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February 2010 Pilot > Fields > Biology

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  • Habits of Mind

This pilot will ascertain whether students have developed critical conceptions and habits of mind in the context of specific biological systems of well-defined scope and structure. Particular attention is devoted to changes in the state of these systems that impact human health and natural equilibrium.

Reproduction and Genetics:

  • Sexual Reproduction: Meiosis, spermatogenesis, oogenesis, and fertilization.
  • Transmission of genes: identity markers (MHC genes), mutations.
  • Human Genetics: Autosomal linked diseases and sex linked diseases, Prenatal diagnosis.

The cell as a functional unit: The functional characteristics of cells

  • The Structure and behavior of DNA: Mitosis, Chromosomes.
  • Protein synthesis: Enzymes and their mode of action.

The Function of different Biological Systems

  • Nervous System: Reflex action.
  • Endocrine System: glands, hormones.
  • Nutrition and Digestive system: Food Diet, Enzymes.
  • Circulatory system: Blood.
  • Respiratory System: Modes of Repiration and the Processes of respiratory Gas exchange.
  • Muscular System: "Muscular Tonicity".
  • Immune System: antigens, HIV, Tissue and Organ Graft.
  • Sense organs: The eye and vision.

Plants

  • Photosynthesis process and the structure and function of chloroplast .
  • Germination of seeds.
  • Fructification.

Analysis:

  1. In the process of protein synthesis, describe the codon. (Descriptive)
  2. To what can we attribute the variation of Oxygen gas in the culture medium? (Causal)
  3. What is the consequence of the substitution of the nitrogenous base T by G on the synthesis of this protein? (Inferential)
  4. Explain the difference between the two rates of catalyzed reactions. (Discriminatory)
  5. Based on your knowledge, explain the results of the experiments in each of the tubes A, B, and C. (Inferential)

Criterial thinking :

  1. What characteristics of enzymes are evident in this document? (Classification)
  2. Calculate the proportion of heterozygote offsprings in this community. (Measurment)
  3. Compare the chemical composition of lactose to that of thiolactose? (Comparison)
  4. How many ribosomes make up the polysome present in the document? (Measurment)
  5. Choose the schema representing the correct chronological order of the four phases of mitosis.(Comparison, Classification)

Relational thinking :

  1. What can we deduce about the role and mode of action of acetylcholine? (Synthesis)
  2. Indicate two advantages of the method of producing peptide vaccines. (Extrapolation)
  3. Explain how the term anti-cancer is attributed to the different varieties of transgenic tomato? (Transfer)
  4. Deduce the mode of action of the neurotransmitter on the postsynaptic neuron.(Deduction)
  5. How is calcium deficiency related to vitamin D deficiency? (Correlation)

Logical thinking :

  1. Justify how are moprphine and enkephaline considered as agonistic substances. (Justification)
  2. By referring to the information in the document, justify how the nerve message is coded by modulation of frequency. (Justification)
  3. Based on the text and on your acquired knowledge, justify that this medicine acts as a drug (Justification)
  4. Indicate the purpose of producing maize plants which are resistant to the larva of insects. (Axiology)
  5. How can gene therapy be utilized in the development of sciences (medicine, food, pharmaceutical…? (Axiology)

 Communication :

  1. In reference to drug addiction, what does "tolerance" mean? (Semantics)
  2. Which of the two graphs indicate the control group? (Graphical representation)
  3. Indicate the chemical nature of the food product based on the formula. (Interpretation)
  4. Draw the sex chromosome that carries the allele for the disease. (Iconic representation)
  5. Complete the functional diagram of medullary reflex. (Representation)
 
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