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Open Curriculum: Evidence for Evolution
With this article, students will be able to clarify the significance of a scientific theory and recognize that Darwin supported his theory with a great deal of evidence, and that many kinds of evidence since his time have further...
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Open Curriculum: Evolution Continues Today Can We Control It?
This article allows students to recognize that the process of evolution by natural selection continues to change our world and ourselves, both despite and because of our best efforts to control it.
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Open Curriculum: Excretory System
This article helps students define homeostasis and excretion, and why they are necessary for life.
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Open Curriculum: Genetic Mutation
Students define and describe mutation including the common causes of mutation.
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Open Curriculum: Human Chromosomes and Genes
This article discusses the importance of characterizing the human genome.
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Open Curriculum: Human Inheritance
This illustrated article describes the difference between a genetic trait and a genetic disease/disorder.
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Open Curriculum: Immune System Diseases
This article helps students explain how allergies occur and provides a list of common allergens.
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Open Curriculum: Immune System: Nonspecific Defenses
Students will be able to describe mechanical, chemical, and biological barriers that keep most pathogens out of the human body.
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Open Curriculum: Into the Chloroplast: How Photosynthesis Works
This article allows students to understand the process of photosynthesis and how chloroplasts, thylakoids, and pigments are involved.
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Open Curriculum: Into the Mitochondrion: Making Atp With Oxygen
The aim of this article is to relate the history of oxygen in the atmosphere to the evolution of photosynthesis, aerobic respiration, mitochondria, and life on earth.
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Open Curriculum: Introduction to Cells
This article helps students identify the scientists that first observed cells.
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Open Curriculum: Matter
Students will be able to describe elements and compounds, and explain how mixtures differ from compounds.
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Open Curriculum: Meiosis
Students learn about asexual reproduction and explain the genetic relationship between parent and offspring.
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Open Curriculum: Mendelian Inheritance
Students use this article to identify how probability is used to predict outcomes of genetic crosses.
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Open Curriculum: Mendel's Investigation
Students identify how Mendel's study of science and math was important to his success in research.
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Open Curriculum: Multicellular Life
To describe the diversity of unicellular organisms which arose over 2 billion years of evolution.
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Open Curriculum: Organic Compounds
A tutorial which explains why carbon is essential to life on Earth.
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Open Curriculum: Powering the Cell: Cellular Respiration and Glycolysis
Students will be able top clarify the relationship between breathing and cellular respiration.
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Open Curriculum: Protein Synthesis
Discuss the meaning of DNA and Protein synthesis.
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Open Curriculum: Recycling Matter in Ecosystems
Students learn about biogeochemical cycles that recycle matter on Earth.
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Open Curriculum: Regulation of Gene Expression
An article which describes the general mechanisms of gene expression.
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Open Curriculum: Respiratory System
This illustrated article helps students understand how the respiratory system works.
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Open Curriculum: Science of Ecology
This illustrated article helps students identify levels of organization in ecology.
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Open Curriculum: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
An overview of how sexually transmitted diseases are transmitted and how they can be prevented.