·   Identify life functions
·   Place living things in an organized manner
·   Explain the specific functions of cell organelles
·   Analyze organic compounds
·   Structural formula of organic compounds
·   Hydrolysis/synthesis

·   Process of photosynthesis
·   Process of heterotrophic nutrition
·   Adaptations for nutrition in organisms
·   Explain the flow of nutrients through organisms
·   Process of respiration
·   Flow of gases
·   Removal of metabolic waste
·   Regulation - nerve control/endocrine system
·   Locomotion - advantages/adaptations

·   Trace food through the gastrointestinal tract
·   Explain what happens at each organ of the GI series

·   Circulatory system - maintains homeostasis,

·   The process of gas exchange
·   Excretory organs and their function, disorders
·   Nervous system - parts of, function disorders
·   Role of hormones

·   Comparison of mitotic division in plants and animals
·   Explain asexual reproduction
·   Stages of meiosis
·   Compare and contrast meiosis and mitosis
·   Interpret the germ layers
·   Compare and contrast external and internal

·   Male and female reproductive system
·   Menstrual cycle
·   Reproduction in flowing plants
·   Production of a seed

·   Major concepts - dominance/recessive,

·   Genetic diagrams - cross between traits
·   Principles of heredity
·   Gene linkage and crossing-over
·   Sex determination
·   Mutations
·   Structure of DNA - Double Helix  

·   Evidence for evolution
- theory - Lamark/Darwin
- comparative studies
·   Natural selection
·   Geographic isolation
·   Heterotrophic hypothesis  

·   Ecosystems - factors (biotic, abiotic)
·   Nutritional relationships
·   Energy flow
·   Material cycles
·   Pyramid of biomass
·   Ecological succession of organisms
·   Biomes of the earth
·   Humans and the biosphere