UP:SC15.7.11
Vocabulary
- Analyze
- Interpret
- Data
- Predict
- Environmental
- Conditions (e.g., weather, resource availability, etc.)
- Genetics
- Genetic Factors (e.g., selective breeding, etc.)
- Organisms
Knowledge
Students know:
- Environmental factors can influence growth.
- Genetic factors can influence growth.
- Changes in the growth of organisms can occur as specific environmental and genetic factors change.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Organize given data on how both environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms to allow for analysis and interpretation.
- Analyze the data to identify possible causal relationships between environmental and genetic factors and the growth of organisms.
- Interpret patterns observed from the data to provide causal accounts for events and make predictions for events by constructing explanations.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Genetic factors as well as local conditions affect the growth of organisms.
- Because both environmental and genetic factors can influence organisms simultaneously, organism growth is the result of environmental and genetic factors working together.
- Because organism growth can have several genetic and environmental causes, the contributions of specific causes or factors to organism growth can be described only using probability.
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
