AP BIOLOGY ASSIGNMENT SHEET

Biology. Sylvia Mader. Twelfth Edition. 2015

SEMESTER I
Assign. # / Pages / Text Sections / Topics
A VIEW OF LIFE (Chapter 1)
1a / 2 - 7 / 1.1 – 1.3 / Intro to AP/ Big idea 1/ Big idea
1b / 7-15 / 1.4-1.6 / Big idea 3/Big idea 4/ Science practices
CHEMISTRY (Chapters 2 & 3)
2a / 19-25 / 2.1 – 2.2 / Elements and compounds
2b / 26-32 / 2.3-2.4 / Chemistry of water/ Acids and Bases
3a / 35 - 42 / 3.1 – 3.2 / Organic molecules & carbohydrates
3b / 42 - 46 / 3.3 / Lipids
3c / 46 - 52 / 3.4 – 3.5 / Proteins and nucleic acids
CELLS (Chapters 4 & 5)
4a / 57 - 63 / 4.1 - 4.2 / Cell organization / prokaryotes
4b / 64 - 69 / 4.3-4.4 / Eukaryotic structure / nucleus and ribosomes
4c / 69 - 73 / 4.5 – 4.6 / Endomembrane system / peroxisomes / vacuoles
4d / 73- 78 / 4.7 – 4.8 / Energy related organelles / cytoskeleton
5a / 82 - 87 / 5.1 / Membrane models / structure / function/ permeability
5b / 88 - 91 / 5.2 – 5.3 / Passive Transport
5c / 91 - 96 / 5.3 – 5.4 / Active transport/ cell surfaces
CELL ENERGY, CELL RESPIRATION & PHOTOSYNTHESIS (Chapters 6, 7 & 8)
6a / 100 - 104 / 6.1 - 6.2 / Energy flow / metabolic reactions
6b / 105 - 110 / 6.3 – 6.4 / Enzymes & metabolic pathways
7a / 114 - 118 / 7.1 – 7.2 / Photosynthetic organisms / process of photosynthesis
7b / 119 - 123 / 7.3 / Plants/ Light reactions
7c / 123 - 126 / 7.4 - 7.5 / Calvin Cycle / alternate pathways
8a / 129 - 131 / 8.1 / Respiration
8b / 132 - 135 / 8.2 – 8.3 / Glycolysis / Fermentation
8c / 136 - 140 / 8.4 / Inside the mitochondria
8d / 141 – 142 / 8.5 / Metabolism
CELL DIVISION (Chs. 9 & 10)
9a / 148 - 152 / 9.1 – 9.2 / Cell cycle / Eukaryotic chromosomes
9b / 152 - 157 / 9.3 / Mitosis
9c / 158 – 162 / 9.4 – 9.5 / Cancer / prokaryotic division
10a / 167 - 171 / 10.1 – 10.2 / Chromosome number / genetic variation
10b / 172 - 177 / 10.3 – 10.5 / Meiosis / comparisons / human life cycle
10c / 177 - 182 / 10.6 / Changes in chromosomes
INHERITANCE (Chs. 11)
11a / 187 - 190 / 11.1 – 11.2 / Mendel / law of segregation
11b / 191 - 197 / 11.2 – 11.3 / Law of independent assortment / human disorders
11c / 197 - 204 / 11.4 / Beyond Mendel/ Chromosome inheritance
DNA & PROTEIN SYNTHESIS (Chs. 12)
12a / 208 - 212 / 12.1 / Genetic material / structure of DNA
12b / 213 - 215 / 12.2 / DNA replication
12c / 215 - 217 / 12.3 / Genes / genetic code
12d / 217 - 225 / 12.4 – 12.5 / Transcription / translation
GENE REGULATION & BIOTECHNOLOGY (Chs. 13 & 14)
13a / 229 - 238 / 13.1 – 13.2 / Prokaryotic & eukaryotic regulation
13b / 238 - 241 / 13.3 / Mutations
14a / 245 - 249 / 14.1 – 14.2 / DNA cloning / biotechnology
14b / 250 - 256 / 14.3 – 14.4 / Genomics / gene therapy
EVOLUTION (Chs. 15, 16 & 17)
15a / 262 – 270 / 15.1 – 15.2 / History / Darwin’s theory
15b / 270 – 275 / 15.3 / Evidence of evolution
16a / 280 – 285 / 16.1 / Microevolution
16b / 286 – 293 / 16.2 – 16.3 / Natural selection/ Maintaining diversity
17a / 297 – 303 / 17.1 / How species evolve
17b / 303 – 307 / 17.2 / Modes of speciation
17c / 308 – 313 / 17.3 / Macroevolution
ORIGIN OF LIFE & TAXONOMY (Chs. 1819)
18a / 318 - 322 / 18.1 / Origin of life
18b / 322 - 332 / 18.2 / History of life
18c / 332 - 335 / 18.3 / Factors that influence evolution
19a / 338 - 344 / 19.1 – 19.2 / Systematics/ 3 domain system
19b / 344 - 349 / 19.3 / Phylogeny
PLANTS: STRUCTURE & FUNCTION (Chs. 25 & 26)
25a / 465 - 472 / 25.3 / Transport mechanisms in plants
26a / 477 - 484 / 26.1 / Plant hormones
26b / 485 – 493 / 26.2 – 26.3 / Plant growth and movement/ response to phytochrome