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What is AP Biology?

The College Board

High school, college, and university faculty

Same people that produce the SAT

Provides students with the opportunity to take college-level course work and exams while still in high school.

This course is designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory biology course usually taken by biology majors during their first year.

AP Biology should include the topics regularly covered in a college biology course for majors. The textbooks used for AP Biology should be those used by college biology majors and the labs done by AP students must be the equivalent of those done by college students.

1. The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.

2. Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis.

3. Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes.

4. Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties.

1. Evolution

2. Ecology

3. Biomolecules

4. Cells

5. Membranes and Transport

6. Energy and Metabolism

7. Genetics

8. Reproduction

9. DNA Structure and Function

10. Signal Transduction and Gene Expression

11. Genes and Development

12. Homeostasis and Physiology

13. Behavior

1. The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems

2. The student can use mathematics appropriately

3. The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course

4. The student can plan and implement data collection strategies appropriate to a particular scientific question

5. The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence

6. The student can work with scientific explanations and theories

7. The student is able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts, and representations in and across domains

1. Artificial Selection

2. Mathematical Modeling: Hardy-Weinberg

3. Comparison of DNA Sequences Using BLAST

4. Diffusion and Osmosis

5. Photosynthesis

6. Cellular Respiration

7. Cell Division: Mitosis and Meiosis

8. Biotechnology: Bacterial Transformation

9. Biotechnology: Restriction Enzyme Analysis of DNA

10. Energy Dynamics in Ecosystems

11. Transpiration

12. Animal Behavior

13. Enzyme Catalysis

The AP Exam

Part A: 63 Multiple Choice questions on content knowledge and process skills

90 minutes for the MC section

2 long essay questions

10 minute reading time

3 Hours Long

Multiple Choice

50% of Final Grade

Free Response

50% of Final Grade

"To provide the maximum information about differences in students’ achievements in biology, the exams are intended to have average scores of about 50 percent of the maximum possible score for the multiple-choice section and for the free-response section. Thus, students should be aware that they may find these exams more difficult than most classroom exams." -AP Biology course description

Scores

1 through 5

AP GRADE QUALIFICATION

5 Extremely well qualified

4 Well qualified

3 Qualified

2 Possibly qualified

1 No recommendation

How much college credit is earned for each score level depends on the College/University

How do I survive AP Biology?

Course Syllabus

Online Resources

http://ludwig.lajuntaschools.org

Two sections:

Part B: 6 "grid-in" mathematics application questions

no penalties for guessing

6 short essay questions

80 minute writing period

Course Content

AP Biology Content Areas

Big Ideas

Inquiry Labs

Laboratory Investigations

AP Biology Science Process Skills

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