Unit 7: Cellular Reproduction
Essential Question 1: What is the evidence for the biotic origin of life?
Essential Question 2: What are the stages of the cell cycle?
Essential Question 3: What is the role of the cell cycle in organisms?
Homework
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
Edward Abbey (American Writer )
Class Notes in pdf
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Labs . Diagrams . Other Stuff
- Animation:: Cell Cycle Animation by Otterspoor
CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVES
Initial Understanding:
- Describe the debate surrounding spontaneous generation and how Redi’s and Pasteur’s experiments ended that debate.
Developing an Interpretation:
- Analyze the ways in which the events of the cell cycle are controlled.
Making Connections:
- Analyze the significance of meiosis with respect to adaptation and evolution.
Taking a Critical Stance:
- Sequence the events of the cell cycle in which new body cells are produced.
- Sequence the series of events by which reproductive cells are produced in complex plants and animals.
Questions of the week:
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