Delve’s AP biology course is the equivalent of a first-year college introductory course in biology. Students who perform well on the exam may be able to enroll in upper-level biology courses during their freshmen year of college or fulfill their university’s science and laboratory requirements. The textbook, which will be distributed on the first day of class is Neil A. Campbell’s Biology, 7th edition. It is recommended, but not required, that students have a year of experience in high school biology. It is our goal that the course will not only relay basic factual and conceptual information, but also engender an appreciation of the scientific process and mindset to students in our class. The three general areas covered by the course include molecules and cells, heredity and evolution, and organisms and populations.