 The History of LIfe
  Week 17
    17-1 THe Fossil Record
   17-2 Earth's Early History
    17-3 Evolution of Multicellualr Life
    17-4 Patterns of Evolution
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 18 Classification
    18-1 Finding Order in Diversity
   18-2 Modern Evolutionary Classification
    18-3 Kingdoms and Domians
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **






Chapter 19 Bacteria and Viruses
  Week 19
    19-1 Bacteria
   19-2 Viruses
    19-3 Diseases Caused by Bacteria and Viruses
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 20 Protists
  Week 20
    20-1 The Kingdom Protista
    20-2 Animallike Protists: Protozoans
    20-3 Plantlike Protists: Unicellylar Algae
    20-4 Plantlike Protists: Red, Brown, and Green Algae
    20-5 Funguslike Protists
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 21 Fungi
  Week 21
    21-1 The Kingdom of Fungi
   21-2 Classification of Fungi
    21-3 Ecology of Fungi
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **




Chapter 22 Plant Diversity
  Week 22
    21-1 Introduction to Plants
   21-2 Bryophytes
    21-3 Seedless Vascular Plants
    22-4 Seed Plants
    22-5 Angiosperms-Flowering Plants
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 23 Roots, Stems, and Leaves
  Week 23
    22-1 Introduction to Plants
   22-2 Bryophytes
    22-3 Seedless Vascular Plants
    22-4 Seed Plants
    22-5 Angiosperms-Flowering Plants
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 24 Plant Responses and Adaptations
  Week 24
    24-1 Reproduction With Cones and Flowers
   24-2 Seed Development and Germination
    24-3 plant Propagation and Agriculture
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 25 Plant Responses and Adaptations
  Week 25
    25-1 Hormones and Plant Growth
   25-2 Plant Responses
    25-3 Plant Adaptations
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **




Chapter 26 Sponges and Cnidarians
  Week 26
    26-1 Introduction to the Animal Kingdom
   26-2 Sponges
    26-3 Cnidarians


                ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **


Chapter 27 Worms and Mollusks
  Week 27
    27-1 Flatworms
   27-2 Roundworms
    27-3 Annelids
    27-4 Mollusks
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 28 Arthropods and Echinoderms
  Week 28
    28-1 Introduction to the Arthropods
   28-2 Groups of Arthropods
    28-3 Insects
    28-4 Echinoderms   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 29 Comparing Invertebrates
  Week 29
    29-1 Invertebrate Evolution
   29-2 Form and Function in Invertebrates
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **





Chapter 30 Novertebrate Chordates, Fishes, and Amphibians
  Week 30
    30-1 The Chordates
    30-2 Fishes
    30-3 Amphibians
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 31 Reptiles and Birds
  Week 31
    31-1 Reptiles
    31-2 Birds
    
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 32 Mammals
  Week 32
    32-1 Introduction to the Mammals
    32-2 Diversity of Mammals
    32-3 Primates and Human Orgins
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **


Chapter 33 Comparing Chordates
  Week 33
    33-1 Chordate Evolution
    33-2 Controlling Body Tempature
    33-3 Form and Function in Chordates
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 34 Animal Behavior
  Week 34
    34-1 Elements of Behavior
    34-2 Patterns of Behavior
    


                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **




Chapter 35 Nervous System
  Week 35
    35-1 Human Body Systems
    35-2 The Nervous System
    35-3 Divisions of the Nervous System
    35-4 The Senses
    35-5 Drugs and the Nervous System
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 36 Skeletal, Muscular, and Integumentary Systems
  Week 36
    36-1 The Skeletal System
    36-2 The Muscular System
    36-3 The Respiratory System
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 37 Circulatory and Respiratory System
  Week 37
    37-1 The Skeletal System
    37-2 The Muscular System
    37-3 The Respiratory System
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 38 Digestive and Excretory Systems
  Week 38
    38-1 Food and Nutrition
    38-2 The Process of Digestion
    38-3 The Excretory System
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 39 Endocrine and Reproductive Systems
  Week 39
    39-1 The Endocrine
    39-2 Human Endocrine
    39-3 The Reproductive System
    39-4 Fertilization and Development
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

Chapter 40 Endocrine and Reproductive Systems
  Week 40
    40-1 Infectious Disease
    40-2 The Immune System
    40-3 Immune System Disorders
    40-4 The Enviroment and Your Health
   
        
                    ** Complete Chapter  Assessment **

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