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Energy Transformations and Matter Exchange

Virginia SOL BIOII.3

Investigate how the highly complex organization of living systems requires energy transformations and the exchange of matter.

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What students need to be able to do

  • Compare energy changes associated with anabolic and catabolic metabolic pathways.
  • Develop and use a model to explain the two stages of photosynthesis and describe their interdependence.
  • Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the importance of photosynthesis and respiration in the cycling of matter and transfer of energy within living systems.
  • Plan and conduct an investigation to compare factors that affect enzyme activity and explain how these factors influence energy and matter in living systems.
  • Predict how disruption in enzyme activity will affect energy and matter in living systems.