About This Book | p. VII |
About Our Author | p. VIII |
Acknowledgments | p. VIII |
Introduction | |
Keys for Success on the AP Biology Exam | p. 3 |
Molecules And Cells: Chemistry Of Life, Cells, And Cellular Energetics | |
Water | p. 13 |
Organic Molecules in Organisms | p. 15 |
Free Energy Changes | p. 23 |
Enzymes | p. 27 |
Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells | p. 31 |
Membranes | p. 35 |
Subcellular Organization | p. 39 |
Cell Cycle and Regulation | p. 43 |
Coupled Reactions | p. 47 |
Fermentation and Cellular Respiration | p. 49 |
Photosynthesis | p. 53 |
Heredity And Evolution: Heredity, Molecular Genetics And Evolutionary Biology | |
Meiosis and Gametogenesis | p. 61 |
Eukaryotic Chromosomes | p. 65 |
Inheritance Patterns | p. 67 |
RNA and DNA Structure and Function | p. 77 |
Gene Regulation | p. 83 |
Mutation | p. 85 |
Viral Structure and Replication, Bacterial Gene Regulation | p. 87 |
Nucleic Acid Technology and Applications | p. 91 |
Early Evolution of Life | p. 95 |
Evidence for Evolution | p. 99 |
Mechanisms of Evolution | p. 103 |
Organisms And Population: Diversity Of Organisms, Structure And Function Of Plants And Animals, Ecology | |
Evalutionary Pattern | p. 111 |
Survey of the Diversity of Life | p. 115 |
Phylogenetic Classification | p. 121 |
Evolutionary Relationships | p. 125 |
Plants and Animals-Reproduction, Growth, and Development | p. 127 |
Plants-Structural, Physiological, and Behavioral Adaptations | p. 133 |
AnimalsStructural, Physiological, and Behavioral Adaptations | p. 135 |
Plants-Response to the Environment | p. 147 |
Biosphere | p. 151 |
Population Dynamics | p. 155 |
Communities and Ecosystems | p. 159 |
Ecology-Behavior | p. 165 |
Ecology-Global Issues | p. 167 |
The Exam | |
Major AP Biology Themes and Their Relationship to the Exam | p. 171 |
The 12 AP Biology Labs | p. 175 |
Essay Writing-Exemplars, Data Analysis/Graphing Techniques, Setting Up an Experiment | p. 203 |
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