Big Ideas

Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.

Big Idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis.

Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes.

Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties.

Notes:

This document represents an attempt to make new objectives from the frameworks of the revised AP Biology curriculum.
The links below are to a series of “units” that might be taught during the course but can be reorganized
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