The Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems section asks you to solve problems by combining your knowledge of biological and biochemical concepts with your scientific inquiry and reasoning skills. This section tests processes that are unique to living organisms, such as growing and reproducing, maintaining a constant internal environment, acquiring materials and energy, sensing and responding to environmental changes, and adapting. It also tests how cells and organ systems within an organism act independently and in concert to accomplish these processes, and it asks you to reason about these processes at various levels of biological organization within a living system.
This section is designed to: ▪ Test introductory-level biology, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry concepts. ▪ Test biochemistry concepts at the level taught in many colleges and universities in first-semester biochemistry courses. ▪ Test cellular and molecular biology topics at the level taught in many colleges and universities in introductory biology sequences and first-semester biochemistry courses. ▪ Test basic research methods and statistics concepts described by many baccalaureate faculty as important to success in introductory science courses. ▪ Require you to demonstrate your scientific inquiry and reasoning, research methods, and statistics skills as applied to the natural sciences.