AP Bio Summer Work

Question 1

Four Big Ideas of Biology

Answer 1

Evolution, Free Energy, Information, Systems

Question 2

5 things models are used for

Answer 2

Create
Describe
Refine
Use
Re-Express

Question 3

5 things models allow you to do

Answer 3

Create
Describe
Refine
Use
Re-express

Question 4

What makes a good scientific quesition

Answer 4

Specific (1 independent, 1 dependent variable)
Answerable
Empirically measurable
Leads to future investigation

Question 5

Three things to do during Scientific Questioning

Answer 5

Literature Research, Fact Finding, Experimental Design

Question 6

In Vitro

Answer 6

Experiment performed in a test tube, petri dish, or elsewhere outside a living organism

Question 7

In Vivo

Answer 7

Experiment performed in a living organism

Question 8

In Silico

Answer 8

Simulated experiment in a computer

Question 9

What is science?

Answer 9

A belief that we have an objective shared reality governed by natural laws that can be discovered through observation and experimentation

Question 10

The first thing you should do with data is to

Answer 10

Organize it into a graph and learn from patterns