AP Biology Summer Assignment Welcome to AP Biology! What to do before the first day of school. (Highly suggested but not mandatory)

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1 AP Biology Summer Assignment Welcome to AP Biology! What to do before the first day of school. (Highly suggested but not mandatory) Purchase a copy of 5 Steps to a 5 by Mark Anestis (Amazon or your local book store). It must be 2013 or newer because the course was redesigned last year. AP Biology was designed by a select group of college professors and high school teachers to be the equivalent to an introductory college biology course. Visit the College Board site to explore what an AP Biology Course is like. &bannerid=exploreap1 Your first assignment is to complete a reading assignment. This assignment will help to acquaint you with the Four Big Ideas that we will cover this year. We have only one semester to cover a two semester college course. Because of this, we will be working at an accelerated pace. In order to get a jump on this, you will be required to complete a review of biological chemistry. This is your second assignment. You will use the following website to watch three videos and complete the worksheets. These sheets will be due on the first day of class and you can expect a quiz on this material during the first week.

2 AP Biology Summer Assignment Summer is a great time for exploring the great outdoors and becoming one with nature but it is also a time for kicking back, relaxing, and catching up on a little reading. Luckily, the book is awesome! It is called Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem. The AP Biology curriculum has gone through a complete overhaul. Starting in , the course is now focused around 4 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. Within each Big Idea are several Enduring Understandings which are delineated further into numerous Essential Knowledge concepts. The new organization of the curriculum provides students explicit benchmarks in the understanding of biology as a systematic science. The summer book addresses the 4 Big Ideas in a personal and intriguing nonfiction platform. It will get you excited about biology! Directions: 1. Choose passages from the book that demonstrate TWO (2) different Enduring Understandings per Big Idea. Since there are 4 Big Ideas, you must choose 8 different passages (2 per Big Idea) for 8 different Enduring Understandings. Please see the charts below for an explanation of the 4 Big Ideas, 17 Enduring Understandings, and 55 Essential Knowledges ( pgs 6-9). 2. Explain how each passage relates to a specific Enduring Understanding and Big Idea. Use specific Essential Knowledge statements for support. You cannot use the same passage for a different Big Idea. 3. Upon return to school you will complete an in class essay using your book and the work completed in this packet. Pages 2-5 will also be collected for a grade.

3 Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. Passage 1: Enduring Understanding (Number and Letter): Explanation: Passage 2: Enduring Understanding (Number and Letter): Explanation:

4 Big Idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. Passage 1: Enduring Understanding (Number and Letter): Explanation: Passage 2: Enduring Understanding (Number and Letter): Explanation:

5 Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes. Passage 1: Enduring Understanding (Number and Letter): Explanation: Passage 2: Enduring Understanding (Number and Letter): Explanation:

6 Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties. Passage 1: Enduring Understanding (Number and Letter): Explanation: Passage 2: Enduring Understanding (Number and Letter): Explanation:

11 Bozeman Biology Biological Molecules Video 1. Where can we find DNA? 2. Four categories of four macromolecules are i. ii. iii. iv. 3. What is a monomer? _ 4. What is unique about lipids? _ 5. What are the main functions of lipids? 6. Lipids are polar. T/F 7. Nucleic acid monomers are and are made up of. 8. Functions of nucleic acids are- 9. Protein monomers are 10. What differentiates one amino acid from another? 11. Carbohydrate monomers are 12. What helps make different types of carbohydrates? 13. What are generic functions of each?

12 14. What is the significance of directionality of the monomers in a polymer? 15. The process of putting monomers together is called 16. Draw an example of this process 17. What is lost during the process? 18. What kind of bond is formed? Is it a strong or weak bond? 19. Can this process be used in the created of other polymers? 20. How can we break these apart? 21. What is the name of the process? Nucleic Acids: 22. The two different types of nucleic acids are: i. ii. 23. What is a nucleotide? What are the three parts of a nucleotide? i. ii. iii.

13 24. What are the differences between a DNA nucleotide and an RNA nucleotide? 25. How are these nucleotides arranged in the DNA/RNA strand? 26. What are the four nucleotides in DNA? i. ii. iii. iv. 27. What are the four nucleotides in RNA? i. ii. iii. iv. 28. Draw a diagram to demonstrate how the directionality of the DNA/RNA molecule is determined. 29. What does the 3 and 5 stand for? 30. What makes DNA anti-parallel? Proteins: 31. Proteins monomer is 32. How many amino acids are there and how do we get them? 33. Draw a basic amino acid.

14 34. What part of the amino acid makes it different? Label it in your diagram above. 35. What gives the structure to proteins? 36. What is the directionality of a protein? 37. What is the significance of the directionality of proteins? Lipids: 38. Lipids have different types a. b. c. d. 39. What are the common factors between the different lipids? 40. What is significant about hydrocarbons found in lipids? 41. What is unique about phospholipids? 42. What does amphipathic mean? 43. What is the difference between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids? 44. Why do unsat fats bend?

15 45. Why is margarine solid? 46. Is butter saturated or unsaturated? Solid or liquid? Carbohydrates: 47. Carbohydrates monomers? 48. What are the two categories of carbohydrates? 49. What are the different types of glucose? 50. What are the differences between amylose and glycogen?

16 Bozeman Biology The Molecules of Life Video 1. What are the building blocks of proteins and carbohydrates? 2. What is the building block of life and why? 3. How many valence electrons does carbon have? 4. What are functional groups? 5. Draw out each functional group he talks about and list their functions and properties: i. Carboxyl ii. Carbonyl iii. Methyl iv. Amino v. Phosphate

17 vi. Hydroxyl 6. Molecules of life are that are made up of 7. Dehydration synthesis is 8. The name of the bond between two amino acids is 9. What is hydrolysis? 10. The four major macromolecules are:,,, and. 11. Nucleic acids are and 12. The building blocks of nucleic acids are which are joined to each other by. 13. Each nucleotide is made up of,, and. 14. Describe and draw the structure of an amino acid. 15. How many essential amino acids are there? 16. What are the common parts of an amino acid? i. ii. iii. iv. 17. What is most important level of structure of a protein in terms of the protein s function?

18 18. What are some of the steps of protein folding? 19. Lipids are also called 20. Examples of lipids are 21. What is the difference between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids? 22. Where do you find each? 23. What are the three types of carbohydrates? i. ii. iii. 24. How are complex carbohydrates broken down?

19 Bozeman Biology Water: A Polar Molecule 1. Wherever we find water we find. 2. Why is oxygen unique? 3. The most electronegative element in the periodic table is 4. The proof of this is the fact that it can even What does electronegative mean? What kind of bond is found between oxygen and hydrogen in water? Are the electrons shared equally between oxygen and hydrogen? 5. What happens as a result of that? 6. The most important bond in water is a 7. The bond between hydrogen and oxygen in a water molecule is 8. What happens when Mr.Anderson tries to put two hydrogens from different molecules together? What happens when Mr.Anderson tries to put a hydrogen and oxygen together? What is that attraction called? Is it a strong bond? 9. The property of water sticking to other water molecules is called 10. Where else do we see hydrogen bonds in living systems? 11. What is the main component of a fat molecule?

20 12. What is the electronegativity of carbon like? 13. What kind of molecule is a fat? 14. What does like dissolves like mean? 15. List the five properties of water that are important: a. b. c. d. e. 16. High specific heat is defined as 17. Why is it easier to heat up alcohol? 18. Describe the real world example 19. Why is water a good solvent? 20. What is a solvent? 21. Which end of the water molecules stick to the chloride ions? 22. Why? 23. What is cohesion? 24. Why does a paper clip float on water? 25. What is capillary action? 26.What is the biological significance of this?

21 27. What are the microscopic tubes that transport water in a plant called? 28. What happens as water becomes colder? 29. What s the difference between the density of water and that of ice? 30. What accounts for the beautiful structures seen in snowflakes?

AP Biology Summer Assignment

AP Biology Summer Assignment Welcome to AP Biology! The two main goals of AP Biology are to help you develop a conceptual framework for modern biology and to gain a deeper appreciation of science as a