UNIT FOUR: CYTOLOGY: THE BASIS FOR LIFE

UNIT OBJECTIVES

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

¨ DEFINE CORE TERMINOLOGY.

¨ READ AND IDENTIFY KEY CONCEPTS OF THE CHAPTER.

¨ EXPLAIN THE CELL THEORY.

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

¨ DISTINGUISH BETWEEN EUKARYOTES AND PROKARYOTES.

¨ COMPARE AND CONTRAST PLANT AND ANIMAL CELLS.

¨ DESCRIBE HOW DIFFUSION, OSMOSIS, AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT WORK.

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

¨ EXPLAIN HOW CELL COMMUNICATION IS ACHIEVED.

¨ DISCUSS THE EQUATION FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS.

¨ UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF GLYCOLYSIS AND CELL RESPIRATION.

¨ 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.

¨ EXPLAIN DNA REPLICATION.

¨ COMPARE THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF DNA AND RNA.

¨ UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION.

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

¨ 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, PARTS OF EIGHT AND NINE, TEN, PART OF ELEVEN AND TWELVE