1. Taxonomical categories from most broad to most specific

2. Characteristics of living things

3. Definition of hypothesis and why a hypothesis is needed in scientific method

4. Types of variables in a controlled experiment and why controlled experiments are necessary

5. Roles of water in living organisms and characteristics of water that support life in plants and animals

6. Enzyme function

7. Organelles found in cells and their function

8. Structure of the cell membrane

9. Know the equations for both photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

10. Be able to recognize the stages of mitosis.

11. The objective of mitosis and meiosis.

12. Understand Central Dogma and the processes used by the cell to create protein (phenotype) from DNA (genotype).

13. Definition of transcription.

14. Definition of translation.

15. Know Mendelâ€^TMs First Law (the law of segregation) and Second Law (the law of independent assortment).

16. Define speciation and know the conditions that must be met for speciation to occur

17. Know the two states of a virus and be able to identify the parts of a virus

18. General structure of prokaryotic cells

19. Steps in binary fission and resulting exponential growth of bacterial cells

20. General characteristics of the four Kingdoms discussed this semester (protists, plants, fungi, animals)

21. Be able to identify negative and positive feedback systems

22. Define homeostasis

23. What are the four different tissue types in vertebrates

24. Biotic and abiotic factors that limit where an organism can live

25. Be able to identify the trophic levels of a population

26. Calculate r (intrinsic rate of increase) in a population

27. Identify the phases of the logistic growth curve

28. Identify a K-select species vs. r-select species

29. Types of symbiosis