TCSS Biology Organisms Content Map
Unit Essential Question: How do modern scientists classify organisms into groups with real biological meaning?
GPD Standard(s):
SB3. Students will derive the relationship between single-celled and multi-celled organisms and the increasing complexity of systems.
B. Compare how structures & functions vary between the six kingdoms.
C. Examine the evolutionary basis of modern classification.
D. Compare & contrast viruses with living organisms.
Concept 1
Chapter 17.1
3C
Taxonomy
Concept 2
Chapter 17.2
3C
Cladograms
Concept 3
Chapter 17.3
3B
Six Kingdoms
Concept 4
Chapter 18.2
3D
Viruses
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Question:
Lesson Essential Questions:
How have taxonomy methods
changed throughout history?
How are cladograms read and
constructed?
How are organisms classified
today?
Vocabulary 1:
Binomial Nomenclature, Domain,
Taxon/taxa, Taxonomy, Carolus
Linnaeus
Vocabulary 2:
Ancestral Character, Cladogram,
Common Ancestor, Derived
Character, Phylogenetic Tree,
Clade
How do the structure and function Why aren’t viruses considered to
of organisms differ from kingdom be living organisms?
to kingdom?
How does the reproduction of
viruses affect organisms?
Vocabulary 3:
Animalia, Archaebacteria,
Archaea, Bacteria, Eubacteria,
Eukarya, Fungi, Plantae, Protista
Vocabulary 4:
Capsid, Core, Virus, Lysogenic
Cycle, Lytic Cycle
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