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Georgia Performance Standards for High School Biology
HS Biology GPS Standards Resources organized with GPS Elements:
SB4 Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

a. Investigate the relationships among organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, and biomes.
b. Explain the flow of matter and energy through ecosystems by arranging components of a food chain according to energy flow, comparing the quantity of energy in the steps of an energy pyramid, and explaining the need for cycling of major nutrients.
c. Relate environmental conditions to successional changes in ecosystems.
d. Assess and explain human activities that influence and modify the environment such as global warming, population growth, pesticide use, and water and power consumption.
e. Relate plant adaptations, including tropisms, to the ability to survive stressful environmental conditions.
f. Relate animal adaptations, including behaviors, to the ability to survive stressful environmental conditions.

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SB1 Students will analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells.

a. Explain the role of cell organelles for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, including the cell membrane, in maintaining homeostasis and cell reproduction.
Cells Alive / Cell Tour ppt / Membrane Transport tutorial / Cell Transport animations / Cell Transport ppt / Onion Mitosis / Root Tip Mitosis Lab / On-line Onion Root Tip Mitosis / ppt Mitosis /The Cell Cycle
b. Explain how enzymes function as catalysts.
Enzyme Inquiry Lab / Enzymes ppt / Enzyme animation / Toothpic-Ase Activity
c. Identify the function of the four major macromolecules.
Chemistry of Life / BioChem Basics ppt / Macromolecules ppt / Condensation & Hydrolysis
d. Explain the impact of water on life processes (i.e., osmosis, diffusion).
Properties of Water ppt / H-bonds in Water animation
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SB2 Students will analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.

a. Distinguish between DNA and RNA.
DNA Structure / Replication / DNA From the Beginning / DNA Structure `Movie / DNA Replication ` Movie / DNA Extraction from saliva /DNA Extraction from strawberries
b. Explain the role of DNA in storing and transmitting cellular information.
DNA from the Beginning: Molecules of Genetics
Hershey & Chase; Meselson & Stahl Experiments
Protein Synthesis animations / another Protein Synthesis Animation / Protein Synthesis Role Play / funky 60's version / Protein Synthesis Video / Real Time Protein Syn.
c. Using Mendel's laws, explain the role of meiosis in reproductive variability
DNA from the Beginning: Classical Genetics / Mendelian Genetics / Mendelian Genetics ppt / Learn.Genetics / Meiosis animations / Meiosis tutorial / Meiosis Tutorial / Meiosis Animation / Rebops / Pop-It Bead Meiosis
d. Describe the relationships between changes in DNA and potential appearance of new traits including alterations during replication, insertions, deletions, substitutions, and mutagenic factors that can alter DNA, such as high energy radiation and chemicals.
DNA from the Beginning: Genetic Organization and Control
Human Chromosomal Abnormalities
e. Compare the advantages of sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction in different situations.
f. Examine the use of DNA technology in forensics, medicine, and agriculture.

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SB3 Students will derive the relationship between single-celled and multi-celled organisms and the increasing complexity of systems.

a. Explain the cycling of energy through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration. ATP ppt / Photosynthesis & Respiration Lab / Cellular Respiration ppt / Fermentation / SciLinks Tutorial (CR) / Chemiosmosis / Electron Transport & ATP Synthesis / Photosynthesis animations / Light Reactions / SciLinks Tutorial (PS)
b. Compare how structures and function vary between the six kingdoms (archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals).
Taxonomy ppt / Biological Classification
c. Examine the evolutionary basis of modern classification systems.
d. Compare and contrast viruses with living organisms. HIV Structure / HIV infection cycle /

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SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution.

Variation in Species Activity / Population Genetics Simulation / Hardy-Weinberg Problems
a. Trace the history of the theory.
Darwin and Evolution Evidence ppt / Natural Selection / Talk Origins Archive
b. Explain the history of life in terms of biodiversity, ancestry, and the rates of evolution. Speciation / Major Phyla Adaptaions & Life Cycles
c. Explain how fossil and biochemical evidence support the theory. Discover a Fossil Kit / amino acids in cytochrome-c / ppt Evolution Evidence
d. Relate natural selection to changes in organisms.
Evolution & Natural Selection
e. Recognize the role of evolution to biological resistance (pesticide and antibiotic resistance). Berkeley site / Humans as Evolutionary Force / Evolution and Nature of Science