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Class Expectations found on Durango Website
http://www.durangohighschool.net/
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Course Information, supplemental materials, AP test info
go to www.collegeboard.com
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Online Textbook/Notes go to http://www.coursenotes.org/Biology/Slides/Campbells_Biology_7th_Edition
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Class PowerPoints/Notes go to my.ccsd.net
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Review videos at http://www.bozemanscience.com/apbiology/
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Email me: kdellamora@interact.ccsd.net
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After school help: EVERYDAY!!!!
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Big Idea 1: Evolution
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Big Idea 2: Cellular Processes: Energy and
Communication
The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity
of life.
Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular
building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain
dynamic homeostasis.
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Big Idea 3: Genetics and Information Transfer
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Big Idea 4: Interactions
Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to
information essential to life processes.
Biological systems interact, and these systems and
their interactions possess complex properties.
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Monday, May 12, 2014
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/biology/exam.html?biolo
gy
Multiple Choice (63 questions) & Grid-In (6
questions, math)
◦ 90 minutes
◦ 50%
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Free Response (2 Long-FR, 6 Short-FR)
◦ 80 minutes + 10 minute reading period
◦ 50%
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For each AP course you take in high school
(typically your junior and/or senior year), an AP
Exam is administered in May at participating high
schools worldwide.
Each AP Exam is given an overall grade of 1, 2, 3,
4, or 5, (5 is the top score).
Colleges and universities set their own score for
credit or advanced placement in each course,
however, a score of 3, 4, or 5 typically indicates a
student who is qualified to receive college credit
and/or advanced placement.
70%
61%
60%
No AP
One AP
50%
Two AP
45%
40%
30%
29%
20%
10%
0%
Percentage
Students who take
AP courses and
exams are more
likely than their
peers to complete
a bachelor’s degree
in four years or
less.
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3-ring binder (2-inch or two
smaller ones)
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Loose-leaf paper
3.
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16 tabs=AP Biology Units
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2013-2014
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Experimental Design
Carbon/Biomolecules
Energy/Enzymes
Cells
Cell Transport
Cell Signaling
Cellular Respiration
Photosynthesis
Cell Cycle
Genetics
DNA
Protein Synthesis
Gene Regulation
Evolution
Animal Form & Function
Ecology
 1st AP Lab Report: Animal Behavior
Mini- Posters
 Microscopes to view the differences
between Plant and Animal Cells
 Agar “Cell” Models to show why cells
have to be so small!