<p>Somebody make another chatroom.</p>
<p>yes someone needs to address the question about WHICH are the MAJOR ESSAY TOPICS lol nobody has predictions!?!!</p>
<p>and chatrooms don't work, people randomly get off-topic</p>
<p>But getting off topic is fun.</p>
<p>will we have to know what zygomycota and all that classification stuff?</p>
<p>Just wanted to post this for people who didn't have cliffs AP Bio review</p>
<p>According to them, these are Must-Know Essay Questions</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Cells: Cell structure, especially structure and function of the plasma membrane</p></li>
<li><p>Respiration: Respiration and mitochondria</p></li>
<li><p>Photosynthesis: Photosynthesis and chloroplasts</p></li>
<li><p>Cell Division: Mitosis and meiosis</p></li>
<li><p>Molecular Genetics: DNA structure and replication</p></li>
<li><p>Molecular Genetics: Protein synthesis</p></li>
<li><p>Evolution: Natural selection</p></li>
<li><p>Evolution: Speciation</p></li>
<li><p>Plants: Reproduction in flowering plants</p></li>
<li><p>Plants: Plant tropisms and hormones (especially auxin)</p></li>
<li><p>Animal Structure and Function: Nerve transmission</p></li>
<li><p>Animal Structure and Function: Muscle contraction</p></li>
<li><p>Animal Reproduction and Development: Menstrual cycle</p></li>
<li><p>Ecology: Succession</p></li>
<li><p>Ecology: Biogeochemical cycles</p></li>
</ol>
<p>You can see a lot of commonalities if you look at the FRQ's on cb.com</p>
<p>Lol Wait What</p>
<p>we need to KNOW ALL THESE TOPICS, or are these the most common topics to appear? and what's Evolution: Speciation, can anyone please specify?</p>
<p>Q: What factors inhibit population growth?</p>
<p>Factors that inhibit population growth include major natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, or extreme fires. These disasters may wipe out complete species or reduce the species causing fewer species of organisms to mate and ultimately inhibiting population growth.</p>
<p>Other factors may be things like genetic drift that changes the allele frequencies of different populations based on environmental changes or things like colonization. The bottle-neck effect demonstrates the effect of an environmental stress causing many species to die down, but the founder effect involved with new colonization can create new species with similar traits.....</p>
<p>anyways, FOR THE 2008 BIO AUDIT EXAM PRACTICE FREE RESPONSE, are these questions/topics LIKELY ON MONDAY'S AP EXAM, OR JUST FOR PRACTICE? let me know, thanks</p>
<p>What are some Heredity/genetic topics to study for free response? (since I don't think they will put something like molecular genetics and recombinant DNA using plasmids as it was used last year)</p>
<p>i would say study it all, im not a pro at bio (i do blame my teacher for this though), but to me, most of the free responses seem to be writing out a lesson in 20mins. </p>
<p>For heredity and genetics they might not ask last years question but if they ask one in heredity and genetics (which i doubt) it will be similar. how much more can they talk about? but if anyhting its good to know down syndrome, turners, hemophilia, etcc..</p>
<p>btw i just pmed u</p>
<p>Good things to review for genetics and heredity would be regulation and how it can go wrong. You should be familiar with recombination frequencies, restriction maps (I think it was a FRQ last year...dunno if it will be on the test this year). Also understanding the lac operon, as its a basic model of inducive reponse or whatever it's called.</p>
<p>k regarding the cell cycle, besides knowing the steps, they might ask what are some changes or iregularities that can happen causing disease, can someone help with explaining this?</p>
<p>they might ask about apoptosis, mutations, and tumor-supp genes, stuff like that</p>
<p>any essay predictions made by teachers?=</p>
<p>study mitosis/meiosis,</p>
<p>do we need to know about sordaria and ascospores?</p>