• Unit 1: Chemistry of Life

• Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function

• Unit 3: Cellular Energetics

• Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle

• Unit 5: Heredity

• Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation

• Unit 7: Natural Selection

• Unit 8: Ecology

Mr. Woodruff graduated from Homewood High School and the University of Alabama, with graduate work for a teaching certificate at Armstrong State College.

He has taught biology, physical science, earth science, environmental science, physics, IB Biology, and AP Biology. For four years he taught at an environment education center in Savannah, Georgia, and for four years he taught various levels of math at a 10th-grade semester away program in the mountains of western North Carolina where he also taught bread baking and white water canoeing. Mr Woodruff has taught at Hoover High School since 1999 and has taught AP Biology since 2002.

This course is designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory biology course usually taken by biology majors during their first year. My three main goals for this course are:

1. Providing students with a good college-level introductory biology course.

2. Preparing students for the AP Biology exam.

3. Continuing to foster the enthusiasm and love for science.

The 4 Big Ideas specified by College Board (Evolution, Energetics, Information Storage and Transmission, and Systems Interactions) will serve as a foundation for the course and permeate each unit.

"Students must have passed a first year biology course and a year of chemistry. Typically, those students that have taken Adv Lvl Biology and Adv Lvl Chemistry are better prepared for the rigor and pacing of this course."

Mr. Woodruff works very hard to make himself available to students for out-of-class assistance and believes that the students who take advantage of that help are more likely to succeed.