109 Terms to Know Before Starting IB Biology

All students taking IB or AP Biology need to start with some of the basic vocabulary used in the course. Your summer assignment is to know the following definitions as given below. You will be given the actual definition, characteristics, illustration or a paraphrased version of the definition and you should be able to use the word. I will give a test grade the first day of the class and it will be 25 of these words. These will be randomly chosen. Any student who does not average at least an 85% on this test will take another test the following day. It is important that we don’t have students starting in a hole, so be sure to start strong. To be honest, if you start in a hole, that is okay because you will have an incentive to work hard to dig out of the hole you’ve created as tests count for 40% of your grade. This will not be easy, but that is important. We have to start with off with the highest of expectations.

Next, you will buy the 2017-18 Barron’s or Princeton AP Biology Review Book. Without producing the book upon the first day of class, you will forfeit 10 points from the vocabulary test. The book can be purchased online for less than $10. There is little time to teach basic vocabulary and material you should be familiar with prior to the beginning of the course or concepts taught during your freshman year. This will be a course heavy with lab design and data analyzing skills will be tested, so having the vocabulary is important. Being familiar with the general concepts, framework and vocabulary will make this easier. Use the Barron’s book to possess this knowledge before we tackle the coursework.

Active site

Active transport

Adhesion

Alternation of generations

Alveoli

Amino Acids

Amniotic egg

Angiosperm

Antibodies

Anticodon

Antigen

ATP

Autotroph

Auxins

Binary fission

Biomolecule

Buffer

Capillary

Carbohydrate

Catalyst

Cell Cycle

Cell Wall

Cellular respiration

Cholesterol

Chlorophyll

Chloroplast

Chromatin

Chromosomes

Codon

Cohesion

Controlled variables

Covalent bond

Cuticle

Cytokinesis

Dehydration synthesis

Diploid

DNA ligase

Duodenum

Endoplasmic reticulum

Endosymbiosis

Exon

Enzyme

Eukaryotic cell

External fertilization

Facilitated transport

Fruit

Gametes

Gene

Genetic engineering

Global Warming

Glycerol

Glycogen

Gonads

Haploid

Homeostasis

Homozygous

Hydrogen bond

Hydrolysis

Hyphae

Hypothesis

Incomplete dominance

Independent variable

Innate

Insulin

Intron

Ligand

Logistic growth curve

Marker proteins

Meiosis

Messenger RNA

Mitochondria

Mitosis

Mutation

Natural selection

Nephron

Nucleotides

Oviduct

Pancreas

Passive transport

Pepsin

Photosynthesis

Phloem

Pituitary gland

Plasma

Plasma membrane

Polar bond

Population

Primary productivity

Prokaryotic

Protein

Protista

Replication

Restriction enzymes

Ribosome

Root

RNA polymerase

Sex chromosomes

Species

Spindle fibers

Stomata

Symbiosis

Taxon

Transcription

Transfer RNA

Translation

Transpiration

Uterus

Xylem

Zygote