Advanced P, biology--Cambell Reece/Cliffs--some redundant material?

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<p>Hey, I wanted to ask a few questions regarding those who got a 5 on the Bio exam:</p>

<p>I wanted to ask about several topics and thier importance on the AP biology Exam. I know CLIFFS is the best review guide and is a very good book to accoompany Campbell Reece but it also does not have several topics and I wanted to know whether they would appear on the AP exam..:</p>

<p>From CELL BIOLOGY: </p>

<p>1.) Will Cell communication- (i.e.- signal transduction, G protein, protein kinase, and cAMP secondary messegners) be asked?</p>

<p>For GENETICS:</p>

<p>1.) Will they ask about Gene Cloning - Cloning vectors, Polymerase chain reactions...gel electrophoresis, southern blotting, etc...
2.) Will Chapter 21 (6th edition Cambpell reece) called "The Genetic Basis of Development" be ask on the AP? Nothing from this chapter is in Cliffs...</p>

<p>For the 5 KINDOMS, how much silly detail will they ask about the millions of PHYLA to memorize!!? Will Cliffs be sufficient to memroize rather than Campbell???</p>

<p>For Animal PHYSIOLOGY - Will the last chapter (Sensory and Motor Mechanisms), other than the portion dealing with skeletal muscle contraction which is important, will the diagrams about eye, ear, and all the chemoreceptors, etc... detail be asked?</p>

<p>For ECOLOGY, are the wind currents, CLimates, all the Land details important? Or is basically ECOSYSTEMS, comm ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Population Ecology sufficient?? I feel like the introduction chapter and CONSERVATION ecology are worthless? Do you agree?</p>

<p>Finally, LAB RELATED, how many Multiple choice quesitons from LABS would be asked out of the 100 questions or is simply 1 free Response limited towards labs??</p>

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<p>I haven't taken AP Bio, but you should be aware that there are no longer considered to be five kingdoms... apparently they've consolidated them into three... I know, it annoys me too.</p>

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<p>No, there are three domains- Eukaryates, Archea, and Bacteria... Any advice for my questions? Thanks.</p>

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<p>any help guys?</p>

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<p>no clue....</p>

<p>IB all the way :-D</p>

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<p>It's been a couple years since I took AP bio, but i don't recall much stress on taxonomy; know genetics in obscene detail, but not so much PCR or other specific techniques. Any ecology questions are pretty much common sense. Yes, know cell communication, though just the key points (i.e. GPCR's, second messenger cascades). Really though, the AP bio test is a cakewalk, I got a 5 after having taken a class in which the teacher decided to abandon the curriculum about midway through the year and do dissections for the rest of it. The Barron's book is rather helpful if you have any lingering concerns though.</p>

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<p>Hey, yeah, I used Campbells, got a 5, andddd:</p>

<p>Cell Bio
1. No. nothing. not a thing.</p>

<p>Genetics
1. There may have been one or two questions that required either identifying the type of experiment that would be used and interpreting the results from one of the experiments. I remember a question that showed gel electrophoresis (the jelly majigger) results of several different individuals and asked which one was the offspring of another person (which lines were most similiar, basically)</p>

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<li>No? Don't think so....</li>
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<p>Kingdoms- Well remember it will be on the MC, so you just have to be able to recognize one kingdom over another. The stereotypical question is "there's an organism that has traits X, X and X. Which phyla is it in?" As long as you know enough to distinguish one phyla from another, you'll be fine.</p>

<p>Physiology- lol, we never got to this, and I don't recall there being anything specific about the eye or the ear or anything really.</p>

<p>Ecology- you could really condense everything you need to know into one little page. know the terrains (tundra, savanna, etc.) know the types of evolutionary diversion (isolation....mechanical something or other...) I think you're right about those chapters being of no use.</p>

<p>As for the labs, many questions may require you to interpret data (pretty easy) Example would be that enzyme lab, it shows you a chart and asks why the amount of o2 dropped off at a certain time, what you could do to increase the rate of reaction, etc. I'd guess maybe 5-8 MC questions, based on a certain experiment or two That's also going to be a free response question, usually it's REALLY basic. This goes up when this happens, i'll draw a little chart. SEE!! I Can read graphs. Easy-peasy one-two-threesy.</p>