GAP: Body Plans and Development

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Students delve into the way in which organisms are organized.  Their exploration includes investigation of life cycles, tissue organization and body plans.

  • Explore the organization of multicellular organisms from the cell to system level
  • Compare and contrast the structure of epithelial, connective, nervous and muscular tissue
  • Investigate the process of morphogenesis in different organisms such as amphibians, insects and mammals
  • Discover differences in how unicellular and multicellular organisms are organized
  • Compare the body plans of asymmetric, radially symmetric and bilaterally symmetric organisms