The Princeton Review - Essential Review for AP, Honors, and Other Advanced Study: Biology

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Fast Track: Biology is a one-stop guide meant to help you keep up with your courseor to accelerate your content expertise. Whether youre a crammer, visual learner, or high-level student looking for extra review, this book is filled to the brim with information that youll benefit from knowing (or brushing up on). Weve taken every opportunity to translate key content into friendly and succinct formats, from iconographic breakdowns of phenotypes to an illustrated guide to each phase of mitosis, and much more. In shortwhich is the point of this bookthink of the following material as a fantastic set of class notes.

This book is pocket-sized because its meant to be used whenever and wherever you want. Waiting on a tardy friend? Brush up on the difference between chromosomes and chromatids. Stuck on a sluggish commute? Check out how an ecosystem is disrupted. These are bite-sized topics that you can pick up and put down at your own pace. Whether you need it for a last-minute review or as a supplement for your class, youll find no judgment here. Remember: its never too late (or too early) to start studying.

What you wont find here are test-taking strategies or practice questions for a specific standardized test, like the AP or SAT Subject exams; for that kind of focus, check out our test-specific biology prep titles online or at your local bookstore.

This book opens with the most fundamental principles of biologythat of life itself, particularly atoms and elements. It builds up from there to encompass cells and cellular life, and then goes on to detail some of the reactive products that occur within and through them, such as the use of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to power reactions like protein synthesis.

After that, we look at things on a more molecular level (focusing on DNA), and from there move naturally to how modern genetics describes and informs our heredity, from a healthy dose of the probabilities of a Punnett square to hybridization and inheritance. (If youve heard the expression Its not in your DNA, you can rest assured that these lessons are for everyone!)

Continuing up the chain, youll get chapters focused on evolution, breeding, hormonal functionality, and more. Well conclude with a look at the entire ecosystem and how biostatistics can be used to evaluate it. Weve even got plenty of material on plants, for all the chlorophyll fans out there. In short, this book covers all of the biology contentand probably then some!that you would study in a high school class, AP or otherwise! This means that whether youre cramming for your classs final exam or prepping for an AP or SAT-level test in biology, this book can help you get thereon the fast track.