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Flashcards for AP Biology, split into the eight units of the Course and Exam Description (effective fall 2025, for exams in 2027) and then by the CED's numbered topics in order. Covers the equations on the AP Biology equations and formulas sheet, worked with your own numbers. Delete or suspend any subdeck your course leaves out once the deck is yours.

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What is inside (68 subdecks)

  • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life122 cards
    • 1.1 Structure of Water and Hydrogen Bonding19 cards
    • 1.2 Elements of Life14 cards
    • 1.3 Introduction to Biological Macromolecules14 cards
    • 1.4 Carbohydrates16 cards
    • 1.5 Lipids16 cards
    • 1.6 Nucleic Acids21 cards
    • 1.7 Proteins22 cards
  • Unit 2: Cells140 cards
    • 2.1 Cell Structure and Function32 cards
    • 2.2 Cell Size22 cards
    • 2.3 Plasma Membrane16 cards
    • 2.4 Membrane Permeability10 cards
    • 2.5 Membrane Transport10 cards
    • 2.6 Facilitated Diffusion9 cards
    • 2.7 Tonicity and Osmoregulation19 cards
    • 2.8 Mechanisms of Transport9 cards
    • 2.9 Cell Compartmentalization5 cards
    • 2.10 Origins of Cell Compartmentalization8 cards
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics134 cards
    • 3.1 Enzymes16 cards
    • 3.2 Environmental Impacts on Enzyme Function30 cards
    • 3.3 Cellular Energy21 cards
    • 3.4 Photosynthesis31 cards
    • 3.5 Cellular Respiration36 cards
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle107 cards
    • 4.1 Cell Communication18 cards
    • 4.2 Introduction to Signal Transduction29 cards
    • 4.3 Signal Transduction Pathways11 cards
    • 4.4 Feedback11 cards
    • 4.5 Cell Cycle29 cards
    • 4.6 Regulation of Cell Cycle9 cards
  • Unit 5: Heredity106 cards
    • 5.1 Meiosis23 cards
    • 5.2 Meiosis and Genetic Diversity9 cards
    • 5.3 Mendelian Genetics44 cards
    • 5.4 Non-Mendelian Genetics20 cards
    • 5.5 Environmental Effects on Phenotype10 cards
  • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation156 cards
    • 6.1 DNA and RNA Structure14 cards
    • 6.2 DNA Replication16 cards
    • 6.3 Transcription and RNA Processing23 cards
    • 6.4 Translation21 cards
    • 6.5 Regulation of Gene Expression18 cards
    • 6.6 Gene Expression and Cell Specialization7 cards
    • 6.7 Mutations33 cards
    • 6.8 Biotechnology24 cards
  • Unit 7: Natural Selection141 cards
    • 7.1 Introduction to Natural Selection8 cards
    • 7.2 Natural Selection16 cards
    • 7.3 Artificial Selection5 cards
    • 7.4 Population Genetics17 cards
    • 7.5 Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium19 cards
    • 7.6 Evidence of Evolution11 cards
    • 7.7 Common Ancestry4 cards
    • 7.8 Continuing Evolution4 cards
    • 7.9 Phylogeny13 cards
    • 7.10 Speciation27 cards
    • 7.11 Variations in Populations9 cards
    • 7.12 Origins of Life on Earth8 cards
  • Unit 8: Ecology137 cards
    • 8.1 Responses to the Environment25 cards
    • 8.2 Energy Flow Through Ecosystems38 cards
    • 8.3 Population Ecology12 cards
    • 8.4 Effect of Density on Populations13 cards
    • 8.5 Community Ecology18 cards
    • 8.6 Biodiversity10 cards
    • 8.7 Disruptions in Ecosystems21 cards

Some of its cards

  • What are monosaccharides?
    Simple sugars that are the monomers for polysaccharides
  • What can genetic engineering techniques be used to do?
    Analyse and manipulate DNA and RNA
  • What do signal transduction pathways link?
    Signal reception with a cellular response
  • What do plasma membranes separate?
    The internal environment of the cell from the external environment
  • What do all living systems require a continual input of?
    Energy
  • What do phylogenetic trees and cladograms show?
    Hypothetical evolutionary relationships among lineages that can be tested
  • What are genes located on the same chromosome referred to as?
    Genetically linked
  • What is an adaptation?
    A genetic variation, favoured by selection, that manifests as a trait providing an advantage to an organism in a particular environment
  • When does speciation occur?
    When two populations become reproductively isolated from each other
  • What do populations comprise?
    Individual organisms of the same species that interact with one another and with the environment

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