UNIT FOUR: CYTOLOGY: THE BASIS FOR LIFE

UNIT OBJECTIVES

UPON COMPLETION OF THIS UNIT, THE STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

¨ DEFINE CORE TERMINOLOGY.

¨ EXPLAIN THE CELL THEORY AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE CELL DISCOVERIES.

¨ IDENTIFY AND GIVE THE FUNCTION OF ALL THE STRUCTURES OF THE PLANT AND ANIMAL CELL.

¨ DISTINGUISH BETWEEN EUKARYOTES AND PROKARYOTES.

¨ COMPARE AND CONTRAST PLANT AND ANIMAL CELLS.

¨ DESCRIBE HOW MATERIAL IS PASSED THROUGH, AND BETWEEN CELLS.

¨ DISCUSS HOW CELL SPECIALIZATION WORKS AND HOW THE LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION ARE RELATED.

¨ LOCATE VARIOUS ORGANELLES IN REPRESENTATIVE PLANT AND ANIMAL CELLS DURING LAB.

¨ EXPLAIN HOW CELL COMMUNICATION IS ACHIEVED.

¨ RESEARCH A DISEASE PERTAINING TO A PROBLEM IN THE CELL. PRESENT AN ARTICLE ON THIS TOPIC.

¨ UNDERSTAND THE EXPERIMENTS THAT LED TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS.

¨ EXPLAIN THE EQUATION FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS.

¨ DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE LIGHT REACTION AND DARK REACTIONS.

¨ DESCRIBE THE PROCESS OF GLYCOLYSIS AND CELL RESPIRATION.

¨ DISCUSS THE KREBS CYCLE.

¨ RELATE FERMENTATION TO GLYCOLYSIS.

¨ TABULATE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF ATP GENERATED DURING PHOTOSYNTHESIS.

¨ EXPLAIN THE HISTORICAL EXPERIMENTS WHICH LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF DNA AND ITS STRUCTURE.

¨ DESCRIBE THE STRUCTURE OF DNA AND RNA.

¨ TRACE DNA REPLICATION.

¨ COMPARE THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF DNA AND RNA.

¨ TRACE THE PROCESS OF TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION.

¨ EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF DNA REPLICATION, TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION.

¨ EXPLAIN THE SURFACE AREA TO VOLUME RATIO PROBLEM IN CELL GROWTH.

¨ DESCRIBE FACTORS THAT EFFECT CELL GROWTH.

¨ LIST AND EXPLAIN THE CELL CYCLE, I.E. MITOSIS, INTERPHASE, CYTOKINESIS.

¨ EXPLAIN THE EVENTS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF MITOSIS.

¨ EXPLAIN THE EVENTS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF MEIOSIS.

¨ COMPARE AND CONTRAST MITOSIS AND MEIOSIS.

¨ DISCUSS HOW EVENTS IN MEIOSIS CAN LEAD TO GENETIC VARIATION.

TEXT RESOURCES: CHAPTERS SEVEN THROUGH TEN, PART OF ELEVEN AND TWELVE