109 Terms to Know Before Starting AP Biology
All students taking AP Biology need to start with some of the basic vocabulary used in the course. Your summer assignment is to know the
following definitions as given below. You will be given the actual definition, characteristics, illustration or a paraphrased version of the
definition and you should be able to use the word. I will give a test grade the first day of the class and it will be 25 of these words. These will be
randomly chosen. Any student who does not average at least an 85% on this test will take another test the following day. It is important that we
don’t have students starting in a hole, so be sure to start strong. To be honest, if you start in a hole, that is okay because you will have an
incentive to work hard to dig out of the hole you’ve created as tests count for 40% of your grade. I will not make this easy.
Next, you will buy the 2015 Barron’s AP Biology Review Book, 4th Edition. Without producing the book upon the first day of class, you will
forfeit 10 points from the vocabulary test. The book can be purchased online for less than $15. There is little time to teach basic vocabulary and
material you should be familiar with prior to the beginning of the course or concepts taught during your freshman year. This will be a course
heavy with lab design and data analyzing skills will be tested. Being familiar with the general concepts, framework and vocabulary will make this
easier. Use the Barron’s book to possess this knowledge before we tackle the coursework.
Active site
Active transport
Adhesion
Alternation of generations
Alveoli
Amino Acids
Amniotic egg
Angiosperm
Antibodies
Anticodon
Antigen
ATP
Autotroph
Auxins
Binary fission
Biomolecule
Buffer
Capillary
Carbohydrate
Catalyst
Cell Cycle
Cell Wall
Cellular respiration
Cholesterol
Chlorophyll
Chloroplast
Chromatin
Chromosomes
Codon
Cohesion
Controlled variables
Covalent bond
Cuticle
Cytokinesis
Dehydration synthesis
Diploid
DNA ligase
Duodenum
Endoplasmic reticulum
Endosymbiosis
Estuary.
Enzyme
Eukaryotic cell
External fertilization
Facilitated transport
Fruit
Gametes
Gene
Genetic engineering
Global Warming
Glycerol
Glycogen
Gonads
Haploid
Homeostasis
Homozygous
Hydrogen bond
Hydrolysis
Hyphae
Hypothesis
Incomplete dominance
Independent variable
Innate
Insulin
Logistic growth curve
Marker proteins
Meiosis
Messenger RNA
Mitochondria
Mitosis
Mutation
Natural selection
Nephron
Nucleotides
Oviduct
Pancreas
Passive transport
Pepsin
Photosynthesis
Phloem
Pituitary gland
Plasma
Plasma membrane
Polar bond
Population
Primary productivity
Prokaryotic
Protein
Protista
Replication
Restriction enzymes
Ribosome
Root
RNA
RNA polymerase
Sex chromosomes
Species
Spindle fibers
Stomata
Symbiosis
Taxon
Transcription
Transfer RNA
Translation
Transpiration
Uterus
Xylem
Zygote