AP Bio Video Pathway

Welcome to the AP Bio Video Pathway, our course for individual users. In each of the tutorials below you’ll watch one or more videos, read a summary, and complete flashcards and quizzes. The goal is to give you the content mastery to put you on the road to an “A” in your class and a 4 or a 5 on the AP Bio exam.

Table of Contents

Unit 1: Molecules of Life (Under Development)

  1. Properties of Water and Hydrogen Bonding
  2. Biochemistry Basics for AP Bio (monomers v. polymers, hydroysis v. dehydration synthesis, etc.)
  3. Carbohydrates and Lipids
  4. Proteins
  5. Nucleic Acids

Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function (Under Development)

  1. Introduction to Cells: Basic Features, Prokaryotic v. Eukaryotic, etc.
  2. Cell Size and Surface Area to Volume Relationships
  3. Cellular Compartmentalization and Endosymbiosis
  4. Eukaryotic Cell Parts and Functions
  5. Cell Membrane Structure
  6. Membrane Transport
  7. Osmosis and Water Potential

Unit 3: Cellular Energetics

  1. Enzymes and Enzyme Regulation

  2. Cell Energy, Basic Concepts

  3. Cellular Respiration Overview

  4. Glycolysis, the Link Reaction, and the Krebs Cycle

  5. The Electron Transport Chain and Chemiosmosis

  6. Anaerobic Respiration

  7. Photosynthesis: The Big Picture

  8. Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions

  9. Photosynthesis: The Calvin Cycle

Unit 4: Cell Communication, Feedback and Homeostasis, the Cell Cycle

  1. Cell Signaling: the Big Picture and G Protein Coupled Receptors

  2. Feedback and Homeostasis

  3. The Cell Cycle and Mitosis

  4. Cell Cycle Regulation and Cancer

Unit 5: Heredity

  1. Meiosis: Key Concepts

  2. How Meiosis Creates Variation

  3. Meiosis, Step-by-Step

  4. Sex Determination

  5. Nondisjunction

  6. Mendelian Genetics: Key Concepts

  7. Dihybrid Crosses

  8. Linked Genes and Recombination

  9. Sex Linked Genes

  10. Mitochondrial Inheritance, Incomplete Dominance, and Environment/Phenotype Interactions

Unit 6: Gene Expression

  1. DNA and RNA

  2. DNA Replication

  3. Transcription

  4. The Genetic Code and Protein Synthesis

  5. Operons/Bacterial Gene Regulation

  6. Eukaryotic Gene Regulation

  7. Mutations

  8. Horizontal Gene Transfer

  9. Biotechnology/Genetic Engineering

Unit 7: Evolution

  1. Natural, Artificial, and Sexual Selection

  2. Population Genetics

  3. Evidence for Evolution

  4. Species and Speciation

  5. Extinction

  6. Phylogeny

  7. Origin of Life

Unit 8: Ecology

  1. Under development