AP BIO

Suggested Links

• The Biology Project at the University of Arizona. Animations, tutorials, quizzes, and lab exercises! What more could you ask?*
• Chapter Quizzes for Campbell's Biology The questions are different from those in the text.
• AP Bio - Sample Multiple Choice   
• Biology Hypertext from MIT
• Heart Anatomy        or         Structure of the Human Heart    
• TIME Magazine, Jan 11, 1999, 'The Future of Medicine'
• American Museum of Natural History
• Virtual FlyLab for Mendelian genetics

*Check out the animations for mitosis and meiosis. There are tutorials for just about every bio topic. (Look for respiration under metabolism.) There are also quizzes. I found an exercise on mitosis that's just like the AP mitosis lab where you have to count the number of cells at varying stages of mitosis. I suspect there are other similarly related exercises.

When answering the Free Response questions on the AP Biology Exam:

• Write neatly enough to be read. If a reader cannot read what you write, you cannot get credit.
• Clearly identify the parts of the question.
• Pay attention to spelling. Readers will not take off for spelling, but it is likely to effect their impression of your ability and might subsequently effect their assessment of your response.
• For the laboratory question, you should be sure to:
• State a hypothesis.
• Describe the control.
• Specify repeats in procedure. Be sure to specify intermediate setups, as well as the extremes. For example, instead of generally saying that setups should be provided for temperatures from 20 to 80 degrees, indicate 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 degrees. Quantitative data is better than qualitative data. However, if the data is not quantitative, try to describe a minimum of 3 setups.
• Draw a graph for expected data.
• State a conclusion.

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