Level One

1. Identify major cell organelles, given a diagram

2. Distinguish between plant and animal cells given a diagram or scenarios.

3. Predict the movement of water molecules across a cell membrane, given solutions of different concentrations.

4. Sequence a series of diagrams depicting the movement of chromosomes during meiosis.

5. Compare and contrast the cell cycle in plant and animal cells, with a diagram.

Level Two

6. Distinguish proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nuclei acids, given structural diagrams.

7. Identify a positive test for carbohydrates and lipids when given an experimental procedure, data, and results.

8. Distinguish between active and passive transport, given examples of different molecules.

9. Evaluate the role of meiosis in maintaining genetic variability and continuity, given a scenario.

10. Determine the number of chromosomes following mitosis or meiosis, given the number of chromosomes in the original cell.

11. Recognize the significance of homeostasis to the viability of humans and other organisms, given the definition of homeostasis.

Level Three

12. Identify the biomolecules responsible for communication, responding,

regulating, or reproducing in the cell.

Level One

1. Identify commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism, given a scenario.

2. Classify organisms as producers, consumers, or decomposers given their behaviors and environment.

Level Two

3. Identify abiotic and biotic factors, given a description or an illustration of an ecosystem.

4. Make inferences about how environmental factors would affect population growth.

5. Examine the energy flow and loss through the trophic levels of an ecosystem, given an illustration of an energy pyramid.

6. Determine the effects of human activities on ecosystems, given a scenario.

7. Analyze and interpret population growth curves, given a graph.

Level Three

8. Distinguish between a learned or an innate behavior given a description of

that behavior in a scenario.

Level One

1. Identify the reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration, given the equations.

2. Identify the cell organelle in which photosynthesis occurs, given a diagram of a plant cell.

3. Interpret a diagram of the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle, given a diagram.

Level Two

4. Distinguish between aerobic and anaerobic respiration in terms of the presence of absence of oxygen and ATP produced.

5. Relate the interdependence of the process of photosynthesis and respiration to living organisms, given a diagram or a description.

Level Three

6. Recognize the transfer of energy from respiration to cellular work, given an equation or diagram of the ATP cycle.

Level One

1. Distinguish between asexual and sexual methods of reproduction,using a scenario.

2. Identify the dominant trait, given the results of a monohybrid cross.

3. Determine the genotype and phenotype of a monohybrid cross, given a Punnett Square.

4. Relate changes in the DNA instructions to cause mutations, given diagrams.

Level Two

5. Recognize the two major functions of DNA as replication and protein synthesis, given diagrams showing a strand of bases with a complimentary strand.

6. Identify the sex chromosomes in humans and recognize inheritance patterns that are sex-linked, using a pedigree.

7. Analyze modes of inheritance including co-dominance, incomplete dominance, polygenic, and multiple alleles using genetic problems or Punnett Squares.

8. Analyze a series of DNA bases to determine the sequence with a mutation.

9. Describe and analyze DNA fingerprinting using an illustration of DNA bands.

10. Determine the probability of having a child with cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, of Tay-Sachs if both parents are carriers, given a scenario.

Level Three

11. Differentiate the process of transcription and translation given diagrams.

12. Analyze a dihybrid cross given a completed Punnett square to determine the probability of a particular trait.

Level One

1. Infer animals of plants indigenous to an environment, given pictures of diagrams of the organisms and a description of the environment.

2. Infer the biome in which an animal or plant lives, given a description of the organism and pictures of various biomes.

3. Infer the relatedness of different organisms using the Linnean system of classification, given pictures of a variety of different plants or animals and a key classification of organisms.

Level Two

4. Determine the genus and species of an organism, given a dichotomous key containing descriptions of the characteristics of each classification level.

5. Determine whether an insect undergoes complete or incomplete metamorphosis, given pictures of diagrams of the insect in its stages of development.

6. Infer the body symmetry of an organism.

7. Predict the function of a system or organ given structural descriptions, whether earthworm, crayfish, frog, or human.

Level Three

8. Predict the function of an organ, given a description of its component tissues.

9. Compare and contrast life cycles of various organisms to include alternation of generations, given pictorial representations.

Level One

1. Differentiate between the relative age of various fossils in sedimentary rock, given a diagram of rock strata.

2. Predict how environmental changes will encourage or discourage the formation of a new species or extinction of an existing species, given a written scenario.

Level Two

3. Transfer knowledge of divergent evolution, as in Darwin's finches, to determine why species with a common ancestor have adapted differently, given a diagram of the various species.

4. Compare homologous structures in species to determine the relatedness of certain species, given diagrams or pictures of each.

5. Differentiate between natural selection and selective breeding, given a scenario.

Level Three

6. Recognize the relatedness of species using DNA strands.