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Biology: Core Concepts
Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
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- Basic Chemistry (atoms, molecules, chemical bonding)
- Topic 1.1: The Structure of Water and Hydrogen Bonding
- Carbon and Functional Groups (more useful background)
- Topic 1.3: Introduction to Biological Molecules (Monomers and Polymers, Overview of Biomolecules)
- Topics 1.4 -1.6: Biological Macromolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids)
Unit 2: Cells and Cell Membranes
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- Topics 2.1 – 2.3, 2.10: Cell Structure and Function (includes cell size and the endomembrane system).
- Topic 2.11: Origins of compartmentalization
- Topics 2.4-2.9: Cell Membrane Structure and Function/Osmosis
Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
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- Topics 3.1 to 3.3: Enzymes and Enzyme Regulation
- Topic 3.4: Cellular Energy (a reading about free energy and entropy)
- Topic 3.6: Cellular Respiration
- Topic 3.5: Photosynthesis
Unit 4: Cell Communication and the Cell Cycle
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- Topics 4.1 – 4.4: Cell Communication/Signal Transduction
- Topic 4.5: Feedback: (Thermoregulation, Blood Glucose, Osmoregulation)
- Topics 4.6 and 4.7: Mitosis, the Cell Cycle, and Cell Cycle Regulation
Unit 5: Heredity
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- Topics 5.1, 5.2, 5.10: Meiosis, Sex Determination, Nondisjunction and Chromosomal Variations
- Topics 5.3, 5.4, 5.6: Mendelian and Post Mendelian Genetics (includes Blood type and Sex linkage), Dihybrid crosses, Linkage and Recombination, χ2 (Chi squared) Test)
Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
Unit 7: Natural Selection/Evolution
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- Topic 7.1 – 7.5: Adaptation, Artificial and Natural Selection; Population Genetics and Hardy Weinberg
- Topics 7.6 – 7.8: Evidence for Evolution, Common Ancestry and Continuing Evolution
- Topic 7.9: Phylogeny
- Topic 7.10 – 7.12: Species, Speciation, and Extinction
- Topic 7:13: Origin and Early History of Life, The RNA World