AP Biology Semester One Summary Mrs. Hunt – St. John Bosco HS 1

 What are the 5 topics you believe you understand the best from first semester? (wait for the list…) 2

 What are the 5 topics you believe you understand the least from first semester? (wait for the list…) 3

Topics:  Summer review:  Chemistry of life  Water and its properties  Organic Chemistry  The four macromolecule classes  Parts of a cell   Evolution:  Charles Darwin/Natural Selection  Hardy-Weinberg  Microevolution vs. Macroevolution  Reproductive isolation  Genetic drift  Gene flow  Early origins of the Earth  Adaptive radiation   Ecology:  Biomes  Ecological interactions and relationships   Membrane Structure and Function:  Fluid mosaic model of a membrane  Membrane proteins  Exocytosis  Endocytosis  Passive Transport  Diffusion  Osmosis  Facilitated diffusion  Active Transport  Membrane Potential  Proton Pump/Sodium-Potassium Pump  Statistics:  Chi- squared testing   Metabolism:  Catabolic vs. Anabolic pathways  Free Energy  Structure of ATP  Enzymes   Cellular Respiration:  Glycolysis  Krebs cycle  Electron transport chain  Fermentation  Chemiosmosis   Photosynthesis:  Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs  Calvin cycle  Light reactions  Chloroplasts/Chlorophyll  C 3 plants and C 4 plants  Electron flow (linear and cyclic)   Cell communication:  Local vs. long distance signaling  Signal transduction pathway   Cell cycle:  Organization of Genetic material  Mitosis and cytokinesis  Binary fission  Cancer   Sexual life cycle:  Meiosis  Alternation of generations  Comparison of meiosis and mitosis   Genetics:  Gregor Mendel and his genetic laws  Punnett squares  Genetic vocabulary  Probability math rules  Extending Mendel’s Genetics for inheritance patterns  Pedigrees   Chromosomal inheritance:  T.H. Morgan  Sex-linked genes  Genetic recombination and linkage  Abnormal chromosome number 4

Summer Review:  Chemistry of life  Water and its properties  Organic Chemistry  The four macromolecule classes  Parts of a cell 5

Evolution:  Charles Darwin/Natural Selection  Hardy-Weinberg  Microevolution vs. Macroevolution  Reproductive isolation  Genetic drift  Gene flow  Early origins of the Earth  Adaptive radiation 6

Statistics:  Chi squared testing 7

Ecology:  Biomes  Ecological interactions and relationships 8

Membrane Structure and Function:  Fluid mosaic model of a membrane  Membrane proteins  Exocytosis  Endocytosis  Passive Transport  Diffusion  Osmosis  Facilitated diffusion  Active Transport  Membrane Potential  Proton Pump/Sodium-Potassium Pump 9

Metabolism:  Catabolic vs. Anabolic pathways  Free Energy  Structure of ATP  Enzymes 10

Cellular Respiration:  Glycolysis  Krebs cycle  Electron transport chain  Fermentation  Chemiosmosis 11

Photosynthesis:  Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs  Calvin cycle  Light reactions  Chloroplasts/Chlorophyll  C 3 plants and C 4 plants  Electron flow (linear and cyclic) 12

Cell communication:  Local vs. long distance signaling  Signal transduction pathway 13

Cell cycle:  Organization of Genetic material  Mitosis and cytokinesis  Binary fission  Cancer 14

Sexual life cycle:  Meiosis  Alternation of generations  Comparison of meiosis and mitosis 15

Genetics:  Gregor Mendel and his genetic laws  Punnett squares  Genetic vocabulary  Probability math rules  Extending Mendel’s Genetics for inheritance patterns  Pedigrees 16

Chromosomal inheritance:  T.H. Morgan  Sex-linked genes  Genetic recombination and linkage  Abnormal chromosome number 17

Your best topics…  Briefly summarize each of your 5 strongest topics now on your paper. 18

Your “not best” topics…  Find one person in the room that has your “least” as their “best” and have them briefly review the concept with you. Do this with each of your 5 topics. Try to find 5 different people.  Do not explain it on paper… just write the name of the person who explained it to you next to the topic. (and if no one can explain it, use your book! List your book!) 19

Summation…  How do you now feel about your “least” topics? Can you move any out of this category? (Do not answer these two questions on your paper… just think about them) Lastly, answer these two questions: (write out the question)  What do you hope to do better this semester?  What do you plan to do similar this semester? 20