Senior Secondary 3 | Biology

First Term

Objective: Define genetic terminology

Action steps

1. Define the genetic term gene

2. Define the genetic term genotype

3. Define the genetic term phenotype

4. Define the genetic term dominant

5. Define the genetic term recessive

6. Define the genetic term allele

7. Define the genetic term locus

8. Define the genetic term back cross

Objective: Describe the transmission and expression of characteristics in organisms

Action steps

1. Define and explain hereditary variation

2. Describe some of Mendel’s experiments

3. Explain what is meant by Mendelian traits

4. List the Mendelian laws

Objective: Describe the structure of chromosomes

Action steps

1. Document the structure of chromosomes

2. Describe the process of transmission of hereditary characteristics from parents to offspring

Objective: Understand the linkage between sex determination and sex-linked characteristics

Action steps

1. Explain the terms linkage, sex determination, and sex-linked characteristics such as haemophilia, color blindness, baldness and hairy ear lobes

2. Give examples of new varieties of crops and livestock obtained through cross-breeding

3. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of cross-fertilization

4. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of outbreeding and inbreeding

Objective: Apply the principles of heredity to selected fields of study

Action steps

1. Apply the principles of heredity to agriculture

2. Apply the principles of heredity to medicine

3. Apply knowledge of heredity in marriage counseling with particular reference to sickle cell anemia and rhesus factor

Objective: Investigate behavioral adaptations in social animals

Action steps

1. Investigate the life structures of termites

2. Describe and explain the division of labor in social insects (bees, etc.)

3. Explain the communication among animals such as contact notes and warning cries

Objective: Investigate the process of evolution

Action steps

1. Construct an explanation based of the process of evolution base on evidence

2. Describe theories of mutation in evolution

Second Term

Objective: Investigate the biological concept of living

Action steps

1. Conduct an investigation on cell theory

2. Investigate irritability as a basic characteristic of protoplasm

3. Explain excretory systems

4. Discuss the diseases, effects, and remedies of the kidney and liver organs

5. Explain the sense organs – nose, tongue and the skin

6. Discuss the reproduction and courtship behavior in animals

Objective: Investigate plant and animal nutrition

Action steps

1. Understand the nitrogen cycle.

2. Explain the modes of nutrition: autotrophic, chemosynthetic, and carnivorous plants

3. Define and explain the alimentary system

4. Discuss feeding habits in plants and animals

Objective: Investigate basic ecological concepts

Action steps

1. Explain ecological concepts such as the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and niche

2. Conduct an investigation on population studies using data sampling techniques

3. Investigate energy transformation in nature

4. Determine how nutrient cycling occurs in nature

5. Explain various concepts in ecological management including tolerance, and minimum and maximum range

6. Discuss the relevance of biology to agriculture

7. Investigate microorganisms such as the human and the health of humans

Objective: Investigate the process of evolution

Action steps

1. Explain adaptation for survival and factors that bring about competition

2. Discuss structural adaptation for obtaining food, protection and defense

3. Describe adaptive coloration for both plants and animals

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