Animal: Praying Mantis
Twelfth Grade
Life Sciences
Characteristics and Structure of Life
2. Explain why specialized cells/structures are useful to plants and animals (e.g., stoma, phloem, xylem, blood, nerve, muscle, egg and sperm).
Heredity
5. Examine the inheritance of traits through one or more genes and how a single gene can influence more than one trait.
6. Explain how developmental differentiation is regulated through the expression of different genes.
Diversity and Interdependence of Life
7. Relate diversity and adaptation to structures and functions of living organisms at various levels of organization.
Historical Perspectives and Scientific Revolutions
12. Describe advances in life sciences that have important, long-lasting effects on science and society (e.g., biotechnology).
Scientific Inquiry
Doing Scientific Inquiry
1. Formulate testable hypotheses. Develop and explain the appropriate procedures, controls and variables (dependent and independent) in scientific experimentation.
4. Create and clarify the method, procedures, controls and variables in complex scientific investigations.
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