BSCS Biology: A Molecular Approach (2006) is a comprehensive, inquiry-based approach to biology. It challenges gifted and honor students to think scientifically, to integrate concepts, to analyze data, and to explore complex issues. This research-based program, developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, supports an inquiry approach to biology. It provides students with the background information needed to ask their own research questions and to conduct their own investigations. Reading age for native speakers: High School students
Features: - Reflects the latest information in molecular biology with updated content and labs. - Measures several levels of student abilities with a sequence of assessment options as students apply their knowledge to major concepts. - Provides correlations of the scope and sequence to the major AP biology themes, and of the investigations to the AP Biology Labs.
CONTENTS
Unit 1: Energy, Matter, and Organization Chapter 1: The Chemistry of Life Chapter 2: Energy, Life, and the Biosphere Chapter 3: Exchanging Materials with the Environment Chapter 4: Autotrophy: Collecting Energy from the Non-living Environment Chapter 5: Cell Respiration: Releasing Chemical Energy
Unit 2: The Cell: Homeostasis and Development Chapter 6: Cell Structures and Their Functions Chapter 7: Transport Systems Chapter 8: The Cell Cycle Chapter 9: Expressing Genetic Information Chapter 10: Animal Growth and Development Chapter 11: Plant Growth and Development
Unit 3: Heredity: Continuity of Life Chapter 12: Reproduction Chapter 13: Patterns and Inheritance Chapter 14: Other forms of Inheritance Chapter 15: Advances in Molecular Genetics Chapter 16: Population Genetics
Unit 4: Evolution Chapter 17: The Origin of Life Chapter 18: Diversity and Variation Chapter 19: Changes in Species Chapter 20: Human Evolution
Unit 5: Responding to the Environment Chapter 21: Nervous Systems Chapter 22: Behavior Chapter 23: Immune Systems
Unit 6: Interactions and Interdependence Chapter 24: Ecosystem Structure and Function Chapter 25: Change in Ecosystems
Biological Challenges
Theory - Theory in Science - Materialism and Vitalism - Engineering Life - What is a Gene? - The Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium - Sociobiology: An Evolutionary Theory of Behavior - Organism Earth: The Gaia Hypothesis
Appendices - 1A The Periodic Table of the Elements - 1B Radioisotopes and Research in Biology - 4A ATP Synthesis in Chloroplasts and Mitochondria - 6A Preparing Cells for Study - 12A Pollination by Insects Aids Fertilization - 13A The Chi-Square Test - 13B Gene Mapping - 20A Physical Adaptations - 20B The Old Man from La Chapelle-aux-Saints - 20C Cultural Evolution - 22A Innate Behavior - 23A Antibody Classes - 23B Generating Antibody Diversity