1. Review PowerPoint
For each topic, there is a key image to understand, and the essential idea and question to be able to answer.
Key terms in each of the titles are underlined and colored.

2. Topic 1 – Cell Biology

3. Topic Essential idea: The evolution of multicellular organisms allowed cell specialization and cell replacement.
Essential Question – What makes liver cells different from heart cells?
How does the body replace specialized cells?
Topic Essential idea: Eukaryotes have a much more complex cell structure than prokaryotes.
Essential Question – Distinguish between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
Topic Essential idea: The structure of biological membranes makes them fluid and dynamic
Essential Question – Draw and label the plasma membrane.
Describe the characteristics of the membrane that contribute to it being fluid and dynamic.

4. Topic Essential idea: Membranes control the composition of cells by active and passive transport
Essential Question – Explain how membrane proteins contribute to controlling the concentration of solutes.
Topic Essential idea: There is an unbroken chain of life from the first cells on Earth to all cells in organisms alive today
Essential Question – Describe the contributions of Louis Pasteur and Miller/Urey to the understanding of the development of life.
Topic Essential idea: Cell division is essential but must be controlled.
Essential Question – Outline the actions of the cell during each phase.
Describe the contributions of cyclins and other proteins to the control of the cell cycle.

5. Topic 2 – Molecular Biology

6. Topic Essential idea: Living organisms control their composition by a complex web of chemical reactions.
Essential Questions – Distinguish between Anabolism and Catabolism.
Describe the process of creation of a polymer through condensation.
Topic Essential idea: Water is the medium of life.
Essential Questions – Define polarity.
Describe how polarity gives water its cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties.
Topic Essential idea: Compounds of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are used to supply and store energy.
Essential Questions – State one example of a monomer, dimer, and polymer of each of the following:
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins
Distinguish unsat- and saturated fatty acids

7. Topic 2.4 - Essential idea: Proteins have a very wide range of functions in living organisms.
Essential Question – Outline the structure of proteins.
Give one example of how structure and function are related in proteins.
Topic Essential idea: Enzymes control the metabolism of the cell.
Essential Question – Explain how enzymes can remain unchanged while catalyzing a reaction.
Describe the factors that affect enzyme activity.
Topic Essential idea: The structure of DNA allows efficient storage of genetic information.
Essential Question – Draw and label a sequence of two base pairs of DNA.
Explain the structures within DNA and RNA that carry information.

8. Topic Essential idea: Genetic information in DNA can be accurately copied and can be translated to make the proteins needed by the cell.
Essential Questions – Describe how complementary base pairing allows DNA to be replicated accurately.
Essential Questions – Describe the relevance of complementary base pairing to transcription.
Outline transcription.
Describe the factors that control when transcription takes place.
Essential Questions – Describe the relevance of complementary base pairing to translation.
Outline translation.
Explain the relationship between codon, anticodon, and amino acid.