Biology, Grade 11, University Preparation
Ontario · Grade 11 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Investigation Skills and Careers
Careers related to the fields of science under study and the education and training they require, and scientists — including Canadians — who have contributed to those fields. The scientific investigation skills of strand A1 are woven through every lab and inquiry in the content strands rather than taught here on their own.
- Careers in the biological sciences
- Scientists who contributed to biology
Unit 2: Diversity of Living Things
The diversity of life — taxonomy and phylogeny, the kingdoms, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and viruses, and why biodiversity matters — investigated through classification, sampling, and dichotomous keys, plus analysing how human activity and climate change affect biodiversity.
- Risks and benefits of human intervention
- Climate change and biodiversity
- Biodiversity terminology
- Classifying representative organisms
- Sampling and classifying organisms
- Using a dichotomous key
- Taxonomy and phylogeny
- Prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and viruses
- Characteristics of the kingdoms
- Evolutionary changes in organisms
- Why biodiversity matters
Unit 3: Evolution
The theory of evolution — natural selection, adaptation, speciation, and evolutionary mechanisms — and the scientists who developed it, investigated through case studies and simulations, plus analysing artificial selection technologies and evaluating the impact of environmental change on natural selection.
- Artificial selection technologies
- Environmental change and natural selection
- Evolution terminology
- Factors affecting evolution
- Scientists' contributions to evolution
- Investigating natural and artificial selection
- The theory of evolution
- Adaptation of organisms
- Speciation
- Evolutionary mechanisms
Unit 4: Genetic Processes
The processes of inheritance — meiosis, DNA, genes, and Mendelian genetics — investigated with the microscope and the Punnett square, plus genetic disorders and reproductive technologies, and analysing the social and ethical implications of genetics research.
- Ethics of genetics research
- Recent contributions in genetics
- Genetics terminology
- Investigating meiosis
- Solving Punnett square problems
- Analysing crosses with probability
- Phases of meiosis
- DNA, genes, and Mendelian inheritance
- Genotype, phenotype, and inheritance patterns
- Genetic disorders
- Reproductive technologies
Unit 5: Animals: Structure and Function
The anatomy and physiology of animal systems — the respiratory, digestive, and circulatory systems and their disorders — investigated through dissection and medical equipment, plus evaluating imaging technologies and assessing how societal needs drive developments related to internal systems.
- Technologies for internal body systems
- Societal needs and scientific developments
- Animal anatomy terminology
- Dissecting animal systems
- Monitoring system responses
- The respiratory system
- The digestive system
- The circulatory system
- Disorders of animal systems
Unit 6: Plants: Anatomy, Growth, and Function
The anatomy, growth, and function of vascular plants — specialized tissues, transport mechanisms, reproduction, monocots and dicots, and ecological succession — investigated through inquiry, microscopy, and propagation, plus evaluating the importance of plants to society and sustainable use.
- Importance of plants to society
- Sustainable use of plants
- Plant terminology
- Factors affecting plant growth
- Specialized plant tissues
- Plant propagation techniques
- Plant tissues and transport
- Monocots and dicots
- Plant reproduction
- Factors affecting plant growth (concepts)
- Ecological succession
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