• Briefly describe what the article is about. Identify the Big Idea to which the article relates and describe how or why it connects to that Big Idea in particular.
Summaries are due the first week we return from break*
**These articles and summaries will count as your second quiz grade in AP Biology. **
The rubric with which you will be graded is attached.
Mrs Ullrich & Mrs Ortlieb are available to help with any of your questions!
Mrs Ullrich: jullrich@bufsd.org
Mrs. Ortlieb: lortlieb@bufsd.org
Big Idea #1 – The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.
Enduring understanding 1.A: Change in the genetic makeup of a population over time is evolution.
Enduring understanding 1.B: Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry.
Enduring understanding 1.C: Life continues to evolve within a changing environment.
Enduring understanding 1.D: The origin of living systems is explained by natural processes.
✓ Evolution, change over time, evidence for adaptation & evolution
Big Idea #2 – Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to
grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis.
Enduring understanding 2.A: Growth, reproduction and maintenance of the organization of living systems require free energy and matter.
Enduring understanding 2.B: Growth, reproduction and dynamic homeostasis require that cells create and maintain internal environments that are different from their external environments.
Enduring understanding 2.C: Organisms use feedback mechanisms to regulate growth and reproduction, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis.
Enduring understanding 2.D: Growth and dynamic homeostasis of a biological system are influenced by changes in the system’s environment.
Enduring understanding 2.E: Many biological processes involved in growth, reproduction and dynamic homeostasis include temporal regulation and coordination.
✓ Regulation, Feedback, Body Systems, Respiration, Chemistry of Life
Big Idea #3 – Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information
essential to life processes.
Enduring understanding 3.A: Heritable information provides for continuity of life.
Enduring understanding 3.B: Expression of genetic information involves cellular and molecular mechanisms.
Enduring understanding 3.C: The processing of genetic information is imperfect and is a source of genetic variation.
Enduring understanding 3.D:Cells communicate by generating, transmitting and receiving chemical signals.
Enduring understanding 3.E: Transmission of information results in changes within and between biological systems.
✓ Genetics, Heredity, Reproduction, Environmental Effect on Gene Expression: Cancer, Genetic Disorders
Big Idea #4 – Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions
possess complex properties
Enduring understanding 4.A: Interactions within biological systems lead to complex properties.
Enduring understanding 4.B: Competition and cooperation are important aspects of biological systems.
Enduring understanding 4.C: Naturally occurring diversity among and between components within biological systems affects interactions with the environment.
✓ Ecology, Interconnectedness of life, Energy Transfer-Photosynthesis & Respiration
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