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A syllabus includes general information about a class
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26 Aug 2007 18:57Jump!
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This site introduces and explains each AP Biology lab. Visit the site and work through the activities before each lab.
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07 Sep 2007 11:15Jump!
Items that do not fit into any one chapter
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16 Nov 2007 21:53Jump!
Some things are just fun to know
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19 Nov 2007 00:35Jump!
Suggestions on how to study, take tests, make better grades, etc.
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14 Mar 2008 13:21Jump!
Unit 1: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Discussions of topics raised in Unit 1: Chemistry and Biochemistry
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This chapter is a review of Basic Chemistry
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27 Aug 2007 16:55Jump!
The unique properties of water make life on Earth possible
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29 Aug 2007 16:43Jump!
Living organisms are made up of chemicals based mostly on the element carbon
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31 Aug 2007 15:30Jump!
Small organic molecules join together to form carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids, the building materials of life
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06 Sep 2007 13:45Jump!
Unit 2: The Cell
Discussion of topics raised in Unit 2: The Cell
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The cell is the basic unit of structure and function for all organisms. Everything an organism does occurs, fundamentally, at the cellular level.
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05 Dec 2007 16:29Jump!
The ability of the cell to discriminate in its chemical exchanges with its environment is fundamental to life. The plasma membrane and its component molecules make this selectivity possible.
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23 Sep 2007 18:04Jump!
Cells communicate with each other, most often by chemical signals. This chapter discusses the main mechanisms by which cells receive, process, and respond to chemical signals from other cells
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17 Oct 2007 01:37Jump!
Omnis cellula e cellula
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17 Oct 2007 01:49Jump!
Sex and all that stuff
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12 Oct 2007 09:38Jump!
Unit 3: Cell Energetics
A discussion of the topics raised in Unit 3, Cell Energetics
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The concepts of metabolism presented in this chapter concern how energy and matter flow through the chemical processes of life
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01 Nov 2007 15:15Jump!
Cells harvest the chemical energy stored in organic molecules and use it to generate ATP, the molecule that drives most cellular work.
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13 Nov 2007 02:25Jump!
Photosynthesis nourishes almost the entire living world, directly or indirectly, by capturing light energy and converting it into chemical energy stored in the bonds of sugar and other organic molecules.
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06 Nov 2007 16:05Jump!
Unit 4: Heredity
A discussion of the topics raised in Unit 4: Heredity
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Modern genetics began in an abbey garden, where a monk, Gregor Mendel, documented a particulate mechanism of inheritance
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13 Nov 2007 10:01Jump!
This chapter describes the chromosomal basis for the transmission of genes from parents to offspring
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28 Nov 2007 21:30Jump!
Unit 5: Molecular Biology
A discussion of the topics raised in Unit 5, Molecular Biology
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This is the story of how biologists deduced that DNA is the genetic materials, how Watson and Crick discovered its structure, and how cells replicate and repair it.
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08 Feb 2008 16:15Jump!
The DNA inherited by an organism leads to specific traits by dictating the synthesis of proteins
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15 Jan 2008 10:09Jump!
Experiments with bacteria and viruses have been instrumental in working out the molecular mechanisms of replication, transcription and translation
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08 Feb 2008 16:19Jump!
The human genome includes 25,000 genes. Managing so much DNA requires that the genome be elaborately organized.
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27 Jan 2008 22:51Jump!
The Human Genome Project was complete in 2003. New DNA techniques have launched a revolution but also raise difficult social and ethical problems
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10 Feb 2008 15:28Jump!
In this chapter, we examine the basic mechanisms that guide development and differentiation from zygote to mature organism
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18 Feb 2008 14:18Jump!
In which we use plasmids to add several genes to E. coli
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05 Mar 2008 10:48Jump!
Unit 6: Evolutionary Biology
A discussion of the topics raised in Unit6, Evolutionary Biology
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A new era of biology began on November 24, 1859, the day Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
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14 Mar 2008 13:05Jump!
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