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Welcome to AP Biology
This course is designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory biology course usually taken by biology majors during their first year. Students interested should realize that this course is demanding and requires a discipline to do work beyond what is expected in the Regents Biology course.
PREREQUISITES
  1.  The AP Biology course is designed to be taken by students after the successful completion of a first course in high school biology and one in high school chemistry.
  2. All students will have a summer assignment that is due the first day of school. If the assignment is not completed, the student will be ineligible to take AP Biology.
The two main goals of AP Biology are to help students develop a conceptual framework for modern biology and to help students gain an appreciation of science as a process. The ongoing information explosion in biology makes these goals even more challenging. The primary emphasis in an Advanced Placement Biology course is developing an understanding of concepts as opposed to the memorization of terms and technical details.
The course has 8 major themes:
  1. Science as a process
  2. Evolution
  3. Energy transfer
  4. Continuity and change
  5.  Relationship of structure to function
  6. Regulation
  7. Interdependence in Nature
  8. Science, Technology and Society
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