Midterm+Review

**Midterm Review 2012**
 * Advanced Placement Biology**

**__Chemistry of Life:__** Review AP lab on Enzymes Know how enzymes act and what effects them Review AP Lab on Diffusion / Osmosis and be able to answer questions related to a given scenario. Match the biochemical molecule formula with its proper name and know its nicknames. Identify examples of active and passive transport.

**__Water Chemistry:__** Know the characteristics of water that make it essential for life. ID molecules

**__Cytology:__** Know the structure and function of the cellular organelles. Membranes are found in which components of a cell? Know the typical components of the plasma membrane of a cell? Know the characteristics of microtubules, microfilaments, and basal-bodies. Differentiate plant and animal cells. Differentiate between prokaryote and eukaryote. What is the difference between integral and peripheral proteins? Be able to differentiate the intracellular junctions, desmosomes, tight junctions, gap junctions

**__Heredity:__** Know the structure of DNA Differentiate epistasis, polygenics, and pleotrophy. Differentiate incomplete and codominance. Know the law of dominance. Be able to solve genetic probability questions. Differentiate mitosis and meiosis Define gamete, allele, chromosome, chromatin, sister, and homologue. Be able to read an electrophoresis gel. Define amplification and penetrance in terms of genetic diseases.

**__Human Body Systems__** Define epistasis and chyme. Identify and describe function of all parts of all systems. Know the overall function of all systems. Describe the flow of blood through the body / heart.