Biology

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the basic focus and concepts of community ecology including species interactions, community structures, community dynamics, and global patterns in species richness and diversity.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain gene expression is controlled in bacteria and eukaryotes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe deuterostome animals including how they are distinguished from each other and organized.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the processes of DNA synthesis, replication, and repair as it relates to the gene.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain basic ecology fundamentals including levels of ecological study, abiotic and biotic factors that organism distribution and abundance, climate patterns affecting animals, and types of terrestrial and aquatic biomes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the concept of an ecosystem including energy flow, nutrient cycles, impact of human activities, global biogeochemical cycles, and effect of global climate change.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain cellular metabolism including the function of enzymes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the basic theory of evolution including evolutionary patterns and the process of natural selection.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the four basic processes of evolution including natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow, and mutation.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe fungi including how these organisms are studied, major processes, reproduction, and life cycles.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain animal adaptations for gas exchange and circulation in light of differing body types and habitats.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how genomes are analyzed and altered using biotechnology.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how genetic information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins including how mutations modify genes and the genome.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain whole genome sequencing and its uses in biology engineering.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe green algae and land plants including how these organisms are studied, their metabolism, survival processes, growth processes, reproduction, and adaptations to life on land.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the structure and function of lipids and membranes including the processes of transporting substances across membranes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the process of meiosis and mitosis including how meiosis produces genetic variation and potential problems.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe Mendel's principles of inheritance including Mendel's experiments, the chromosome theory of inheritance, and how these principles can be used to predict patterns of inheritance.

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

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the purpose and processes of photosynthesis.