Biology

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the sequence of events that lead to animal development including fertilization, cleavage, gastrulation, and organogenesis, and the final products.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe how animals are defined and organized into phyla.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the structure and function of carbohydrates.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to distinguish plant development from animal development including the processes of embryogenesis, vegetative development, and reproductive development in plants.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe how animal structure is related to function in terms of tissues, organs, organ systems, and homeostasis.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain innate and adaptive immunity in animals.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain ways in which animals including use of the muscular system, the skeletal systems, and various methods of locomotion in land, water, and air.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the use of electrical signaling along neurons for internal communication for animals.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the processes of ingestion, digestion, and absorption of animals including differing mouthparts, digestive tracts, and habitats.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the varying reproductive strategies found in animals.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the different methods used in animals to transform sound, smell, and other stimuli into signals for interpretation by the brain.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the bacteria and Achaea including how these organisms are studied, their metabolism, morphology, and ecological diversity.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the basic principles of development including developmental processes, genes and specialization, regulation, and evolutionary change.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the basic focus and concepts of behavioral ecology related to animals eating, mating, habitat, communication, and cooperation with each other.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the concept of biodiversity and how human behavior is a threat to biodiversity and ecosystem function.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the structure and function of the cell including the differences between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells and the function of the organelles within the cell.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how cells modify their environment and interact with each other through signaling processes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain cellular respiration and fermentation processes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the various methods animals use hormones to regulate body functions and respond to the environment.