Form 1 Biology — Term 1
By charlesphiri2020
Categories: Form 1 Biology
About Course
Build a strong foundation in Biology by exploring scientific inquiry, characteristics of living things, cellular life, microscopy, cell structure, and specialized cells in plants and animals.
What Will You Learn?
- 🔬 Understand how scientific inquiry is used to investigate biological questions.
- 🧬 Identify the characteristics and levels of organization of living things.
- 🔍 Use a microscope and calculate the magnification of biological specimens.
- 🧫 Describe the structure and functions of plant and animal cells.
- 🌱 Explain how specialized cells are adapted to perform specific functions.
Course Content
Section 1: Concepts and Methods in Biology
Topic 1: Nature of Science Inquiry in Biology
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Lesson 1 – What is scientific inquiry?
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Lesson 2 – Scientific inquiry in Biology
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Lesson 3 – Stages of scientific inquiry
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Lesson 4 – Applying scientific inquiry to biological investigations
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Lesson 5 – Sharing findings from investigations
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Lesson 6 – Using biological findings to solve real-life problems
Topic 2: Nature of Biology
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Lesson 1 – Meaning and nature of Biology
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Lesson 2 – Importance of Biology
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Lesson 3 – Branches of Biology
Topic 3: Levels of Biological Organization
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Lesson 1 – Biological organization
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Lesson 2 – Levels of organization
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Lesson 3 – Classifying levels of biological organization
Topic 4: Characteristics of Living Things
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Lesson 1 – Characteristics of living things
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Lesson 2 – Living and non-living things
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Lesson 3 – The concept of life
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Lesson 4 – Life processes
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Lesson 5 – Catabolism and anabolism
Section 2: Principles of Cellular Life
Topic 5: Microscopes
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Lesson 1 – Introduction to microscopes
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Lesson 2 – Simple and compound microscopes
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Lesson 3 – Parts of a compound microscope and their functions
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Lesson 4 – Using a microscope
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Lesson 5 – Microscope safety and care
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Lesson 6 – Calculating magnification
Topic 6: Basic Cell Structure
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Lesson 1 – Introduction to cells
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Lesson 2 – Basic structure of cells
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Lesson 3 – Cell membrane
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Lesson 4 – Cytoplasm
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Lesson 5 – Nucleus
Topic 7: Types of Cells
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Lesson 1 – Prokaryotic cells
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Lesson 2 – Eukaryotic cells
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Lesson 3 – Plant cells
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Lesson 4 – Animal cells
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Lesson 5 – Functions of cell organelles
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Lesson 6 – Comparing plant and animal cells
Topic 8: Cell Specialization in Animals
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Lesson 1 – Meaning of cell specialization
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Lesson 2 – Nerve cells
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Lesson 3 – Blood cells
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Lesson 4 – Ciliated cells
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Lesson 5 – Muscle cells
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Lesson 6 – Sperm cells
Topic 9: Cell Specialization in Plants
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Lesson 1 – Root hair cells
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Lesson 2 – Palisade cells
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Lesson 3 – Guard cells
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Lesson 4 – Phloem cells
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Lesson 5 – Xylem cells
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