Final reflection

Please fill out the following form reflecting on the entire year.  Thank you for being a part of an amazing AP Biology year! :)

Final Review

AP Bio Spring 2014 Study guide

Objectives for AP Bio Spring 2014 Final Resources

This is by no means an exhaustive list.  Remember that places like Khan Academy and Education Portal are great resources. 

You can also search adaptive curriculum for lessons that I haven’t assigned. Use these to help in your studying for the final.  :)

Click here for a hard copy of the info below

Question	Content/Learning Target I can…	Resources
1)	refine scientific models and questions about the effect of complex biotic and abiotic interactions on all biological systems, from cells and organisms to populations, communities and ecosystems	Chapter 1 Mader Chapter 1
2)	analyze data to identify possible patterns and relationships between a biotic or abiotic factor and a biological system (cells, organisms, populations, communities or ecosystems)	Chapters 44 & 45 Mader Chapter 45
3)	predict how a change in genotype, when expressed as a phenotype, provides a variation that can be subject to natural selection.	Chapters 17 Mader Chapter 16
4)	describe representations and models that illustrate how genetic information is copied for transmission between generations	Chapters 8 Mader Chapter 12
5)	use visual representations to analyze situations or solve problems qualitatively to illustrate how interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy.	Chapters 44 & 45 Mader Chapter 45
6)	explain how biological systems use free energy based on empirical data that all organisms require constant energy input to maintain organization, to grow and to reproduce.	Chapters 44 & 45 Mader Chapter 45
7)	construct explanations of the influence of environmental factors on the phenotype of an organism.	Chapters 17 Mader Chapter 16
8)	create representations and models to describe immune responses	Chapters 37 Mader Chapter 33
9)	construct an explanation of the multiple processes that increase variation within a population.	Chapters 17 Mader Chapter 16
10)	connect how organisms use negative feedback to maintain their internal environments.	Chapters 31 Mader Chapter 31
11)	explain the connection between the sequence and the subcomponents of a biological polymer and its properties (specifically DNA structure)	Chapters 8 Mader Chapter 12
12)	describe the connection between the regulation of gene expression and observed differences between individuals in a population.	Chapters 10 Mader Chapter 13
13)	explain the connection between genetic variations in organisms and phenotypic variations in populations.	Chapters 44 Mader Chapter 45
14)	describe representations and models illustrating how genetic information is translated into polypeptides	Chapters 9 Mader Chapter 12
15)	predict how a change in a specific DNA or RNA sequence can result in changes in gene expression.	Chapters 10 Mader Chapter 13
16)	construct a representation that connects the process of meiosis to the passage of traits from parent to offspring (i.e. pedigree & Punnett Squares)	Chapters 14 Mader Chapter 11
17)	predict the effects of a change in the community’s populations on the community.	Chapters 44 & 45 Mader Chapter 45

Good Luck

I am so very proud of all of your accomplishments this year!
I am sure you will do well on the test on Monday!! Good luck!! :)

More AP Practice

Some resources that I have found. Please use them to help :)

• Learnerator (organized by topic)
• Interactive test questions
• Varsity Tutors (all sorts of resources here)
• Mader Bio Book, post tests for each chapter are good reviews as well

AP practice :)

Click here for the released 2013 free response
Click here for the answers
Click here for the formula sheet for the test
Click here for examples of the grid-in questions & answers

AP Bubbling

We are going to do all of the pre-bubbling today for the AP test.  If you are absent, please make sure you see me on the block day to bubble your sheet. :)

Energy Dynamics

What factors govern energy capture, allocation, storage, and transfer between producers and consumers in a terrestrial ecosystem?

BACKGROUND
Almost all life on this planet is powered, either directly or indirectly, by sunlight. Energy captured from sunlight drives the production of energy-rich organic compounds during the process of photosynthesis. These organic compounds create biomass. The net amount of energy captured and stored by the producers in a system is the system’s net productivity. Gross productivity is a measure of the total energy captured. In terrestrial systems, plants play the role of producers. Plants allocate that biomass (energy) to power
their life processes or to store energy. Different plants have different strategies of energy allocation that reflect their role in various ecosystems. For example, annual weedy plants allocate a larger percentage of their biomass production to reproductive processes and seeds than do slower growing perennials. As plants, the producers are consumed or decomposed, and their stored chemical energy powers additional individuals, the
consumers, or trophic levels of the biotic community. Biotic systems run on energy much as economic systems run on money. Energy is generally in limited supply in most communities. Energy dynamics in a biotic community is fundamental to understanding ecological interactions.
To model ecosystem energy dynamics, you will estimate the net primary productivity (NPP) of seeds growing under lights and the flow of energy from plants to butterfly larvae (the consumers) as the larvae eat plants.
The following exercises describe skills and methods for estimating energy flow in a terrestrial ecosystem. Note and record any questions that occur to you as you work through this activity.
 
Questions might include the following:
• What kinds of things affect plant productivity, the growth of cabbage white butterfly larvae, or the interactions of these organisms?
• How do you keep track of energy as it moves through the biological system? Can the techniques used for tracking energy be improved?
• What is the role of energy in ecosystems?

One or more of these questions will help guide you through the final part of this laboratory, where you are expected to carry out your own research project based on one of your questions.