AP Biology Course Outline – 2nd Semester
Week 1 - January 21 – 24
MONDAY - Martin Luther King Holiday – NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY - Lecture on Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3: Glycolysis and the Citric Acid Cycle
WEDNESDAY - Lecture on Chapter 9.4, 9.5, 9.6 Electron Transport System, Chemiosmosis, and Fermentation;
THURSDAY - Pogil acitivity; Comparing Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration; Lab Bench: Cellular
Respiration; go through lab and complete and print quiz
FRIDAY - AP Lab 5 Cellular Respiration; Formal Lab Report on Photosynthesis Investigative Lab due at the
beginning of the hour; Lab Packet on Cellular Respiration lab due Wednesday, January 29
Week 2 - January 27 - 31
MONDAY - Chapter 12 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture on Cell Division in prokaryotes
and eukaryotes; Mitosis and the Cell Cycle
TUESDAY - CELL ENERGY UNIT TEST (CHAPTERS 8.1,8.2,9,10) 20-25 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS, 2 GRID-IN
OR PROBLEM SOLVING, 2 SHORT ANSWER AND 1 LONG FREE-RESPONSE QUESTION
WEDNESDAY -Continue lecture on Chapter 12 - Control of the cell cycle;
THURSDAY - Chapter 13 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture on Chapter 13; Meiosis and
genetic variation
FRIDAY
- Complete Chapter 13 lecture; Complete Lab Bench Mitosis and Meiosis, quiz due Monday
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Week 3 - February 3 – February 7
MONDAY - AP Biology Lab 3 “Mitosis and Meiosis” Part A and Part B
TUESDAY - Complete AP Biology Lab 3, Part C; Additional lab activity, evaluating effect of mitosis activator on
dividing cells using provided data and Chi Square Analysis; Lab Packet due Monday, February 10
WEDNESDAY - Chapter 14 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture Chapter 14 – Principles of
Medelian genetics and rules of probability
THURSDAY - Probability Lab to be completed in class
FRIDAY - Complete Chapter 14 lecture; Complex patterns of inheritance; Human Mendelian traits
Week 4 - February 10 - February 14
MONDAY - Lab 3 due at beginning of the hour; Chapter 15 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour;
Lecture: Chapter 15 - Chromosomal basis of inheritance; Handout Human Genetics Problems – begin as
homework
TUESDAY - Complete Chapter 15 lecture; Go over Genetics Practice Problems
WEDNESDAY - Simulated “Fruit Fly Genetics”
THURSDAY - Complete Fruit Fly Genetics Simulation
FRIDAY - Cell Division and Genetics Unit Test;
Week 5 - February 17 – 21 WINTER BREAK - NO SCHOOL / PRACTICE AP BIOLOGY TEST ASSIGNED - EMAIL
RESULTS TO ME BEFORE RETURNING
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Week 5 - February 24 – February 28
MONDAY - Chapter 16 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture: History and structure of DNA;
DNA replication and its relationship to cancer
TUESDAY - “Extraction of Strawberry DNA” Begin Chapter 17 lecture: Transcription and Translation
WEDNESDAY - Chapter 17 reading guide due at beginning of the hour (Begin with question 11; Continue
lecture on Transcription and Translation
THURSDAY - Chapter 18 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture: Regulation of Gene
Expression
FRIDAY
- Complete Lecture on Chapter 18 - Regulation of Gene Expression
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Week 6 - March 3 - March 7
MONDAY - Chapter 19 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Chapter 19 lecture: Viruses
TUESDAY - MME Testing Day 1
WEDNESDAY - MME Testing Day 2
THURSDAY
- MME Testing Day 3
FRIDAY - Chapter 20 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture on DNA technology
Week 7 - March 10 - March 14
MONDAY - Complete Chapter 20 lecture: DNA Technology; Lab Bench 6 due Tuesday
TUESDAY - AP Biology Lab 6 “Molecular Genetics” Lab 6A “Transfomation”
WEDNESDAY - Complete AP Biology Lab 6 A Explain Lab 6B “Gel Electrophoresis and Restriction Fragment
Mapping” Do paper simulation. Actual lab to be done on Saturday, date to be determined by class
THURSDAY - Parent Teacher conferences - Half-day - Flexible catch up day
FRIDAY Molecular Genetics Unit Test Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19, 20; 25 multiple choice questions, 2 grid
ins or problems, 2 short answer and one long free response
Week 8 - March 17 - March 21
MONDAY - Chapter 35 will not be on the AP Exam: Short lecture on plant structure and growth to provide
background for covered plant chapters
TUESDAY - Chapter 36 (Review water potential from 1st semester) reading guide due at beginning of the hour;
Lecture on transport in plants and plant nutrition; AP Biology Investigative Lab 11 - “Transpiration” pre-lab
questions due Wednesday
WEDNESDAY - AP Biology Lab 11 “Transpiration”
THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
reproduction
Complete Transpiration Lab
Chapter 38 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture Chapter 38 Angiosperm
Week 9 - March 24 - March 28
MONDAY - Chapter 39 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture on plant hormones and
photoperiodism
TUESDAY - Continue Chapter 39 lecture
WEDNESDAY - Return to Chapter 45 and cover specific Animal Hormones
THURSDAY
FRIDAY -
- Plant topics and animal hormones Test; 20 – 25 multiple choice and 2 free response
Half-day; Flexible Catch up day
Chapter 43 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture on the Immune system
END OF THE THIRD MARKING PERIOD
4th Cardmarking
Week 1 - March 31 - April 4
MONDAY - Chapter 40 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture: Basic Principles of Animal
Form and Function
TUESDAY - Complete Chapter 40 lecture; Go over thermoregulation and energy allocation in animals
WEDNESDAY - Film “Homeostasis
THURSDAY - Chapter 43 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour; Lecture on the Immune system
FRIDAY
- Complete lecture on the immune system; Pogil activity on the immune system – homework if
not complete; Over holiday, AP Practice Exam, email results before return to class
SPRING BREAK - APRIL 7 - APRIL 11
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Week 2 - April 14 - April 19
MONDAY - Chapter 49.2 reading guide due at the beginning of the hour: Lecture: The Vertebrate Brain. Lab
Bench 11 “Dissolved Oxygen”
TUESDAY - Dissolved Oxygen Lab, Part A
WEDNESDAY - Dissolved Oxygen Lab, Part B and C; packet due Wednesday, April 21
THURSDAY - Half-day; flexible catch up day
FRIDAY
- NO SCHOOL
THERE WILL BE A SATURDAY REVIEW ON MAY 10; IT WILL BEGIN AT 8:30 AM AND CONTINUE UNTIL ALL
MATERIAL IN QUESTION HAS BEEN REVIEWED. PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND.
Week 3 - April 21 - April 25
MONDAY - AP Test Review
Animal Behavior and Ecology Unit
TUESDAY - AP Test Review
Ecology Unit and Lab 11 Dissolved Oxygen
WEDNESDAY - AP Test Review
Evolution Unit
THURSDAY
- AP Test Review
Evolution Unit and Lab: Hardy Weinberg and Blast Lab
FRIDAY
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AP Test Review Biodiversity Review
Week 4 - April 27 – May 1
MONDAY - AP Test Review
TUESDAY -
AP Test Review
Functional Units in mammals – alveoli, villi, nephrons, sarcomeres, neurons
Chemistry Unit
WEDNESDAY - AP Test Review Chemistry Unit and Labs 2 Enzyme Catalysis
THURSDAY
- AP Test Review
Cell Unit: Cell Organelles and plasma membrane
FRIDAY
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Lab 1 Diffusion and Osmosis; cell communication and cell cycle
AP Test Review
Week 5 - May 4 – May 9
MONDAY
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AP Test Review Cell Energy Unit
TUESDAY
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AP Test Review
WEDNESDAY - AP Test Review
Cell Energy Unit and Labs 4 and 5 Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration
Meiosis and Mendelian Genetics; Meiosis and Mitosis Lab
THURSDAY - AP Test Review
DNA and Molecular Genetics; Labs 6A and 6B
FRIDAY
Homeostasis: Thermoregulation and Hormones (plants and animals)
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AP Test Review
In addition to class review, there will be after school review session during the week of April
27 – May 1
AP Biology Exam is Monday, May 12