Subject: AP Biology – Content MapInstructor: Clark/Valentine

Topic: Diversity of OrganismsGrade: 11/12

Dates:

Concept: Origin of Life classification
3.1.12.C3 – Analyze the evidence to support various theories of evolution.
3.1.B.A1 – Explain that some structures in eukaryotic cells developed from early prokaryotic cells. / Concept: Bacteria and viruses
3.1.B.A1 – Compare and contrast the cellular structures and degrees of complexity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms.
3.1.B.A4 – compare and contrast a virus and a cell. Relate the stages of viral cycles to the cell cycle. / Concept: Protists
3.1.12.A5 – Analyze how structure is related to function at all levels of biological organization from molecules to organisms.
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are taxonomic categories and how do they indicate relatedness?
How may have life spontaneously arisen on Earth?
What factors led to the divergence of organisms? / Lesson Essential Questions:
How are bacteria different from eukaryotes in terms of genome, organelles, size, and reproduction?
What are the unique features of bacterial life processes?
What are the components of a virus?
What is the difference between lytic and lysogenic cycles? / Lesson Essential Questions:
Are protists their own kingdom?
How do major groups of protists compare to other eukaryotes?
Vocabulary:
Domain
Phylogeny
Cladogram
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Proteinoids
Endosymbiosis / Vocabulary:
Photoautotrophic
Chemoautotrophic
Photoheterotrophic
Chemoheterotrophic
Peptidoglycan
Glycocalyx
Capsule
Pili
Plasmid
Conjugation
Endospore
Lytic
Lysogenic
Retrovirus
Prion / Vocabulary:
Euglenoids
Giardiasis
Cyst
Amoeba
Ciliates
Contractile vacuole
Dinoflagellate
Oomycote
Slime mold
Algae
Concept: Plants
3.1.12.A5 – Analyze how structure is related to function at all levels of biological organization from molecules to organisms. / Concept: Fungi
3.1.12.A5 – Analyze how structure is related to function at all levels of biological organization from molecules to organisms. / Concept: Animals
3.1.B.A3 – Explain how all organisms begin their life cycles as a single cell and that in multicelluar organisms, successive generations of embryonic cells form by cell division.
3.1.12.A5 – Analyze how structure is related to function at all levels of biological organization from molecules to organisms.
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of life on land?
Explain the alternation of generations?
What are the major characteristics f the different groups of plants?
What is the evolutionary significance of seeds and pollen? / Lesson Essential Questions:
What are the characteristics of fungi?
What important ecological roles to fungi play in ecosystems? / Lesson Essential Questions:
What are the stages of animal development?
What advances in body structure made animals larger and more complex?
How does symmetry, body cavity development, and fate of the blastopore determine an animals’ phyla?
Vocabulary:
Vascular plants
Bryophytes
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Xylem
Phloem
Cuticle
Stomata
Gametophyte
Sporophyte
Spores
Pollen grains
Megaspore
Ovule
Monocot
dicot / Vocabulary:
Lichen
Mycorrhiza
Saprobes
Zygomycota
Ascomycota
Basidiomycota
Mycelium
Hypha
Asci / Vocabulary:
Blastula
Gastrula
Protostome
deuterostome
Ectoderm
Endoderm
Mesoderm
Radial symmetry
Bilateral symmetry
Coelom
Pseudocoelomate
Acoelomate
Porifera
Cnidaria
Platyhelminthes
Nematoda
Rotifera
Mollusca
Annelida
Arthropoda
Echinodermata
Chordate
Notochord
Amniote
Pharyngeal slits