AP Biology Course Description
AP Biology is an introductory college-level biology course. Students cultivate their understanding of biology through inquiry-based investigations as they explore the following topics: evolution, cellular processes — energy and communication, genetics, information transfer, ecology, and interactions. Extensive amount of time required outside of class.
Biology Course Description
Biology students will understand the cellular structure and the role these structures play in living cells, develop a fundamental understanding of the role of bio-macromolecules, analyze how genetic information is passed to their offspring and how these mechanisms lead to variability and diversity of species, use cladograms and phylogenetic trees to determine relationships among major groups of organisms, and explain how the diversity observed within species has led to the diversity of life across species through a process of descent with adaptive modification.
Science National Honor Society (SNHS) Remind Code: @rhhssnhs
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STEM Scholars Remind Code: @stemscs
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About Mrs. Fitzgerald
I have been teaching high school biology for 18 years. This is my 8th year at RHHS teaching Biology, Honors Biology, & AP Biology. While in Graduate School at UTSW Medical Center studying Molecular Microbiology, I taught a lab course in Medical Microbiology for 2nd year medical students and served as student host to high school students in the STAR program interested in medical research. I found a true love of pathogenic bacteria while studying how infectious strains of E. coli communicate with each other through chemical signals. I wrote curriculum in genetics and served as a graduate tutor coordinator while earning my teaching certificate in graduate school at the University of Illinois.
I serve as the Academic Advisor for the RHHS Chapter of the Science National Honor Society and the STEM Scholars Program. I serve on the Governor's Honors Program (GHP) committee for RHHS as the science advisor. When she’s not enlightening teens on the intricacies of biological phenomena, she’ll be covered in dirt from playing in her pollinator garden, doodling with art, reading a good book, or watching a Marvel film with her loving husband and 2 wonderful sons.