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Embryology and the National Science Standards

A classroom unit in embryology will help you meet the following National Science Standards:

Abilities necessary to conduct scientific inquiry

Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
Design and conduct a scientific investigation.
Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze and interpret data.
Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions and models using evidence.
Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.
Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predictions.
Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.

Structure and function in living systems

Living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
All organisms are composed of cells - the fundamental unit of life.
Cells carry on many functions needed to sustain life.
Specialized cells perform specialized functions in multicellular organisms.

Reproduction and heredity

Reproduction is a characteristic of all living systems.
In many species females produce eggs and males produce sperm. An egg and sperm unite to begin development of a new individual.
Every organism requires a set of instructions for specifying its traits. Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another.
The characteristics of an organism can be described in terms of a combination of traits.

Regulation and behavior

All organisms must be able to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.
Behavior is one kind of response an organism can make to an internal or environmental stimulus.
An organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment.

Abilities of technological design