AP BiLogy Assignments
Second Semester
last updated July 2008
Lab
Week of January 5 assignments:
Happy New Year!!!!
Read chapters 22 & 23; Lecture on Darwinism
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
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
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
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 !
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!
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
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
Week of February 23 assignments:
Read chapters 36; Lecture: Angiosperms
Lab: Transpiration
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
Tuesday – Wednesday — 11th Grade Literarcy Test!
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
End of Third Nine Weeks
Week of March 16 assignments:
Read chapter 33 ; Lecture: Invertebrates & introduction to animals
Lab: Crayfish Dissection
Spring Break March 23 – 27!
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
Week of April 6 assignments:
Read chapter 40 & 41; Lecture: Vertebrates
UNIT 9B TEST on vertebrates ( chapter 35)
Lab: Dissect Crayfish
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
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
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
Week of May 4 assignments:
Lecture: Ecology
UNIT 11 TEST on Ecology ! (chapters 50-55)
Week of May 11 assignments: AP Exam!!!
Fetal Pig Dissection
Week of May 18 assignments: 
Complete Fetal Pig Dissection
Week of May 25 assignments: Monday, MEMORIAL DAY!
Semester test review
FINAL EXAMS ! FINAL EXAMS! FINAL EXAMS!