College Prep Biology I Syllabus
Mrs. Bixler
Textbook: Biology by Miller and Levine (Dragonfly book)
Unit 1 Composition of Living Things
Chapter 1, Sec. 1-3 Studying life
Chapter 2 Chemistry of Life
Unit 2 Living Things and Their Environment
Chapter 3 The Biosphere
Chapter 4, Sec. 4-2 What Shapes an Ecosystem?
Sec. 4-3 Biomes
Unit 3 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Chapter 8 Photosynthesis
Chapter 9 Cellular Respiration
Unit 4 Scientific Process and Theories
Chapter 1 Sec. 1-1 What is Science?
Sec. 1-2 How Scientists Work
Chapter 15 Sec. 15-1 The Puzzle of Life’s Diversity
Sec. 15-3 Darwin Presents His Case
Unit 5 Cell Parts and Processes
Chapter 7 Cell Structure and Function
Unit 6 Cell Growth and Reproduction
Chapter 10 Cell Growth and Division
Chapter 11 Sec. 11-4 Meiosis
Unit 7 Genetics
Chapter 11 Sec. 11-1 The Work of Gregor Mendel
Sec. 11-2 Probability and Punnett Squares
Sec. 11-3 Exploring Mendelian Genetics
Chapter 14 Human Genome
Chapter 16 Evolution of Populations
Unit 8 DNA, RNA and Their Products
Chapter 12 Sec. 12-1 DNA
Sec. 12-2 Chromosomes and DNA Replication
Sec. 12-3 RNA and Protein Synthesis
Sec. 12-4 Mutations