WY.SCI.HS.LS1.2
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grades 9-12
Learning Domain: From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes
Standard: Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multi-cellular organisms.
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WY.SCI.HS.LS1.3
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grades 9-12
Learning Domain: From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes
Standard: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.
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WY.SCI.MS.LS1.2
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes
Standard: Develop and use models to describe the parts, functions, and basic processes of cells.
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Learning Domain: Common Themes
Standard: A mathematical model uses rules and relationships to describe and predict objects and events in the real world.
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Learning Domain: Common Themes
Standard: If a system in equilibrium is disturbed, it may return to a very similar state of equilibrium, or it may undergo a radical change until the system achieves a new state of equilibrium with very different conditions, or it may fail to achieve any type of equilibrium.
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Learning Domain: Common Themes
Standard: Even though a system may appear to be unchanging when viewed macroscopically, there is continual activity of the molecules in the system.
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Learning Domain: The Living Environment
Standard: Every cell is covered by a membrane that controls what can enter and leave the cell.
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Learning Domain: The Living Environment
Standard: Within the cells are specialized parts for the transport of materials, energy capture and release, protein building, waste disposal, passing information, and even movement.
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Learning Domain: The Living Environment
Standard: The work of the cell is carried out by the many different types of molecules it assembles, mostly proteins. Protein molecules are long, usually folded chains made from 20 different kinds of amino acid molecules. The function of each protein molecule depends on its specific sequence of amino acids and its shape. The shape of the chain is a consequence of attractions between its parts.
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Learning Domain: The Living Environment
Standard: Some protein molecules assist in replicating genetic information, repairing cell structures, helping other molecules get in or out of the cell, and generally catalyzing and regulating molecular interactions.
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Structure, Function, and Information Processing
Standard: Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the cell functioning as a whole system and the primary role of identified parts of the cell, specifically the nucleus, chloroplasts, mitochondria, cell membrane, and cell wall.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment of organelle structure/function relationships is limited to the cell wall and cell membrane. Assessment of the function of the other organelles is limited to their relationship to the whole cell. Assessment does not include the biochemical function of cells or cell parts.]
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Structure and Function
Standard: Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on functions at the organism system level such as nutrient uptake, water delivery, and organism movement in response to neural stimuli. An example of an interacting system could be an artery depending on the proper function of elastic tissue and smooth muscle to regulate and deliver the proper amount of blood within the circulatory system.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include interactions and functions at the molecular or chemical reaction level.]
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Structure and Function
Standard: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis. [Clarification Statement: Examples of investigations could include heart rate response to exercise, stomate response to moisture and temperature, and root development in response to water levels.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include the cellular processes involved in the feedback mechanism.]
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