Welcome to Advanced Placement Biology!
Course Description
This course is designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory biology course usually taken by biology majors during their first year. Some AP students, as college freshmen, are permitted to undertake upper-level courses in biology or to register for courses for which biology is a prerequisite. Other students may have fulfilled a basic requirement for a laboratory science course and will be able to undertake other courses to pursue their majors.
AP Biology includes the topics regularly covered in a college biology course for majors. The textbook used for AP Biology is the same one that is used by college biology majors and the labs done by AP students are equivalent of those done by college students.
The AP Biology course is designed to be taken by students after the successful completion of a first course in high school biology and one in high school chemistry. It aims to provide students with the conceptual framework, factual knowledge, and analytical skills necessary to deal critically with the rapidly changing science of biology.
The two main goals of AP Biology are to help students develop a conceptual framework for modern biology and to help students gain an appreciation of science as a process. The ongoing information explosion in biology makes these goals even more challenging. Primary emphasis in an AP Biology course should be on developing an understanding of concepts rather than on memorizing terms and technical details. Essential to this conceptual understanding are the following: a grasp of science as a process rather than as an accumulation of facts; personal experience in scientific inquiry; recognition of unifying themes that integrate the major topics of biology; and application of biological knowledge and critical thinking to environmental and social concerns.
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Welcome New York Mills AP Biology Students!
| ap_biology_syllabus__2009-10.doc |
| ap_biology_formal_lab_report_guidelines_and_rubric.pdf |
Summer Work
| ap_biology_2010_summer_unit.doc |
| hot_zone_study_guide.doc |
| summer_unit_final_assessment.doc |
Lab
| directions_for_completing_virtual_labs.doc |
Chapter 1: Introduction
| chapter_1_reading_guide.pdf |
| chap_1_vocab.doc |
| chap_1_objectives.doc |
| chapter1_presentation.ppt |
Chapter 2: The Chemical Context of Life
| chapter_2_reading_guide.pdf |
| ap_chapter_2.ppt |
Chapter 3: Water and the Fitness of the Environment
| ap_chapter3.ppt |
| ap_ch3.pdf |
Chapter 4: Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
| ap_chapter_4_reading_guide.pdf |
| ap_chapter4.ppt |
Chapter 5: The Structure and Function of Macromolecules
| ap_chapter_5_reading_guide.pdf |
| ap_chapter_5.ppt |
Exam 1 Review
| exam_one_free_response_2009.doc |
Chapter 6: An Introduction to Metabolism
| ap_powerpoint_chapter_6.ppt |
| objectives_chap_6_2007.doc |
Chapter 7: A Tour of the Cell
| cell_organelle_project.pdf |
| ap_chapter_7_reading_guide.pdf |
| ap_chapter_7-_cell_text.ppt |
| chapter_7___lecture_notes_stop_on_11-10.doc |
Chapter 8: Membrane Structure and Function
| ap_chapter_8.ppt |
| chapter_8_reading_guide.pdf |
Exam 2 Review
| cells_and_membranes_ap_test_full.doc |
| free_response_the_cell.doc |
| cell_biology_practice_test.doc |
Chapter 9: Cellular Respiration
| ap_chapter_9_reading_guide.pdf |
Chapter 10: Photosynthesis
| ap_chapter_10_reading_guide.pdf |
| ap_chapter_10_powerpoint.ppt |
| 10_notes.doc |
Chapter 11: Cell Communication
| chapter_11_reading_guide.pdf |
| ap_chapter_11.ppt |
Chapter 12: The Cell Cycle
| chapter_12_reading_guide.pdf |
| ap_chapter12_powerpoint.ppt |
Mid-Term Review
| ap_biology_midterm_review_2010.doc |
Chapter 14: Mendel and the Gene Idea
| ap_chapter_14_reading_guide.pdf |
| ap_chapter_14.ppt |
| genetics_problems.doc |
Chapter 15: The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
| ap_chapter_15_chromosomal_inheritance.ppt |
| ap_ch_15_guided_reading.doc |
Chapter 16: The Molecular Basis of Inheritance
| 16-molecularinheritance.ppt |
| ch-16-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 17: From Gene to Protein
| 17-_genetoprotein.ppt |
| ch-17-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 18: Microbial Models
| 18-_virusbacteria.ppt |
| ch-18-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 19: The Organization and Control of Eukaryotic Genomes
| 19-eukaryoticgenomes.ppt |
| ch-19-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 20: DNA Technology
| 20-dna.ppt |
| ch-20-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 21: The Genetic Basis of Development
| 21-geneticinheritance.ppt |
Chapter 22: Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View or Life
| 22-_darwin.ppt |
| ch-22-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 23: The Evolution of Populations
| 23-_evolutionofpopulations.ppt |
| ch-23-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 24: The Origin of Species
| 24-_originofspecies.ppt |
| ch-24-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 25: Tracing Phylogeny
| 25-_phylogeny.ppt |
| ch-25-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 26: Early Earth and the Origin of Life
| 26-_biologicaldiversity.ppt |
| ch-26-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 27: Prokaryotes and the Origins of Metabolic Diversity
| 27-_prokaryotes.ppt |
| ch-27-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter: 28: The Origins of Eukaryotic Diversity
| 28-_protists.ppt |
| ch-28-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 29: Plant Diversity I: The Colonization of Land
| 29-_plants_ii.ppt |
| ch-29-guided-reading.doc |
Chapter 30: Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants
