AP Biology 12

This course focuses on the core principles that explain how living systems function and interact. Students examine how evolution drives both the diversity and unity of life, and how biological systems use energy and molecular building blocks to grow, reproduce, and maintain dynamic homeostasis. The course also explores how living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes, and how interactions within and between biological systems give rise to complex and interconnected properties. There is an emphasis on hands-on activities, such as experiments, projects, and fieldwork, to develop science skills and thinking. Students will write the AP Biology exam in May.

AP Biology 11 and 12 cover overlapping material; the course also incorporates Anatomy & Physiology 12 topics, allowing students to earn both credits by the end of the year. 

Course Prerequisite: AP Biology 11