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.
Open Unit 1 lessonsUnit 2 - Cells
Seven interactive lessons and a unit assessment covering cell structures, size, membranes, transport, water balance, gradients, and compartmentalization.
Open Unit 2 lessonsUnit 3 - Cellular Energetics
Six interactive lessons, three digital labs, and a unit assessment covering enzymes, energy coupling, photosynthesis, respiration, chemiosmosis, and experimental analysis.
Open Unit 3 lessonsUnit 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.
Open Unit 4 lessonsUnit 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.
Open Unit 5 lessonsUnit 6 - Gene Expression and Regulation
Six interactive lessons, five digital investigations, and a unit assessment covering DNA, gene expression, regulation, mutation, variation, and biotechnology.
Open Unit 6 lessonsUnit 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.
Open Unit 7 lessonsUnit 8 - Ecology
Six interactive lessons, six digital investigations, and a unit assessment covering responses, energy, populations, communities, biodiversity, and ecosystem disruptions.
Open Unit 8 lessonsAP Biology Exam Review
Open the separate AP Biology Exam Review page for course review and exam practice.
Open exam reviewAP Exam and AP Classroom Info
Exam format and timing, pacing, the formula sheet, and how to use AP Classroom videos, progress checks and reports.
Open exam infoFRQ Tips and Tricks
Command words, graphing and calculation checklists, experimental design, and common point-losing mistakes for free-response questions.
Open FRQ tipsMath 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.
Practice math skillsBuild 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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