Life Science Essentials 

Hannah Robinson, Doris Kraus, Niamh Gray-Wilson, Jean Brainard, Sarah Johnson, Jane Willan, and Corliss Karasov

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1:  Kitchen Science and the Scientific Method

  1.1  Europa Clipper and the Characteristics of Life

1.2  Scientific Investigations

1.3  Cell Theory

1.4  The Microscope

1.5  Plant Cell Structure

1.6  Onion Skin and Root Cells

1.7  Kitchen Botany of Apple Pie and Gazpacho

1.8  The Leaf

1.9  Photosynthesis

1.10  Cilantro Stomata Analysis

1.11  Stem

1.12  The Root

1.13  Basic Parts of a Cell and Cell Organelles

1.14  Cell Membrane

1.15  Diffusion

1.16  Cell Transport

1.17  Transport of Substances in Plants

1.18  Modeling

1.19  The Fruit

1.20  Tomato Fruit Ripening

1.21  Francis Bacon: Novum Organum (1620) Excerpt Discussion

1.22  Reproduction

1.23  Angiosperms

1.24  Pea Plants

1.25  Mendel's Laws

1.26  Punnett Squares

1.27  Fast Plant Genetics Lab

  1.28  Honeycrisp Genetics

1.29  Cloning

1.30  Grains of the World

1.31  Plant Evolution

2. Diversity of Life & Analyzing Data

t2.1  First Cell

2.2  Life and the Geologic Time Scale

2.3  Bacteria

2.4  Bacteria and Humans

2.5  Human Microbiome

2.6  Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells

2.7  Viruses

2.8  Lynn Margulis: Symbiotic Planet (1988) Excerpt Discussion

2.9  Importance of Protists

2.10  Fungi

2.11  Cellular Respiration

2.12  The Precambrian

2.13  Invertebrate Diversity

2.14  Mass Extinction

2.15  Importance of Arthropods

2.16  Fish

2.17  Amphibians

2.18  Importance of Mammals

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3. Biotechnology and the Rainbow Papaya: Asking Questions

3.1  Asking Scientific Questions

3.2  DNA

3.3  DNA Structure and Replication

3.4  Mutation

3.5  Mitosis

3.6  Cell Cycle

3.7  Meiosis

3.8  Human Genome

3.9  Genetic Disorders

3.10  DNA Fingerprinting

3.11  Molecular Genetics Overview

3.12  Recombinant DNA

3.13  CRISPR overview

3.14  How to Read Nonfiction Reports

3.15  Rainbow Papaya Investigation

4. The Walking Whale & Constructing Explanations

4.1  Organelles Part 2: Animal Cells

4.2  Nucleus

4.3  Scientific Explanations and Interpretations

4.4  Influences on Darwin

4.5  Natural Selection

4.6  The Distribution of California Pupfish and Friends

4.7  Fossils

4.8  The Case of Ambulocetus, the Walking Whale

4.9  Evolution Evidence

4.10  Phylogenetic Classification

4.11  Limits of Scientific Explanations

4.12  Stephen Jay Gould: Wonderful Life (1989) Excerpt Discussion

5. Ecology of Parachuting Cats & Claim-Evidence-Reasoning

5.1  Ecology Overview

5.2  Ecosystems

5.3  Ecological Organization

5.4  Habitat and Niche

5.5  Energy Flow

5.6  Producer

5.7  Consumers and Decomposers

5.8  Food Chains and Food Webs

5.9  Planning a Large Scale Investigation

5.10  Biodiversity Plan for My Park

5.11  Biome

5.12  Predation

5.13  Competition

5.14  Symbiosis

5.15  Population Growth Patterns

5.16  Human Population

5.17  Carbon Cycle

5.18  Importance of Biodiversity

5.19  Habitat Destruction

5.20  Parachuting Cats Investigation

5.21  E. O. Wilson: The Diversity of Life (1992) Excerpt Discussion

6. A Frog, a Halibut, a Human and a Tree and Building Scientific Models

6.1  Human Body

6.2  How to Analyze Data

6.3  Building Scientific Models 

6.4  Homeostasis

6.5  Skeletal System

6.6  Muscles

6.7  Digestion

6.8  Levers of Neck, Arm and Heel

6.9  Cardiovascular System

6.10  Heart

6.11  Blood Vessels

6.12  Blood

6.13  Respiratory System

6.14  Respiratory System Organs

6.15  Breathing

6.16  Dissection: Tree, Octopus, Frog

6.17  Parts of the Immune System

6.18  Diagnose a Disease by Analyzing Data

6.19  Nervous System

6.20  Nerve Impulse

6.21  Teen Brain

6.22  Galileo Galilei: The Assayer (1623) Excerpt Discussion