Ontario Curriculum
C.1.2: evaluate the impact of individual choices (e.g., with respect to vaccination, the proper use of antibiotics or mosquito repellent) on the control of pathogens and the prevention of disease
C.2.3: analyse, using prepared slides or computer simulations, the characteristics, properties, and virulence of various bacteria
C.3.1: describe the characteristics and life cycles, including reproductive cycles, of representative pathogens (e.g., lysogenic cycle; lytic cycle; infectious cycle of malaria)
C.3.2: describe the mode of transmission of various diseases, including those that are insect-borne (e.g., malaria, encephalitis), airborne (e.g., influenza, tuberculosis), water-borne (e.g., cholera, poliomyelitis), sexually transmitted (e.g., HIV/AIDS), and food-borne (e.g., mad cow disease, trichinosis, salmonella)
Disease Spread
Virus Life Cycle (Lytic)
C.3.7: describe aseptic techniques used in the workplace, and explain their importance in preventing the spread of pathogens (e.g., cooking meat to a safe temperature and refrigerating leftovers quickly to avoid growth of bacteria in restaurant food; frequent hand sanitizing and use of sterile gloves in hospitals to prevent the spread of pathogens to vulnerable populations)
D.2.1: use appropriate terminology related to nutritional science, including, but not limited to: macromolecules, protein, starch, vitamin, carbohydrate, fats, lipids, pepsin, and amylase
D.2.2: plan and conduct chemical tests on a variety of foods to determine their chemical components (e.g., protein, starch, fats, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins)
D.2.3: investigate how enzymes break down macromolecules (e.g., amylase digests starch; pepsin and hydrochloric acid digest protein), and test the products of different types of digestion (e.g., use Benedict?s solution to test for the presence of simple sugars produced by the digestion of carbohydrates)
E.2.1: use appropriate terminology related to public health issues, including, but not limited to: pandemic, contamination, infectious disease, quarantine, and vaccination
Disease Spread
Virus Life Cycle (Lytic)
F.2.1: use appropriate terminology related to biotechnology, including, but not limited to: selective breeding, hybridization, replication, mutation, genomics, and gene therapy
DNA Fingerprint Analysis
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Human Karyotyping
F.3.2: explain the structure and functions of macromolecules (e.g., DNA, RNA) and the synthesis of proteins (e.g., transcription, translation, gene expression)
Correlation last revised: 8/18/2015