Biology study guides

A deep-dive guide to Module 1 of the Massachusetts High School Biology MCAS: water and carbon, the four classes of biological molecule, cell structure and function, the selectively permeable membrane and transport, enzymes, and the levels of organization, with the item patterns DESE repeats.

A deep-dive guide to Module 2 of the Massachusetts High School Biology MCAS: ATP as energy currency, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, the carbon cycle, and how the processes link, with the energy-and-matter reasoning and graph patterns DESE repeats.

A deep-dive guide to Module 3 of the Massachusetts High School Biology MCAS: DNA structure and replication, protein synthesis, mitosis and meiosis, patterns of inheritance with Punnett squares, and mutation and biotechnology, with the heredity reasoning and Punnett-square skills DESE repeats.

A deep-dive guide to Module 4 of the Massachusetts High School Biology MCAS: homeostasis and negative feedback, the nervous and endocrine systems, transport and gas exchange, digestion and immunity, and how organ systems interact, with the feedback-graph and structure-function reasoning DESE repeats.

A deep-dive guide to Module 5 of the Massachusetts High School Biology MCAS: natural selection, the evidence for evolution, common ancestry and phylogenetic trees, speciation and changing allele frequencies, and biodiversity and classification, with the data-and-argument reasoning DESE repeats.

A deep-dive guide to Module 6 of the Massachusetts High School Biology MCAS: ecosystem structure, energy flow and the 10 percent rule, matter cycling and decomposers, population dynamics and carrying capacity, ecological interactions, and human impact, with the graph and energy-matter reasoning DESE repeats.