Reproduction and Heredity - Reproduction is the process by which organisms give rise to offspring. Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring. All organisms must be able to grow and reproduce. The student will engage in investigations that integrate the process standards and lead to the discovery of the following objectives:
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Organism
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4 - Integrate (Investigations)
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4 - I can integrate process standards in an investigation to discover more about this standard.
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A. Organisms grow and reproduce to produce offspring.
B. Offspring traits are heredited from parents.
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A.1 What is the process of reproduction?
A.2 How is reproduction different from one organism to another?
B.1 What are traits that hare heredited by offspring?
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Similarities among organisms are found in anatomical features, which can be used to infer the degree of relatedness among organisms.
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Organism Similarities
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4 - Integrate (Investigations)
2 - Infer (Degree of relatedness among organisms)
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4 - I can integrate process standards in an investigation to discover more about this standard.
2 - I can infer degree of relatedness among organisms using similarities found in there anatomical features.
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A. Similarities of anatomical features across organisms help infer how related they might be.
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A.1 What anatomical features might be used to infer how related one organism is to another?
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Characteristics of an organism result from inheritance and from interactions with the environment (e.g., genes, chromosomes, DNA, inherited traits, cell division).
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Inheritance e.g.
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4 - Integrate (Investigations)
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4 - I can integrate process standards in an investigation to discover more about this standard.
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A. The interactions to an environment and the inheritance of an organism is what determines its characteristics.
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A.1 How can the inheritance of an mushroom be explained?
A.2 How does inheritance determine characteristics of an monarch butterfly?
A.3 In what ways might an earthworm's interactions with its environment affect its characteristics?
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