A1.2: Nucleic Acids
Guiding Questions:
Guiding questions help students view the content of the syllabus through the conceptual lenses of both the themes and the levels of biological organization.
Linking Questions:
Linking questions strengthen students’ understanding by making connections between topics. The ideal outcome of the linking questions is networked knowledge.
Resources:
Guiding questions help students view the content of the syllabus through the conceptual lenses of both the themes and the levels of biological organization.
- How does the structure of nucleic acids allow hereditary information to be stored?
- How does the structure of DNA facilitate accurate replication?
Linking Questions:
Linking questions strengthen students’ understanding by making connections between topics. The ideal outcome of the linking questions is networked knowledge.
- What explains the use of certain molecular building blocks in all living cells? (A2.2)
- What makes RNA more likely to have been the first genetic material, rather than DNA?
- How can polymerization result in emergent properties?
Resources:
- At SHS, Topic A1.2 is taught in the the nucleic acids, DNA replication, organization of genomes, transcription and RNA, translation and cladistics units.
- Quizlet study set for this topic.
- View the general sequence of the SHS course
- View the SHS units mapped to the IB Biology curriculum roadmap