COURSE SYLLABUS

Course Title: ADVANCED BIOLOGY

Credits Earned:
No. of Hours/Week: 2
Course Requirements:

 Regular and punctual attendance

 Exemplary performance in portfolio assessment which include paper-and-pencil works, mid-quarter and final quarter
assessments/examinations, quizzes, board works and performance tasks
 Active participation in class
 Project-making
 Passing of assignment
 Pass on time a good quality project
Course Description:
This course aims to give the students an advanced background of the important topics in the field of advanced biology
particularly with botany, zoology and microbiology
Course Outline:

Period Coverage Learning Competencies

FIRST QUARTER The learner…
BOTANY  Define the plant cell.
 The Plant Cell  Discuss the mitosis.
 Mitosis  Recognize the plant tissues.
 Plant tissues  Discover the roots, stems, leaves, flowers,
 Roots fruit, and seeds of a plant.
 Stems  Prepare an herbarium preparation
 Leaves
  Flowers
 Fruits
 Seeds
 Herbarium preparation
SECOND QUARTER  Discuss the external anatomy and
integumentary system
ZOOLOGY  Gross anatomy of a frog  Identify the skeletal system
 Describe the girdles
 Describe the bones in the limbs
 Illustrate the muscular system
 Demonstrate the buccal cavity
 Demonstrate the body cavity
 Explain the digestive system
 Illustrate the respiratory system
 Classify the urogenital system
 Illustrate the circulatory system
 Sketch the structure of the heart and blood
vessels
 Explain the Nervous system
 Demonstrate the Sense organ
 Examine the Cranial nerves
 Examine The eye
 Dissecting of frog
THIRD QUARTER
 Definition and basic concepts of  Illustrate the basic concepts of
BIOSYSTEMATIC AND biosystematics taxonomy and biosystematics taxonomy
TAXONOMY classification.  Demonstrate the history and theories
 History and theories of biological  Show the trends in biosystematics
Classification.  Describe the dimensions of speciation
 Trends in biosystematics:  Illustrate the taxonomic characters and
Chemotaxonomy, cytotaxonomy and their kinds
 molecular taxonomy  Explain the origin of reproductive isolation,
 Dimensions of speciation. Species biological mechanism of genetic
concepts: Typological, Nominalistic and incompatibility
Biological species concepts. Subspecies  Discover the taxonomic procedures
and other infra-specific categories.  Discuss the taxonomic keys
 Taxonomic Characters and different  Identify the international code of zoological
kinds. nomenclature
 Origin of reproductive isolation,  Show the synonyms, homonyms and
biological mechanism of genetic tautonomy
incompatibility.
 Taxonomic procedures: Taxonomic
collections, preservation, curetting,
process of identification.
 Taxonomic keys, different types of keys,
their merits and demerits.
 International code of Zoological
Nomenclature (ICZN): Operative
principles, interpretation and
application of important rules:
Formation of Scientific names of various
Taxa.
 Synonyms, homonyms and tautonomy.

FOURTH QUARTER
 PRINCIPLES OF MICROBIOLOGY
MICROBIOLOGY  THE MICROORGANISMS
 PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN MICROBE
INTERACTION
 HUMAN DISEASES CAUSED BY
MICROORGANISMS
 CONTROLLING THE GROWTH OF MICROBES
 BENEFITS AND USES OF MICROORGANISM
 Explain the principle of microbiology
 Discuss the microorganism
 Illustrate the principles of human microbe
interaction
 Describe the human diseases caused by
microorganism
 Analyze the growth of microbes
 ENVIRONMENTAL AND APPLIED  Summarize the benefits and uses of
MICROBIOLOGY microorganisms
 Describe the environmental and applied
microbiology