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Introduction · Life at every scale

  1. What biology studies, and at what scales11 ideas · 3 parts · 2 questions
  2. Zooming in on a living thing: cells, molecules and atoms28 ideas · 5 parts · 8 questions
  3. Zooming out from one organism: populations, communities and ecosystems19 ideas · 4 parts · 8 questions
  4. The four questions AP Biology asks at every level26 ideas · 4 parts · 7 questions

Unit 1 · Chemistry of Life

Topic 1.1 · Structure of Water and Hydrogen Bonding

  1. Bonds and partial charges27 ideas · 6 questions
  2. The hydrogen bond22 ideas · 10 questions
  3. Water sticks to itself and to other things20 ideas · 15 questions
  4. Slow to warm16 ideas · 6 questions
  5. Cooling by evaporation22 ideas · 7 questions
  6. Why ice floats13 ideas · 5 questions

How AP Biology asks you questions

  1. Four options, one answer14 ideas · 4 questions
  2. What the verb is asking for: Describe, Explain, Predict28 ideas · 10 questions
  3. What the verb is asking for: Justify, Identify, Represent26 ideas · 8 questions
  4. How a point is earned29 ideas · 8 questions
  5. A free-response question, step by step13 ideas · 2 questions
  6. What the verb is asking for: Make a claim, Support a claim, Evaluate, Determine57 ideas · 25 questions

Topic 1.1 · Structure of Water and Hydrogen Bonding (continued)

  1. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  2. End-of-topic test: Structure of Water and Hydrogen Bonding18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 1.3 · Introduction to Biological Macromolecules

  1. Chains: build and break21 ideas · 7 questions
  2. Counting the water28 ideas · 17 questions
  3. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  4. End-of-topic test: Introduction to Biological Macromolecules18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 1.4 · Carbohydrates

  1. One sugar, many chains21 ideas · 8 questions
  2. Starch, glycogen and cellulose17 ideas · 6 questions
  3. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  4. End-of-topic test: Carbohydrates18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 1.5 · Lipids

  1. Why oil and water don't mix25 ideas · 8 questions
  2. Butter or olive oil30 ideas · 17 questions
  3. Where the energy in a food store comes out16 ideas · 5 questions
  4. Building a fat10 ideas · 3 questions
  5. Steroids and hormones13 ideas · 7 questions
  6. The membrane around every cell26 ideas · 5 questions
  7. Cholesterol, cold water and the membrane25 ideas · 5 questions
  8. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  9. End-of-topic test: Lipids18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 1.7 · Proteins: Structure and Function

  1. Inside one amino acid28 ideas · 6 questions
  2. From amino acids to a chain22 ideas · 7 questions
  3. Coils and sheets in the chain12 ideas · 3 questions
  4. What the R groups do10 ideas · 4 questions
  5. Why the nonpolar R groups end up inside9 ideas · 3 questions
  6. Shape is the job22 ideas · 6 questions
  7. Change one amino acid14 ideas · 4 questions
  8. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  9. End-of-topic test: Proteins: Structure and Function18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 1.6 · Nucleic Acids

  1. The nucleotide27 ideas · 14 questions
  2. Joining nucleotides into a strand21 ideas · 16 questions
  3. The second strand22 ideas · 17 questions
  4. Counting the bases14 ideas · 9 questions
  5. One strand, no partner8 ideas · 5 questions
  6. Antiparallel strands and the double helix21 ideas · 10 questions
  7. Writing a strand from its 5 end13 ideas · 4 questions
  8. DNA or RNA?11 ideas · 4 questions
  9. Reading a model of DNA12 ideas · 4 questions
  10. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  11. End-of-topic test: Nucleic Acids18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 1.2 · Elements of Life

  1. Where the atoms in you come from27 ideas · 8 questions
  2. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  3. End-of-topic test: Elements of Life18 multiple choice · 2 free response

End of unit · Chemistry of Life

  1. Unit 1 test30 multiple choice · 3 free response

Unit 2 · Cells

Topic 2.3 · Plasma Membrane

  1. Two watery worlds and the film between them35 ideas · 11 questions
  2. A mosaic that flows20 ideas · 7 questions
  3. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  4. End-of-topic test: Plasma Membrane17 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.4 · Membrane Permeability

  1. What gets through the hydrophobic interior42 ideas · 16 questions

Topic 2.5 · Membrane Transport

  1. A drop of dye spreads42 ideas · 15 questions
  2. Millimoles: counting in thousandths10 ideas · 6 questions

Topic 2.6 · Facilitated Diffusion

  1. Doors for ions and sugars41 ideas · 26 questions
  2. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  3. End-of-topic test: Facilitated Diffusion16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.8 · Mechanisms of Transport

  1. Pumping uphill44 ideas · 18 questions
  2. Why the inside of a cell is negative31 ideas · 15 questions
  3. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  4. End-of-topic test: Mechanisms of Transport16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.5 · Membrane Transport (continued)

  1. Too big for any door27 ideas · 15 questions
  2. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  3. End-of-topic test: Membrane Transport17 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.7a · Tonicity and Osmoregulation

  1. Red cells in three beakers39 ideas · 23 questions

Topic 2.4 · Membrane Permeability (continued)

  1. Why celery goes limp37 ideas · 27 questions
  2. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  3. End-of-topic test: Membrane Permeability16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.7a · Tonicity and Osmoregulation (continued)

  1. Keeping water in balance25 ideas · 9 questions
  2. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  3. End-of-topic test: Tonicity and Osmoregulation19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.7b · Water Potential

  1. Water potential: a number for which way water goes26 ideas · 25 questions
  2. Solute potential from a concentration29 ideas · 27 questions
  3. The potato lab22 ideas · 19 questions
  4. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  5. End-of-topic test: Water Potential19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.2 · Cell Size

  1. Why a cell can't just grow bigger32 ideas · 26 questions
  2. Folded surfaces21 ideas · 11 questions
  3. Mouse and elephant: heat and fuel per gram15 ideas · 10 questions
  4. Spheres, rods and slabs12 ideas · 8 questions
  5. Which cell exchanges faster?8 ideas · 12 questions
  6. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  7. End-of-topic test: Cell Size17 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.1 · Cell Structure and Function

  1. Two kinds of cell50 ideas · 19 questions
  2. Where a cell makes the proteins it sends out11 ideas · 3 questions
  3. A folded network with ribosomes on it20 ideas · 10 questions
  4. Where the bubbles from the ER go37 ideas · 16 questions
  5. A sac that digests33 ideas · 13 questions
  6. Where lysosomes come from, and what else they take apart25 ideas · 12 questions
  7. The endomembrane system34 ideas · 16 questions
  8. The cell that ships protein26 ideas · 11 questions
  9. Where a cell gets its energy44 ideas · 20 questions
  10. The cell that catches light33 ideas · 16 questions
  11. Read a cell’s job from its parts19 ideas · 15 questions
  12. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  13. End-of-topic test: Cell Structure and Function18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.9 · Cell Compartmentalization

  1. Rooms with their own rules51 ideas · 16 questions
  2. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  3. End-of-topic test: Cell Compartmentalization16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 2.10 · Origins of Cell Compartmentalization

  1. A cell inside a cell22 ideas · 7 questions
  2. Five pieces of evidence that mitochondria came from bacteria36 ideas · 16 questions
  3. The chloroplast’s story28 ideas · 9 questions
  4. Two ways to organize a cell’s inside14 ideas · 3 questions
  5. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  6. End-of-topic test: Origins of Cell Compartmentalization16 multiple choice · 2 free response

End of unit · Cells

  1. Unit 2 test30 multiple choice · 3 free response

Unit 3 · Cellular Energetics

Topic 3.1 · Enzymes

  1. How fast: the rate of reaction35 ideas · 22 questions
  2. The energy hump51 ideas · 28 questions
  3. Used again and again70 ideas · 29 questions
  4. Why catalase ignores sugar46 ideas · 29 questions
  5. What happens in the pocket16 ideas · 19 questions
  6. What to change, measure and keep the same41 ideas · 25 questions
  7. Writing the prediction down35 ideas · 7 questions
  8. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  9. End-of-topic test: Enzymes19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 3.2a · Environmental Impacts

  1. Warm the tube29 ideas · 16 questions
  2. Past the optimum47 ideas · 14 questions
  3. pH: a scale for hydrogen ions25 ideas · 16 questions
  4. Too sour, too bitter36 ideas · 22 questions
  5. Sometimes the fold comes back52 ideas · 19 questions
  6. More substrate35 ideas · 17 questions
  7. More enzyme, more product?40 ideas · 17 questions
  8. Blocking the door23 ideas · 11 questions
  9. Bending the frame29 ideas · 15 questions
  10. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 3 free response
  11. End-of-topic test: Environmental Impacts19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 3.2b · Statistics: Mean, Standard Deviation and Error Bars

  1. One number for five tubes10 ideas · 6 questions
  2. How spread out: the standard deviation17 ideas · 16 questions
  3. How far off might the mean be?16 ideas · 14 questions
  4. Draw the error bar, read the caption20 ideas · 14 questions
  5. Do the bars overlap?14 ideas · 17 questions
  6. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  7. End-of-topic test: Statistics19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 3.3 · Cellular Energy

  1. Where ATP’s energy comes from44 ideas · 27 questions
  2. How ATP drives the cell’s work45 ideas · 27 questions
  3. Transformed, never made22 ideas · 17 questions
  4. Order needs energy32 ideas · 27 questions
  5. One big step or dozens of small ones58 ideas · 38 questions
  6. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  7. End-of-topic test: Cellular Energy19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 3.5 · Cellular Respiration

  1. Where sugar’s energy goes40 ideas · 20 questions
  2. Losing electrons, gaining electrons29 ideas · 23 questions
  3. The cell with no mitochondria30 ideas · 15 questions
  4. Every carbon breathed out47 ideas · 20 questions
  5. Downhill to oxygen25 ideas · 22 questions
  6. The one way back27 ideas · 17 questions
  7. Break the machine and see56 ideas · 22 questions
  8. When there is no oxygen28 ideas · 25 questions
  9. Two ATP or thirty28 ideas · 18 questions
  10. Graph the yeast25 ideas · 25 questions
  11. From the gas back to the pathway10 ideas · 4 questions
  12. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 3 free response
  13. End-of-topic test: Cellular Respiration19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 3.4 · Photosynthesis

  1. The reaction, written out37 ideas · 19 questions
  2. Where a tree’s mass comes from42 ideas · 14 questions
  3. What a leaf does with its sugar28 ideas · 12 questions
  4. A plant in a sealed jar, day and night26 ideas · 19 questions
  5. What a chloroplast is, and its six places35 ideas · 14 questions
  6. Two rooms, two jobs38 ideas · 21 questions
  7. Light and color27 ideas · 19 questions
  8. Why leaves are green36 ideas · 20 questions
  9. One electron’s journey49 ideas · 20 questions
  10. The same machine, powered by light28 ideas · 17 questions
  11. Building sugar in the stroma27 ideas · 16 questions
  12. Break one room and the other fails44 ideas · 19 questions
  13. One machine, three places42 ideas · 19 questions
  14. Shared pathways, shared ancestry33 ideas · 18 questions
  15. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  16. End-of-topic test: Photosynthesis19 multiple choice · 2 free response

End of unit · Cellular Energetics

  1. Unit 3 test30 multiple choice · 3 free response

Unit 4 · Cell Communication and Cell Cycle

Topic 4.1 · Cell Communication

  1. A molecule released into the blood38 ideas · 24 questions
  2. Predict from the receptor28 ideas · 14 questions
  3. Cells that touch18 ideas · 7 questions
  4. Nearby cells28 ideas · 15 questions
  5. Far away27 ideas · 17 questions
  6. Single cells counting their neighbors36 ideas · 14 questions
  7. Which way did the message travel?25 ideas · 13 questions
  8. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  9. End-of-topic test: Cell Communication19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 4.2 · Introduction to Signal Transduction

  1. The ligand fits48 ideas · 21 questions
  2. The message crosses, the molecule stays outside53 ideas · 24 questions
  3. Stopped at the surface, or straight through17 ideas · 13 questions
  4. The receptor goes to the DNA22 ideas · 19 questions
  5. A phosphate as a switch37 ideas · 34 questions
  6. A small molecule spreads the message41 ideas · 41 questions
  7. Switching the signal off23 ideas · 18 questions
  8. A door that opens19 ideas · 12 questions
  9. A door that hands the message on29 ideas · 23 questions
  10. Three kinds of response24 ideas · 16 questions
  11. Same signal, different cells35 ideas · 22 questions
  12. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  13. End-of-topic test: Introduction to Signal Transduction19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 4.3 · Signal Transduction Pathways

  1. Bananas in a paper bag31 ideas · 16 questions
  2. From a changed cell to a changed organism15 ideas · 13 questions
  3. A signal that says: dismantle13 ideas · 7 questions
  4. A changed gene, a changed shape31 ideas · 30 questions
  5. Find the break26 ideas · 26 questions
  6. Stuck on, switched off51 ideas · 33 questions
  7. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  8. End-of-topic test: Signal Transduction Pathways18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 4.4 · Feedback

  1. A set point, a stimulus, a response17 ideas · 20 questions
  2. The response cancels the stimulus26 ideas · 15 questions
  3. The same loop at three levels23 ideas · 18 questions
  4. Break one part of the loop15 ideas · 17 questions
  5. Contractions that get stronger38 ideas · 24 questions
  6. Predict what a disruption does20 ideas · 24 questions
  7. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  8. End-of-topic test: Feedback18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 4.5 · Cell Cycle

  1. New cells come from cells21 ideas · 23 questions
  2. What must be handed on16 ideas · 26 questions
  3. Copied and held together20 ideas · 28 questions
  4. The cycle in order17 ideas · 24 questions
  5. G1, S phase and G225 ideas · 21 questions
  6. Stepping out of the cycle15 ideas · 8 questions
  7. Building the machine: prophase and metaphase26 ideas · 24 questions
  8. Two cells from one: anaphase, telophase and cytokinesis31 ideas · 44 questions
  9. Name the stage28 ideas · 23 questions
  10. Why the two daughter cells match13 ideas · 15 questions
  11. From counts to time32 ideas · 27 questions
  12. Two tissues compared33 ideas · 31 questions
  13. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  14. End-of-topic test: Cell Cycle19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 4.6 · Regulation of Cell Cycle

  1. Division has to be switched on24 ideas · 14 questions
  2. Three checkpoints18 ideas · 20 questions
  3. What each checkpoint checks39 ideas · 19 questions
  4. Cyclins rise and fall; CDKs wait for them50 ideas · 20 questions
  5. Cancer: division without the controls25 ideas · 18 questions
  6. The other outcome19 ideas · 8 questions
  7. Break a control and predict37 ideas · 18 questions
  8. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  9. End-of-topic test: Regulation of Cell Cycle18 multiple choice · 2 free response

End of unit · Cell Communication and Cell Cycle

  1. Unit 4 test30 multiple choice · 3 free response

Unit 5 · Heredity

Topic 5.1 · Meiosis

  1. Twenty-three pairs25 ideas · 20 questions
  2. Two sets or one12 ideas · 12 questions
  3. Forty-six, not ninety-two16 ideas · 18 questions
  4. Which division halves the count?30 ideas · 20 questions
  5. The pairs find each other30 ideas · 21 questions
  6. Pulled apart, still doubled23 ideas · 14 questions
  7. Which stage of meiosis I?15 ideas · 7 questions
  8. The second division26 ideas · 13 questions
  9. Count the DNA, not the chromosomes21 ideas · 17 questions
  10. Meiosis I or meiosis II?17 ideas · 11 questions
  11. Count the chromosomes and chromatids12 ideas · 14 questions
  12. Two divisions, side by side26 ideas · 8 questions
  13. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  14. End-of-topic test: Meiosis19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 5.2 · Meiosis and Genetic Diversity

  1. Shuffled pairs30 ideas · 30 questions
  2. How many kinds of gamete?21 ideas · 12 questions
  3. Swapped segments33 ideas · 14 questions
  4. New combinations of old alleles33 ideas · 14 questions
  5. Which egg fuses with which sperm22 ideas · 22 questions
  6. A question you could test16 ideas · 12 questions
  7. When a pair fails to separate27 ideas · 27 questions
  8. Which division failed?12 ideas · 8 questions
  9. Three copies of one chromosome22 ideas · 24 questions
  10. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  11. End-of-topic test: Meiosis and Genetic Diversity18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 5.3 · Mendelian Genetics

  1. The white flower that came back25 ideas · 24 questions
  2. Two alleles, one on each homolog24 ideas · 21 questions
  3. Which allele shows20 ideas · 23 questions
  4. One allele per gamete35 ideas · 38 questions
  5. Why three to one, and why not exactly26 ideas · 31 questions
  6. Rules of chance21 ideas · 33 questions
  7. PP or Pp?17 ideas · 22 questions
  8. Which allele is dominant?10 ideas · 8 questions
  9. The twenty-two matching pairs and the one odd pair14 ideas · 14 questions
  10. Who is who on a family tree22 ideas · 21 questions
  11. Fix the genotypes; dominant or recessive?23 ideas · 33 questions
  12. The next child11 ideas · 13 questions
  13. Two genes at once24 ideas · 22 questions
  14. The sixteen-cell square16 ideas · 22 questions
  15. Multiply the one-gene answers10 ideas · 12 questions
  16. Does the data fit? Stating the null, finding chi-square22 ideas · 33 questions
  17. Does the data fit? Reading the verdict21 ideas · 28 questions
  18. When chi-square is the wrong tool18 ideas · 11 questions
  19. From the cross to the verdict9 ideas · 10 questions
  20. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  21. End-of-topic test: Mendelian Genetics19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 5.4 · Non-Mendelian Genetics

  1. Pink between red and white34 ideas · 24 questions
  2. Two pinks crossed12 ideas · 8 questions
  3. Three alleles, two per person17 ideas · 15 questions
  4. Whose child is this?17 ideas · 24 questions
  5. Genes that travel together45 ideas · 29 questions
  6. How far apart are the genes?24 ideas · 22 questions
  7. Putting genes in order21 ideas · 20 questions
  8. Linked, or just chance?15 ideas · 14 questions
  9. Where the X and the Y go14 ideas · 15 questions
  10. One X is enough21 ideas · 21 questions
  11. Predict an X-linked cross21 ideas · 23 questions
  12. Swap the parents16 ideas · 6 questions
  13. Birds, bees and the Y19 ideas · 19 questions
  14. One gene, many effects19 ideas · 7 questions
  15. Genes outside the nucleus16 ideas · 10 questions
  16. Traits that come only from the mother21 ideas · 16 questions
  17. Which pattern is this?31 ideas · 28 questions
  18. Which deviation is this? Decide from the counts17 ideas · 17 questions
  19. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  20. End-of-topic test: Non-Mendelian Genetics19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 5.5 · Environmental Effects on Phenotype

  1. Same plant, two pots53 ideas · 35 questions
  2. Six cases16 ideas · 10 questions
  3. How to test one29 ideas · 22 questions
  4. Practice questions9 multiple choice · 2 free response
  5. End-of-topic test: Environmental Effects on Phenotype16 multiple choice · 2 free response

End of unit · Heredity

  1. Unit 5 test30 multiple choice · 3 free response

Unit 6 · Gene Expression and Regulation

Topic 6.1 · DNA and RNA Structure

  1. Where the instructions are kept41 ideas · 31 questions
  2. Extra circles31 ideas · 11 questions
  3. Instructions written in RNA45 ideas · 18 questions
  4. Two rings with one: the pairing rules55 ideas · 41 questions
  5. Use the rules40 ideas · 36 questions
  6. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  7. End-of-topic test: DNA and RNA Structure17 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 6.2 · DNA Replication

  1. Half old, half new39 ideas · 29 questions
  2. The bands in the tube59 ideas · 21 questions
  3. The fork opens59 ideas · 32 questions
  4. Only at the 3′ end39 ideas · 28 questions
  5. One strand in pieces52 ideas · 30 questions
  6. The whole fork, and what breaks it50 ideas · 28 questions
  7. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  8. End-of-topic test: DNA Replication18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 6.3 · Transcription and RNA Processing

  1. A message leaves the nucleus28 ideas · 29 questions
  2. Three RNAs, three jobs47 ideas · 36 questions
  3. One strand is read56 ideas · 42 questions
  4. Write the transcript36 ideas · 25 questions
  5. A cap and a tail42 ideas · 24 questions
  6. Where did 1,500 nucleotides go?56 ideas · 37 questions
  7. From gene to mature message38 ideas · 29 questions
  8. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  9. End-of-topic test: Transcription and RNA Processing17 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 6.4 · Translation

  1. Where proteins are built40 ideas · 20 questions
  2. Three letters, one amino acid51 ideas · 35 questions
  3. Spare codons30 ideas · 11 questions
  4. The same code everywhere27 ideas · 7 questions
  5. Start, build, stop53 ideas · 42 questions
  6. Translate it50 ideas · 36 questions
  7. Change one thing47 ideas · 11 questions
  8. From gene to trait, link by link39 ideas · 14 questions
  9. Backwards: RNA to DNA67 ideas · 42 questions
  10. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  11. End-of-topic test: Translation18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 6.5 · Regulation of Gene Expression

  1. Not every gene, not all the time46 ideas · 30 questions
  2. Always on, or on demand31 ideas · 15 questions
  3. Switching on the lactose genes50 ideas · 31 questions
  4. Switching off the tryptophan genes61 ideas · 31 questions
  5. Two sugars at once42 ideas · 13 questions
  6. Tags on the DNA56 ideas · 36 questions
  7. One genome, many cell types45 ideas · 31 questions
  8. Genes that answer the same call44 ideas · 16 questions
  9. Make the claim30 ideas · 16 questions
  10. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  11. End-of-topic test: Regulation of Gene Expression18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 6.6 · Gene Expression and Cell Specialization

  1. Where the switch sits54 ideas · 36 questions
  2. Reporter constructs53 ideas · 20 questions
  3. Blocking the way72 ideas · 27 questions
  4. Different products, different jobs50 ideas · 10 questions
  5. Small RNAs that silence43 ideas · 21 questions
  6. Knock a gene down and read what it did53 ideas · 21 questions
  7. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  8. End-of-topic test: Gene Expression and Cell Specialization16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 6.7 · Mutations

  1. One letter changed67 ideas · 37 questions
  2. Same amino acid, or a stop55 ideas · 29 questions
  3. Amount, not kind54 ideas · 21 questions
  4. Predict the phenotype, link by link65 ideas · 25 questions
  5. Good, bad or neither88 ideas · 38 questions
  6. Where mutations come from83 ideas · 31 questions
  7. A whole chromosome too many76 ideas · 30 questions
  8. Pieces moved56 ideas · 28 questions
  9. Genes that move sideways63 ideas · 38 questions
  10. Jumping genes, and which route was it?54 ideas · 30 questions
  11. Viruses swap genes, and variation is old59 ideas · 23 questions
  12. From a changed sequence to a trait selection can act on36 ideas · 15 questions
  13. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  14. End-of-topic test: Mutations19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 6.8 · Biotechnology

  1. Sorting DNA by size71 ideas · 40 questions
  2. Predict the pattern from the cut42 ideas · 16 questions
  3. Millions of copies from one86 ideas · 40 questions
  4. Putting a gene into a bacterium76 ideas · 34 questions
  5. Reading the sequence, and what it is for67 ideas · 33 questions
  6. From the band or the plate to the biology it shows47 ideas · 18 questions
  7. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  8. End-of-topic test: Biotechnology16 multiple choice · 2 free response

End of unit · Gene Expression and Regulation

  1. Unit 6 test30 multiple choice · 3 free response

Unit 7 · Natural Selection

Topic 7.1 · Introduction to Natural Selection

  1. One field of dandelions43 ideas · 24 questions
  2. Why the plants differ37 ideas · 31 questions
  3. More seeds than space28 ideas · 17 questions
  4. We call it natural selection32 ideas · 28 questions
  5. Populations evolve, individuals do not33 ideas · 23 questions
  6. A wet year and a dry year35 ideas · 25 questions
  7. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  8. End-of-topic test: Introduction to Natural Selection16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.2 · Natural Selection

  1. What selection can see34 ideas · 24 questions
  2. Good here, bad there39 ideas · 27 questions
  3. Resistance was already there39 ideas · 25 questions
  4. Explain the numbers18 ideas · 16 questions
  5. Three ways a trait can move32 ideas · 13 questions
  6. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  7. End-of-topic test: Natural Selection16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.3 · Artificial Selection

  1. When people choose the parents50 ideas · 28 questions
  2. Draw the heights31 ideas · 26 questions
  3. Before and after, in one picture48 ideas · 39 questions
  4. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  5. End-of-topic test: Artificial Selection18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.4 · Population Genetics

  1. Counting alleles, not rabbits33 ideas · 37 questions
  2. Has it evolved, and was it luck?45 ideas · 27 questions
  3. New alleles, and lucky ones49 ideas · 30 questions
  4. A crash, or a small group leaving59 ideas · 34 questions
  5. Alleles that travel54 ideas · 31 questions
  6. Which force was it?32 ideas · 23 questions
  7. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  8. End-of-topic test: Population Genetics18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.5 · Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium

  1. Two shares of two different things32 ideas · 24 questions
  2. p, q and two draws from the pool44 ideas · 30 questions
  3. Start from the ones you can be sure of26 ideas · 7 questions
  4. Five things that must be true, and never are53 ideas · 29 questions
  5. Read the frequency over time58 ideas · 31 questions
  6. How big was the change?23 ideas · 8 questions
  7. Does the census fit?42 ideas · 22 questions
  8. From the census to the verdict49 ideas · 16 questions
  9. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  10. End-of-topic test: Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.6 · Evidence of Evolution

  1. Five kinds of evidence, and the oldest kind53 ideas · 33 questions
  2. Decay is a clock48 ideas · 30 questions
  3. Where they live, and what came before37 ideas · 27 questions
  4. Same bones, look-alikes, leftovers60 ideas · 36 questions
  5. Count the differences46 ideas · 25 questions
  6. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  7. End-of-topic test: Evidence of Evolution18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.7 · Common Ancestry

  1. One ancestor for every eukaryote42 ideas · 20 questions
  2. Two more shared features, and a test53 ideas · 29 questions
  3. Practice questions8 multiple choice · 2 free response
  4. End-of-topic test: Common Ancestry16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.8 · Continuing Evolution

  1. Still happening39 ideas · 23 questions
  2. Resistance: selection we can watch58 ideas · 22 questions
  3. The next disease37 ideas · 17 questions
  4. Counts that climb by tens37 ideas · 18 questions
  5. Plot the counts26 ideas · 13 questions
  6. What was wrong with the study, and what to do next51 ideas · 19 questions
  7. Practice questions8 multiple choice · 2 free response
  8. End-of-topic test: Continuing Evolution16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.9 · Phylogeny

  1. Reading a tree74 ideas · 43 questions
  2. Cladogram or phylogenetic tree?36 ideas · 11 questions
  3. What the branches are built from66 ideas · 32 questions
  4. Build the cladogram49 ideas · 17 questions
  5. Build from sequences38 ideas · 18 questions
  6. Read the clock49 ideas · 25 questions
  7. When the trees disagree96 ideas · 19 questions
  8. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  9. End-of-topic test: Phylogeny19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.10 · Speciation

  1. What makes two species75 ideas · 31 questions
  2. Before the zygote, after the zygote76 ideas · 41 questions
  3. Apart: a barrier divides the sea41 ideas · 8 questions
  4. Together: two species in one lake103 ideas · 28 questions
  5. Predict the split78 ideas · 18 questions
  6. Many from one86 ideas · 28 questions
  7. Alike from many44 ideas · 12 questions
  8. Slow and steady, or long stillness and a burst60 ideas · 19 questions
  9. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  10. End-of-topic test: Speciation17 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.11 · Variations in Populations

  1. Why a mixed population survives a bad year60 ideas · 32 questions
  2. One clone, one blight38 ideas · 8 questions
  3. Useless now, needed later32 ideas · 12 questions
  4. Justify the claim28 ideas · 13 questions
  5. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  6. End-of-topic test: Variations in Populations16 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 7.12 · Origins of Life on Earth

  1. What the oldest rocks say56 ideas · 26 questions
  2. Predict the flask48 ideas · 17 questions
  3. A molecule that does both jobs65 ideas · 31 questions
  4. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  5. End-of-topic test: Origins of Life on Earth16 multiple choice · 2 free response

End of unit · Natural Selection

  1. Unit 7 test30 multiple choice · 3 free response

Unit 8 · Ecology

Topic 8.1 · Responses to the Environment

  1. The pill bug and the damp side39 ideas · 31 questions
  2. A change inside, a change outside, and why the answer helps37 ideas · 18 questions
  3. Turning toward, speeding up: taxis, kinesis and the plant that leans43 ideas · 33 questions
  4. Testing the pill bug41 ideas · 23 questions
  5. Nine to one, or chance?31 ideas · 21 questions
  6. A call in the grass33 ideas · 26 questions
  7. What the signal is for32 ideas · 18 questions
  8. Who leaves offspring36 ideas · 14 questions
  9. Born knowing it, or learned it39 ideas · 25 questions
  10. Safety in numbers60 ideas · 31 questions
  11. A change in the environment, a change in behavior, a change in the population23 ideas · 20 questions
  12. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  13. End-of-topic test: Responses to the Environment17 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 8.2 · Energy Flow Through Ecosystems

  1. What the energy is used for36 ideas · 20 questions
  2. Gain or loss: the energy budget25 ideas · 13 questions
  3. Warm from inside, warm from outside49 ideas · 28 questions
  4. Breeding when the energy is there29 ideas · 13 questions
  5. From a pond to a biome, and the two things that pass through it43 ideas · 22 questions
  6. Boxes and arrows: how every cycle is drawn44 ideas · 34 questions
  7. Where the rain came from29 ideas · 26 questions
  8. Where your carbon has been58 ideas · 25 questions
  9. Surrounded by nitrogen, and unable to use it38 ideas · 27 questions
  10. Four more steps, by what goes in and what comes out43 ideas · 19 questions
  11. The cycle that starts in rock57 ideas · 29 questions
  12. Who makes the food56 ideas · 38 questions
  13. Net primary productivity23 ideas · 13 questions
  14. Who eats the food52 ideas · 27 questions
  15. Levels, chains and the direction of the arrow47 ideas · 26 questions
  16. Build the web52 ideas · 26 questions
  17. Ten percent43 ideas · 35 questions
  18. Measuring the loss, and why the chain stops30 ideas · 17 questions
  19. Less sun, fewer hawks, and why maize beats beef36 ideas · 15 questions
  20. Explain the result by following the energy41 ideas · 7 questions
  21. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  22. End-of-topic test: Energy Flow Through Ecosystems19 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 8.3 · Population Ecology

  1. Counting frogs45 ideas · 20 questions
  2. More births, more deaths32 ideas · 21 questions
  3. The equation: births minus deaths31 ideas · 20 questions
  4. How many next year?21 ideas · 11 questions
  5. Each one makes more36 ideas · 26 questions
  6. The equation for unchecked growth36 ideas · 32 questions
  7. The J and the straight line53 ideas · 33 questions
  8. Draw the growth graph32 ideas · 15 questions
  9. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  10. End-of-topic test: Population Ecology18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 8.4 · Effect of Density on Populations

  1. How crowded?35 ideas · 17 questions
  2. The curve that levels off55 ideas · 23 questions
  3. Limits that bite harder in a crowd61 ideas · 30 questions
  4. The braking term54 ideas · 16 questions
  5. Calculate the rate, brake on38 ideas · 22 questions
  6. Past K, and a moving K51 ideas · 10 questions
  7. Percent change40 ideas · 13 questions
  8. A limit changes, the population answers50 ideas · 8 questions
  9. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  10. End-of-topic test: Effect of Density on Populations18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 8.5 · Community Ecology

  1. Who lives here, and how many of each55 ideas · 25 questions
  2. Draw the shares as a pie35 ideas · 13 questions
  3. One number for diversity: what the formula does54 ideas · 19 questions
  4. Calculate the index, then say what it means43 ideas · 23 questions
  5. Plus, minus, zero65 ideas · 24 questions
  6. One niche, two species66 ideas · 23 questions
  7. Lynx and hare46 ideas · 20 questions
  8. Draw the two-axis graph41 ideas · 13 questions
  9. When the wolves came back55 ideas · 19 questions
  10. Do the two plots really differ?33 ideas · 12 questions
  11. What the interaction does to the counts39 ideas · 12 questions
  12. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  13. End-of-topic test: Community Ecology17 multiple choice · 3 free response

Topic 8.6 · Biodiversity

  1. Bouncing back50 ideas · 20 questions
  2. A field of one crop41 ideas · 7 questions
  3. The starfish on the rock56 ideas · 16 questions
  4. The other supports: producers, light, water, pollinators42 ideas · 15 questions
  5. Add or remove one part, then wait49 ideas · 13 questions
  6. Practice questions10 multiple choice · 2 free response
  7. End-of-topic test: Biodiversity18 multiple choice · 2 free response

Topic 8.7 · Disruptions to Ecosystems

  1. Fit for here, not for there52 ideas · 21 questions
  2. Why the sickle-cell allele stays60 ideas · 22 questions
  3. The mutation was already there35 ideas · 8 questions
  4. Kudzu and the mussel78 ideas · 39 questions
  5. More toxin at every level56 ideas · 28 questions
  6. Too much of a good thing58 ideas · 17 questions
  7. A dam, a river and the bears upstream40 ideas · 8 questions
  8. Volcanoes, storms and drifting continents64 ideas · 27 questions
  9. A warming world moves the map71 ideas · 16 questions
  10. Read a box-and-whisker plot43 ideas · 13 questions
  11. A disruption, a prediction, a verdict56 ideas · 25 questions
  12. Practice questions8 multiple choice · 2 free response
  13. End-of-topic test: Disruptions to Ecosystems19 multiple choice · 2 free response

End of unit · Ecology

  1. Unit 8 test30 multiple choice · 3 free response