In Cambridge, most students take biology as juniors. Two overarching essential questions frame the course:
- How does our biological understanding help us make informed decisions that impact the environment and human health
- How can we use evidence to understand the biological world?
In Grade 11 Biology, instructional time should focus on three areas:
- Evolution;
- Energy; and
- Genetics
| Unit |
Essential Questions |
| Evolution (an introduction) and Life |
- How does natural selection drive past and present evolutionary processes?
- How do we know if an ecosystem is balanced?
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| Energy |
- How is energy transferred through living things and systems?
- How do processes that happen at a cellular level influence the structure, function and behavior at the level of tissues, organs, organ systems, or entire organisms?
- How do we know if an ecosystem is balanced?
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| Genetics |
- How do processes that happen at a cellular level influence the structure, function and behavior at the level of tissues, organs, organ systems, or entire organisms?
- How does DNA determine survival, inheritance, evolution, and diversity of living things?
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| Evolution (micro view) |
- How does natural selection drive past and present evolutionary processes?
- How does DNA determine survival, inheritance, evolution, and diversity of living things?
- How can we use evidence to evaluate the evolutionary relationship between organisms?
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