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Open Curriculum: Excretory System
This article helps students define homeostasis and excretion, and why they are necessary for life.
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Open Curriculum: Genetic Mutation
Students define and describe mutation including the common causes of mutation.
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Open Curriculum: Homeostasis and Regulation in the Human Body
This article helps students identify the process by which body systems are regulated so that they remain stable.
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Open Curriculum: Human Chromosomes and Genes
This article discusses the importance of characterizing the human genome.
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Open Curriculum: Human Inheritance
This illustrated article describes the difference between a genetic trait and a genetic disease/disorder.
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Open Curriculum: Immune Response
This article will help students learn how to describe the lymphatic system and its functions in the immune response, explain the role of antigens, describe a humoral immune response, identify roles of different types of T cells, define...
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Open Curriculum: Immune System Diseases
This article helps students explain how allergies occur and provides a list of common allergens.
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Open Curriculum: Immune System: Nonspecific Defenses
Students will be able to describe mechanical, chemical, and biological barriers that keep most pathogens out of the human body.
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Open Curriculum: Into the Chloroplast: How Photosynthesis Works
This article allows students to understand the process of photosynthesis and how chloroplasts, thylakoids, and pigments are involved.
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Open Curriculum: Introduction to Cells
This article helps students identify the scientists that first observed cells.
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Open Curriculum: Matter
Students will be able to describe elements and compounds, and explain how mixtures differ from compounds.
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Open Curriculum: Meiosis
Students learn about asexual reproduction and explain the genetic relationship between parent and offspring.
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Open Curriculum: Mendelian Inheritance
Students use this article to identify how probability is used to predict outcomes of genetic crosses.
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Open Curriculum: Mendel's Investigation
Students identify how Mendel's study of science and math was important to his success in research.
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Open Curriculum: Multicellular Life
To describe the diversity of unicellular organisms which arose over 2 billion years of evolution.
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Open Curriculum: Organic Compounds
A tutorial which explains why carbon is essential to life on Earth.
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Open Curriculum: Powering the Cell: Cellular Respiration and Glycolysis
Students will be able top clarify the relationship between breathing and cellular respiration.
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Open Curriculum: Protein Synthesis
Discuss the meaning of DNA and Protein synthesis.
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Open Curriculum: Recycling Matter in Ecosystems
Students learn about biogeochemical cycles that recycle matter on Earth.
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Open Curriculum: Regulation of Gene Expression
An article which describes the general mechanisms of gene expression.
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Open Curriculum: Respiratory System
This illustrated article helps students understand how the respiratory system works.
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Open Curriculum: Science of Ecology
This illustrated article helps students identify levels of organization in ecology.
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Open Curriculum: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
An overview of how sexually transmitted diseases are transmitted and how they can be prevented.
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Open Curriculum: Terrestrial Biomes
Students learn how terrestrial biomes are classified and distributed around the globe.