DESE Frameworks Addressed:

VII. Living Systems

A. Structure/Function/Characteristics

1. Cells are the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms and take highly varied forms in different plants, animals and microorganisms.

        a. use appropriate technology and other resources to compare and contrast ways in which special cells carry out reproduction, photosynthesis, respiration, mitosis, meiosis, etc. (1.4; 1.6)

D. Reproduction/Heredity

4. In asexual reproduction of unicellular organisms (and mitosis in multicellular organisms), DNA of parent cells replicates to form identical chromosomes and genes as the cell divides into two identical offspring cells.