Classification of Organisms
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Georgia Performance Standards
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S5L1
Students will classify organisms into groups and relate how they
determined the groups with how and why scientists use classification.
a.
Demonstrate how animals are sorted into groups (vertebrate and
invertebrate) and how vertebrates are sorted into groups (fish,
amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal).
b. Demonstrate how plants are sorted into groups.
S5L2
Students will recognize that offspring can resemble parents in inherited
traitsand learned behaviors.
a.
Compare and contrast the characteristics of learned behaviors and of
inherited traits.
b. Discuss what a gene is and the role genes play in the transfer of
traits.
