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•Acquire subject matter
•Laboratory procedures and content
•Exam strategies
•Reading and writing skills and strategies
•High score on AP exam
•Willing to spend the time!
•Self motivated!
•Self responsibility! (If you need something—
Ask For IT!!!!!)
•Ability to communicate! (Vocabulary)
•Write, write, write!!!!!!!
•5- point scale
•100 Multiple choice (60%), 4 Essay (40%)
•Graded against all others taking test
(bell curve)
•At least a 3 for chance at credit/
advanced placement
•25% molecules and cells, 25% heredity
and evolution, 50% organisms and
populations
•12 required labs (some lengthy!)
•Brisk pace (about 1 chapter per week)
•Grade about 50% test (graded on “curve”),
35% lab, 15% homework
•Lots of writing practice!
•You will learn to “think outside the box”!!!
•A way of knowing
•Discovery process using inductive reasoning or
•Process of hypothesis testing
•Change of organisms over time
•Driven by natural selection
•Accounts for diversity on Earth
•Capacity to do work
•Living requires ability to link energy
reactions to biochemical reactions
within cells
•All species use same genetic code
•However, species change over time
(evolution)
•Structural level from molecules to organisms
ensure successful functioning in systems
and organisms
•Cells to organisms are in state of dynamic
balance
•Controlled by positive or negative feedback
mechanisms
•Living organisms rarely exist alone
•Everything “connected” in the “big picture”
•Research often leads to technological
advances
•Can have positive or negative effects