AP Biology

Unit review and exam preparation resources.

Unit 1 - Chemistry of Life

Six interactive lessons and a unit assessment, beginning with scientific method and experimental design before water, elements, macromolecules, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins.

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Unit 2 - Cells

Seven interactive lessons and a unit assessment covering cell structures, size, membranes, transport, water balance, gradients, and compartmentalization.

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Unit 3 - Cellular Energetics

Six interactive lessons, three digital labs, and a unit assessment covering enzymes, energy coupling, photosynthesis, respiration, chemiosmosis, and experimental analysis.

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Unit 4 - Cell Communication and Cell Cycle

Six interactive lessons, three digital investigations, and a unit assessment covering cell communication, signal transduction, feedback, mitosis, checkpoints, and cancer.

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Unit 5 - Heredity

Four interactive lessons, four digital investigations, and a unit assessment covering meiosis, genetic diversity, Mendelian probability, linkage, pedigrees, chi-square, and environmental effects.

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Unit 6 - Gene Expression and Regulation

Six interactive lessons, five digital investigations, and a unit assessment covering DNA, gene expression, regulation, mutation, variation, and biotechnology.

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Unit 7 - Natural Selection

Seven interactive lessons, six digital investigations, and a unit assessment covering selection, population genetics, evidence, phylogeny, speciation, diversity, and origins of life.

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Unit 8 - Ecology

Six interactive lessons, six digital investigations, and a unit assessment covering responses, energy, populations, communities, biodiversity, and ecosystem disruptions.

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AP Biology Exam Review

Open the separate AP Biology Exam Review page for course review and exam practice.

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AP Exam and AP Classroom Info

Exam format and timing, pacing, the formula sheet, and how to use AP Classroom videos, progress checks and reports.

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FRQ Tips and Tricks

Command words, graphing and calculation checklists, experimental design, and common point-losing mistakes for free-response questions.

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Math Skills

Step-by-step explanations, worked examples, and practice with solutions for AP formula-sheet calculations and related course math: metric conversions, statistics and error bars, chi-square, surface area-to-volume, water potential, probability, map distance, Hardy–Weinberg, population growth, diversity, rates, and energy transfer.

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Build a Practice Paper

Build a timed AP-style paper from the units you choose, with optional free-response questions and a code to rebuild it. Each unit page also has a filterable Question Bank.

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