AP
Bi
Logy Assignments
Second
Semester
last updated
July 2008
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Week of January
5 assignments: ![]()
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Read
chapters 22 & 23; Lecture on Darwinism
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Week of January
12 assignments:
Read chapters 23 &
24; Lecture: Population Genetics and origin of species
Lab 8: Population Genetics
UNIT 5
REVIEW NOTEBOOK DUE 1/13
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Week of January
19 assignments:
Read chapter 25;
Lecture: Tracing phylogeny; Practice keying
UNIT 6
TEST
on Evolution (Chapters 22-25)
Lab:
Evolution of Primates
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Week of January
26
assignments:
Read chapters 26 & 27; Lecture:
Early earth, prokaryotes, & protists; Retrovirus article abstract due
Lab on
genetics; Lab 8 report due !
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Week of February
2 assignments:
Interims !
Read chapters 28 & 31;
Lecture on algae & fungi; Video: Louis Pasteur
UNIT 6
REVIEW NOTEBOOK DUE 2/3
Programmed Cell Death ABSTRACT DUE 2/5
Parent-Teacher
Conference!
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Week of February
9 assignments:
Read chapters 29 & 30; UNIT 7
TEST
on Prokaryotes & Simple Eukaryotes (chapters 26-28, & 31):
Darwin Day Projects due; Assign abstract Fimbriae,
Fibrils, Sex and Fuzzy Coats
Lab:
Gram Staining
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Week of February
16 assignments:
Monday,
President's Day!
Read chapters 29, 30 & 35;
Lecture: Bryophytes & seedless vascular plants
UNIT 7A
REVIEW NOTEBOOK DUE 2/24
Lab: Photosynthesis
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Week of February
23
assignments:

Read chapters 36; Lecture:
Angiosperms
Lab:
Transpiration
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Week of
March 2 assignments:
Read chapter 37; Lecture:
Transport in plants & Plant Nutrition
TEST over Unit 8A on Plants ( Chapters 29, 30, & 35);
Lab:
Flowers & fruit
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Week of March
9 assignments:
Read Chapters 8 & 39; Lecture:
Plant Control & Development
UNIT 8B
TEST
on
plants (chapters 36-39)
UNIT 7B
REVIEW NOTEBOOK DUE 3/10
Lab:
Clam Dissection
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End of Third Nine Weeks
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Week of March
16
assignments: 
Read chapter 33 ; Lecture:
Invertebrates & introduction to animals
Lab: Crayfish Dissection
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Week of March
30 assignments:
Read Chapter 34; Lecture:
Lower Chordates
UNIT 9A TEST
on invertebrates (chapters
32&33);
Fimbriae, Fibrils, Sex and Fuzzy Coats
ABSTRACT DUE 3/31
Lab:
Animal Behavior
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Week of
April 6 assignments:
Read chapter 40 & 41; Lecture:
Vertebrates
UNIT 9B
TEST on vertebrates
( chapter 35)
Lab:
Dissect
Crayfish
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Week of April 14
assignments:

Read chapters 42 & 43;
Lecture: Animal structure & function & animal nutrition
UNIT 8
REVIEW NOTEBOOK DUE 4/14
Lab:
Dissect
Perch
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Week of April
20 assignments:
Interims !
Read chapters 44-49; Lecture:
Controlling internal animal environments & chemical signals
Unit 10A
TEST
on Animal Systems (chapters
40-43)
Lab
10 on Physiology of Circulation
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Week of April 27 assignments:
Junior-Senior
Prom!
Read chapters 50 - 55; Lecture:
Animal reproduction, development, nervous system, & senses
Unit 10 B TEST
on Animal Systems (Chapters
44-49)
Lab
12 Dissolved Oxygen in Ecosystems
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Week of May
4 assignments:
Lecture: Ecology
UNIT 11 TEST on Ecology
! (chapters 50-55)
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Week of May
11 assignments:
AP
Exam!!!
Fetal Pig Dissection

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Week of May 18 assignments:
Complete Fetal Pig Dissection
Week of May
25 assignments:
Monday, MEMORIAL DAY!
Semester
test review
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