Biology Essentials

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the structure and function of cellular organelles in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the earth's biomes including how human activities have endangered the earth's resources and how ecology and environmentalists are working to solve these issues.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the general and biochemistry involved in human development and evolution.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the cellular processes of aerobic and anaerobic respiration.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the process of cellular division and replication.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how biodiversity loss leads to the disappearance of the natural ecosystem including how ecologists are working to solve these issues.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the major advances in DNA technology including use in forensics, gene therapy, and recombinant technology.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to summarize the theories related to the history of biological diversity including extinctions, macroevolution, novelty evolution, and diversity classification.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe genetic expression and regulation including function in cloning and the process of cancerous cells.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the theories of Charles Darwin and summarize his hypotheses, evidence, and processes of evolution and natural selection.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain dominant and recessive genes including how genetic information is inherited.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe how plants cells obtain and utilize energy from the sun.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to summarize the evolution and diversity of plants and fungi including how they adapted to become terrestrial organisms.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the basic concepts of population ecology including population dynamics, population growth models, major factors that affect populations over time, and application of these concepts.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the evolution and diversity of invertebrate, vertebrate, and human ancestry.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the theory of the origin of life including how prokaryotes and protists evolved.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the structure and function of DNA and RNA including the process of replication and how infectious agents and viruses damage or copy DNA.