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AP Biology Chapter Outlines & Objectives
Campbell’s Biology,
7th Edition Created by: C. Massengale, Stuttgart School District Chapter Outline:
Chapter Objectives:
The Basis of Heredity
1. Explain in general terms how traits are
transmitted from parents to offspring.
2. Distinguish between asexual and sexual
reproduction.
The Role of Meiosis in Sexual Life Cycles
3. Distinguish between the following pairs of
terms:
a. somatic cell and gamete
b. autosome and sex chromosome
4. Explain how haploid and diploid cells differ
from each other. State which cells in the human body are diploid and which are
haploid.
5. Explain why fertilization and meiosis must
alternate in all sexual life cycles.
6. Distinguish among the three life-cycle
patterns characteristic of eukaryotes, and name one organism that displays each
pattern.
7. List the phases of meiosis I and meiosis II
and describe the events characteristic of each phase.
8. Recognize the phases of meiosis from diagrams
or micrographs.
9. Describe the process of synapsis during
prophase I and explain how genetic recombination occurs.
10. Describe three events that occur during meiosis I but
not during mitosis.
Origins of Genetic Variation
11. Explain how independent assortment, crossing over, and
random fertilization contribute to genetic variation in sexually reproducing
organisms.
12. Explain why
heritable variation is crucial to Darwin
’s theory of evolution by natural selection
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