AP Biology Calendars & Assignments

Unit 4- Cell Communication and Cell Cycle

• 9- The cell cycle

• 32- Feedback control, homeostasis, thermoregulation

Unit 5- Heredity

• 10- Meiosis and sexual life cycles

• 11- Mendel and the gene idea

• 12- The chromosomal basis of inheritance

Unit 6- Gene Expression and Regulation

• 13- The molecular basis of inheritance

• 14- Gene expression: from gene to protein

• 15- Regulation of gene expression

• 16- Development, stem cells, and cancer

• 17- Viruses

• 24.2, 24.3- Bacterial genetics

Unit 7- Natural Selection

• 19- Descent with modification

• 20- Phylogeny

• 21- The evolution of populations

• 22- The origin of species

• 23- Broad patterns of evolution

• 24- Early life and the diversification of prokaryotes

• 25.1- The origin and diversification of eukaryotes

Unit 8- Ecology

• 29- Animal behavior

• 40- Population ecology and the distribution of organisms

• 41- Species interactions

• 42- Ecosystems and energy

• 43- Global ecology and conservation biology