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SCIENCE 3024: Human Anatomy and Physiology (H)* 5 credits per semester Prerequisite: Honors Chemistry or Chemistry (AP), Approval of Science Dept. Chair concurrent enrollment in AP Biology or IB Biology HL 1 Grade level: 11th 3045: Biology IB HL 2* 5 credits per semester Prerequisite: Department approval (Open only to IB Diploma candidates) Grade level: 11th-12th This course is a two year IB Biology higher level class. It is designed to relate structure to function of living things at all levels of complexity and to provide students with an appreciation of structures and their functions. Students explore diversity of organisms, species that exist in a range of habitats and show adaptations that relate structure and function. Students are also encouraged to grasp the idea of a living world in which universality means that a diverse range of organisms are connected and interdependent. They investigate the checks and balances that exist both within living organisms and within ecosystems, and explore the diversity within constraints leading to adaptations of structure and function. Those taking the course as IB HL take the IB exam in May. Honors Human Anatomy and Physiology is an AP Biology co-requisite course for 11th grade medical magnet students. This class is designed to introduce students to the study of structures and functions of the human body. Emphasis is placed on relating suitability of structure to function to general principles within each organ system, and then to the body as a single functional unit- providing an understanding of how these parts interact with each other for the body to function properly and maintain homeostasis. In addition students will study the evolutionary development of biological organisms in terms of mechanisms and evidence for evolution as a basis for the biological diversity of the biosphere in which humans exist. 3020: Human Anatomy and Physiology CP* 5 credits per semester Prerequisite: Biology CP or H and Chemistry CP or H Grade level: 11th & 12th 3044: AP Biology/Biology HL 1* 5 credits per semester Prerequisite: Chemistry H or AP (with a C+ or higher), Biology H (with an A or B), department approval Grade level: 11th & 12th Note: Cannot be taken with Biology (AP) or Biology HL IB. This course provides students with an understanding of human body systems and their relationship to human health and well being. Through lectures labs and research projects, students explore the working of the human body. This course studies the structure/function relationships of the human body. This course is design only for students with an in-depth knowledge of the field of biology. Students develop an appreciation of the interaction among biological levels from the molecular to the biosphere. The course of study includes material from the AP and IB programs and prepares students for these examinations as well as the SAT II Biology Subject Test. This course may also serve as college credit for those students who receive passing scores and for colleges that accept these scores. The AP exam is taken at the end of the first year. Those taking this course as the first half of IB Biology will take the IB higher level exam at the end of their senior year. The AP Biology course is designed to give students a thorough background in biology and explore its relation to disease and medicine. AP Biology is to be taken concurrently with Human Anatomy and Physiology H. FAIRMONT PREPARATORY ACADEMY 18