The systems of the human body have a variety of structures and functions. Characteristics of organisms are inherited or environmentally influenced. Life Cycles Of Organisms Variations within a species may give individuals an important advantage in surviving and reproducing. Fossils provide evidence of previous life forms and fossils can be compared to one another and to living organisms to observe their similarities and differences. Organisms And Their Environment Living things in an ecosystem interact with one another and the nonliving environment.
Humans affect and depend on their natural and constructed environments.
These grade level performance standards are listed developmentally. However, each school is uniquely organized. Things Understand the structure and function of cells, organs, tissues, organ systems, and whole organisms. Show how organisms have adapted structures to match their functions, providing means of encouraging individual and group survival within specific environments. Reproduction And Heredity Investigate and explain that heredity is comprised of the characteristic traits found in genes within the cell of an organism.