AP Biology

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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