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AP ® BIOLOGY About the Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) ® The Advanced Placement Program enables willing and academically prepared students to pursue college-level studies — with the opportunity to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both — while still in high school. AP Exams are given each year in May. Students who earn a qualifying score on an AP Exam are typically eligible to receive college credit and/or placement into advanced courses in college. Every aspect of AP course and exam development is the result of collaboration between AP teachers and college faculty. They work together to develop AP courses and exams, set scoring standards, and score the exams. College faculty review every AP teacher’s course syllabus. AP Biology Course Overview Science Practices Students establish lines of evidence and use them to develop and AP Biology is an introductory college-level biology course. Students reine testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena. cultivate their understanding of biology through inquiry-based Focusing on these disciplinary practices enables teachers to use investigations as they explore the following topics: evolution, cellular the principles of scientiic inquiry to promote a more engaging and processes — energy and communication, genetics, information rigorous experience for AP Biology students. Such practices require transfer, ecology, and interactions. that students: • Use representations and models to communicate scientiic LABORATORY REQUIREMENT phenomena and solve scientiic problem