Sturgis Charter Public (District) - GRADE HS BIOLOGY |
ITEM INFORMATION | | PERCENT OF DISTRICT'S POSSIBLE POINTS |
ITEM | TYPE | REPORTING CATEGORY | STANDARD | ITEM DESC | | POSSIBLE POINTS | STURGIS CHARTER PUBLIC (DISTRICT) | STATE | DISTRICT-STATE DIFFERENCE |
1 | SR | EC | HS.LS.2.6 | Describe how an environmental change would most likely affect the survival of a species. | | 1 | 82% | 78% | 4 |
2 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.3 | Determine the percentage of offspring from a given cross that would be expected to inherit a particular trait. | | 1 | 67% | 52% | 15 |
3 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.2 | Interpret a model of crossing over and describe how crossing over increases genetic variation. | | 1 | 84% | 69% | 15 |
4 | SR | EV | HS.LS.4.4 | Describe how bacterial reproduction and survival can result in an antibiotic becoming less effective over time. | | 1 | 67% | 58% | 9 |
5 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.4 | Identify an example of polygenic inheritance. | | 1 | 41% | 38% | 3 |
6 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.7 | Describe how a step in a model can be improved to more accurately describe how usable energy is produced by an athlete and identify a product of cellular respiration. | | 2 | 65% | 57% | 8 |
7 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.1 | Use evidence about the number of chromosomes in gametes and body cells to support a claim. | | 1 | 67% | 60% | 7 |
8 | SR | EC | HS.LS.2.7 | Analyze the setup of an experiment to determine the purpose of the investigation about invasive species. | | 1 | 59% | 58% | 1 |
9 | SR | EC | HS.LS.2.2 | Analyze a food web to determine how an increase in one population would affect another population. | | 1 | 48% | 47% | 1 |
10 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.6 | Identify which element is most abundant in a protein. | | 1 | 57% | 45% | 12 |
11 | SR | EV | HS.LS.4.5 | Explain why closely related organisms may not produce fertile offspring in the wild. | | 1 | 86% | 67% | 19 |
12 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.2 | Describe how an inherited mutation most likely affects the functioning of the digestive system. | | 1 | 88% | 79% | 9 |
13 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.2 | Identify the type of cell that can pass a mutation from parent to offspring. | | 1 | 83% | 74% | 9 |
14 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.2 | Describe how an inherited mutation can affect the functioning of the respiratory system. | | 1 | 82% | 74% | 8 |
15 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.1 | Determine the mRNA sequence for a given DNA sequence and determine the missing amino acid of a protein produced as a result of a mutation. | | 2 | 63% | 55% | 8 |
16 | CR | HE | HS.LS.3.3 | Analyze a pedigree to determine the inheritance pattern for a condition, complete a Punnett square for a given cross, determine the probability of inheriting the condition, and explain how the probability was determined. | | 3 | 60% | 49% | 11 |
17 | SR | EC | HS.LS.2.5 | Analyze a graph to compare the rates of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in an aquatic ecosystem. | | 1 | 69% | 43% | 26 |
18 | SR | EV | HS.LS.4.1 | Complete a cladogram showing the relatedness between species based on DNA evidence. | | 1 | 50% | 37% | 13 |
19 | SR | EC | HS.LS.2.5 | Determine two changes that would improve a carbon cycle model. | | 1 | 64% | 56% | 8 |
20 | CR | MO | HS.LS.1.4 | Describe events of interphase, explain why mitosis must occur before cytokinesis, and explain the effect on the human body if a person's cells stopped going through mitosis and cytokinesis. | | 4 | 40% | 29% | 11 |
21 | CR | EV | HS.LS.4.2 | Determine a genotype for a trait based on an inheritance pattern, describe the expected allele frequencies in a population, and explain how changes in allele frequencies can be a result of natural selection. | | 4 | 50% | 41% | 9 |
22 | SR | EC | HS.LS.2.2 | Determine the type of symbiotic relationship between two species. | | 1 | 73% | 69% | 4 |
23 | SR | EC | HS.LS.2.2 | Identify changes that would result in an increase in the size of a population. | | 1 | 70% | 63% | 7 |
24 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.1 | Determine the cell part most responsible for protein synthesis. | | 1 | 74% | 59% | 15 |
25 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.4 | Identify whether a characteristic of an animal is most directly caused by genetic factors or environmental factors, and determine whether the animal's phenotype and genotype change or stay the same. | | 2 | 93% | 88% | 5 |
26 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.2 | Determine how a particular mutation would be expected to affect the function of the resulting protein. | | 1 | 65% | 55% | 10 |
27 | SR | EV | HS.LS.4.5 | Identify an example of speciation due to geographic isolation. | | 1 | 83% | 58% | 25 |
28 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.3 | Determine the expected percentage of offspring with a certain phenotype for a given cross. | | 1 | 61% | 50% | 11 |
29 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.2 | Describe the interaction between the liver and the circulatory system. | | 1 | 68% | 53% | 15 |
30 | SR | EC | HS.LS.2.7 | Describe the impact of an invasive plant species in an ecosystem. | | 1 | 77% | 64% | 13 |
31 | SR | EC | HS.LS.2.1 | Identify an environmental change that would most likely increase the carrying capacity for a given population. | | 1 | 70% | 64% | 6 |
32 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.1 | Use a model to show the process of meiosis and fertilization. | | 1 | 74% | 62% | 12 |
33 | SR | EV | HS.LS.4.1 | Determine the type of evidence that best supports a claim about the relatedness of two species. | | 1 | 78% | 72% | 6 |
34 | SR | EV | HS.LS.4.2 | Explain why one species may be better able to survive a disease outbreak than another species. | | 1 | 85% | 70% | 15 |
35 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.7 | Identify the process that produces energy for cell growth. | | 1 | 46% | 45% | 1 |
36 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.3 | Determine whether substances would be expected to move into or out of cells based on their concentration gradients, and describe how cell membranes help to maintain homeostasis. | | 2 | 77% | 66% | 11 |
37 | CR | EC | HS.LS.2.4 | Identify the ecological role of an organism in an ecosystem, analyze a food web to determine how an increase in one population would affect another population, and explain why producers have the most available energy in an ecosystem. | | 3 | 60% | 54% | 6 |
38 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.1 | Explain why a human infant is genetically similar to, but not identical to, its mother. | | 1 | 83% | 70% | 13 |
39 | SR | MO | HS.LS.1.6 | Identify the monomers that make up an organic macromolecule. | | 1 | 37% | 37% | 0 |
40 | SR | HE | HS.LS.3.3 | Analyze phenotypic data for several genetic crosses to determine the cross that would produce the most heterozygous offspring. | | 1 | 58% | 51% | 7 |
41 | SR | EV | HS.LS.4.4 | Determine the cause of the rapid spread of a virus and explain how new types of viruses can develop. | | 2 | 49% | 40% | 9 |
42 | CR | MO | HS.LS.1.5 | Determine that photosynthesis is a process performed only by plants and that cellular respiration is a process performed by both plants and animals; analyze data to determine whether flasks in an experiment contain plants, animals, or both and explain the reasoning. | | 4 | 63% | 44% | 19 |