Welcome to the NEW AP Biology

The first exam was given in May 2013.

National results were a bell curve.

Big Idea 1:

The process of evolution drives the diversity and

unity of life.

Big Idea 2:

Biological systems utilize free energy and

molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic

homeostasis.

Big Idea 3:

Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and

respond to information

essential to life processes.

Big idea 4:

Biological systems interact, and these systems and their

interactions possess complex

properties.

Objectives for the Year

Be able to link the Big Ideas together!Be able to design, implement, and

analyze the results of a controlled experiment.

Be able to apply the concepts of biology to “real life”

Themes of the Study of Life

Campbell Biology

Chapter 1

“An organism is a living whole greater than the sum of its parts.”

Heirarchy of Living Things

Cell Theory

What did each of these people provide as part of the cell theory?

HookeVon LeewenhoekSchleidenSchwannWhy is this the basis of all biology??

Structure determines function…and function determines structure

And this determines everything…

LIFE

Regulation of Cycles and Reactions

Ex. Temperature control Ex. Blood clotting

Diversity of Living Things

EVOLUTION- unifying theme in biology

Charles DarwinGalapagos IslandsDescent with

modificationNatural selectionAdaptationsGeographic isolationAlfred Wallace

Scientific Research and Discovery

Quantitative dataQualitative dataInductive reasoning Deductive reasoningControlled experiments

Science + Technology = Jobs

Medicine (doctor, nurse, PA, radiation etc)Pharmaceutical research, production,

marketing, salesGene therapy researchClassification of new and existing species

based on DNACancer and HIV treatment researchComputer programs for scientific work

What specific questions do you have about the information

in this chapter???