The life sciences focus on patterns, processes, and relationships of living organisms. Life is self-contained, self-sustaining, self-replicating, and evolving, operating according to laws of the physical world, as well as genetic programming. Life scientists use observations, experiments, hypotheses, tests, models, theory, and technology to explore how life works. The study of life ranges over scales from single molecules, through organisms and ecosystems, to the entire biosphere, that is all life on Earth. It examines processes that occur on time scales from the blink of an eye to those that happen over billions of years. Living systems are interconnected and interacting. Although living organisms respond to the physical environment or geosphere, they have also fundamentally changed Earth over time. Rapid advances in life sciences are helping to provide biological solutions to societal problems related to food, energy, health, and the environment.
TOpics of Exploration:
1. How do organisms grow and develop?
2. How does the environment influence populations of organisms over multiple generations?
3. How does genetic variation among organisms affect survival and reproduction?
4. What evidence shows that different species are related?
5. How are the characteristics of one generation related to the previous generation?
6. Why do individuals of the same species vary in how they look, function, and behave?
2. How does the environment influence populations of organisms over multiple generations?
3. How does genetic variation among organisms affect survival and reproduction?
4. What evidence shows that different species are related?
5. How are the characteristics of one generation related to the previous generation?
6. Why do individuals of the same species vary in how they look, function, and behave?
National Research Council 2012. A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/13165
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