Gateways to Science STAAR Edition, Grade 7
TEKS Science Concepts—Lesson Checklist
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TEKS Lessons
Organisms and Environments
7.13A Investigate how organisms respond to external stimuli found in the environment such
as phototropism
and fight or flight
2.8
Variations within Populations
3.4
Ecological Succession
5.5
Maintaining Balance
7.13B Describe and relate responses in organisms that may
result
from internal stimuli
such as wilting in plants and fever or vomiting
in animals that
allow
them to maintain
balance
5.5
Maintaining Balance
Organisms and Environments
7.14A Define
heredity as the passage
of genetic
instructions from one generation
to the
next generation
4.5
Inherited Traits
4.6 Understanding Traits and
Genes
7.14B Compare the results of uniform or diverse offspring from sexual reproduction or
asexual reproduction
4.4 Reproduction in
Organisms
4.7 Diversity
of Offspring
7.14C Recognize
that
inherited traits
of individuals are governed in
the genetic material
found in
the genes within chromosomes in
the nucleus
4.5
Inherited Traits
4.8
Selective Breeding
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