AHC Biology 100
The AHC Biology 100 course fulfills the general education requirement for life science and is available to 10th, 11th, and 12th-grade students who meet the prerequisite requirements.
Biology 100 is a year-long science laboratory course designed to guide students through the scientific exploration of our living world. This course will use the scientific process to build a conceptual framework of modern biology. Inquiry-based investigations will advance students understanding of how cell structure and function contribute to the organization of life. In addition, developing and using models will facilitate a deeper understanding of the storage and transfer of genetic information, ensuring the continuation and diversity of life. Case studies will provide evidence supporting natural selection as the mechanism of evolution, further clarifying how life emerged and survived on our changing planet. This course will also explore how living systems interact, creating communities and ecosystems governed by the transfer of energy and matter through our biosphere, culminating with the study of the importance of biodiversity as a vital mechanism that provides resilience to living systems in a changing world.
Biology 100 is a concentrator course for the Righetti's CTE Environmental Resources Pathway. With a passing grade in both terms of this course, a student will meet the life science graduation requirement and the UC laboratory science requirement.
PREREQUISITE:
Successful completion (C average) of NGSS Pathway
Required for Accelerated NGSS Sequence - Successful completion of Physics of the Universe A/B, and Biology: The Living Earth A/B and concurrently enrolled in Chemistry in the Earth System A
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