AP Biology is the equivalent of a freshman-level collegiate general biology course. The course is organized based on four big ideas.
Big Idea I: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.
Big Idea II: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis.
Big Idea III: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes.
Big idea IV: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties.
This course will cover many aspects of biology, including biochemstry, cell, microbiology, physiology, heredity, evolution and ecology.