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AP Biology
Chapter 1 Guided Reading Assignment
Name _________________________
1. What are the 5 common themes of biology?
Theme: Organization
2. What are the levels of biological organization? Briefly describe each level.
3. What are emergent properties? How do they pertain to the levels of organization you just
listed?
4. How are structure and function related in biological study?
5. What are the two categories of cells? Explain how they are different.
Theme: Information
6. What is the relationship between DNA, genes, and gene expression?
Theme: Energy and Matter
7. How does energy “flow” through an ecosystem?
8. How do chemicals “cycle”? What is a significant different between energy flow and chemical
cycles?
Theme: Interactions
9. Do all organism really need to interact within their ecosystems? Explain your answer. Include
an example.
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Core Theme: Evolution
10. Why is Evolution the “Core Theme”?
11. What are the 3 domains of life? Briefly describe each one.
12. What is the mechanism of natural selection?
13. How is scientific inquiry a combination of observations, data, inductive reasoning, hypothesis,
and deductive reasoning?
14. What is a controlled experiment? How does it test only a single variable? Use the investigation
of coat color in mouse populations as an example. Identify the independent and dependent
variables in the mouse experiment.
15. How is a scientific theory different from our everyday use of the term “theory”?
Video Review
Bozeman Science: (you can also do a video search for “Bozeman Science Biology”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibhnP5suqK8
1. What are the 4 Big Ideas of biology?
2. What was Darwin’s special contribution to the idea of Evolution? Give an example.
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3. Diagram the flow of free energy and label each step.
4. What is homeostasis?
5. What is the molecule of information?
6. Explain the central dogma of life.
7. What is the hierarchy of life?
Bozeman Science: (you can also do a video search for “Bozeman Science Scientific Method”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKGtkzgKfkc&index=8&list=PLhWQfyIjGDq5guhBNmYeYjt3UEm
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*The history lesson is not important for this course.
1. What is the purpose of the scientific method?
2. What is the first step in the scientific method?
3. How does a hypothesis address the first step?
4. The experiment is broken into identifiable variables. What are they? Define each one.
5. Design a simple experiment of your own and identify the variables using the variables listed in
your previous answer.
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6. What is the difference between the control group and experimental group? Why is the control
group ESSENTIAL?
7. When graphing your data, which axis is for the independent variable? Which axis is for the
dependent variable?
8. Is re-testability required for the scientific method? Explain your answer.
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