AP Biology
Overview
This challenging two-semester course engages you in a wide variety of activities. There is substantial emphasis on interpreting and collecting data in virtual labs, writing analytical essays, and mastering biology concepts.
Major Concepts:
- Science as a Process
- Relationship of Structure to
- Function
- Energy Transfer
- Regulation
- Science
- Technology & Society
- Continuity and Change
- Evolution
- Interdependence in Nature
- Scientific method
- Basic chemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Polymerization
- Isomers
- Functional groups
- Biochemistry
- Properties of water
- Metabolism
- Enzymes
- Cell structure and function
- Cell processes
- Cell division
- Cell research including information on cancer cells, and gametogenesis
- Inheritance and genetics
- Mendel’s work in genetics
- Statistical analysis of genetic information
- Non-Mendelian patterns of inheritance
- Nuclear processes, role of DNA and/or RNA in replication, transcription and translation
- Mutations and how these can be seen in populations
- DNA technology
Evolution - Genetic drift and gene flow
- Mutations in populations
- Non-random mating
- Natural selection
- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
- Macroevolution
- Relationship of Structure to Function
- Continuity and Change
- Interdependence in Nature
- Evolution
- Energy Transfer
- Regulation
- Systematics
- Viruses, bacteria, and fungi
- Plant evolution and diversity
- Alternation of generations/plant life cycles
- Plant structure and function
- Plant growth and reproduction
- Plant nutrients and hormones
- Photosynthesis
- Phylogeny and animal diversity
- Transport in animal systems
- Immunology
- Osmoregulation
- Chemical regulation
- Reproduction and development
- Nervous system
- Muscular and skeletal system
- Levels of organization
- Biotic and abiotic factors
- Ecosystems, populations, and communities
- Symbiosis, food webs, and keystone predators
- Biogeochemical cycles in the environment
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