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The whole AP Biology course on one page, plus one page per unit, reviewed every year. Made and checked by the Fiveable Content Team.
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What each unit's one-page cheatsheet covers. Open a unit to read the start of its sheet.
Organelles & the Endomembrane System · Membrane Structure & Composition · Membrane Permeability & Transport Rules · Tonicity, Water Potential & Osmoregulation · Surface Area-to-Volume Ratios · Cell Compartmentalization & Prokaryote vs. Eukaryote
Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
Cell Communication: Distance & Mechanism · Negative & Positive Feedback · Signal Transduction: Pathway & Disruption · Mitosis: Stages & Outcomes · Cell Cycle Phases: Interphase · Cell Cycle Regulation & Disruption
Meiosis I: Separation of Homologs · Meiosis II: Separation of Sister Chromatids · Mitosis vs. Meiosis · Sources of Genetic Diversity in Meiosis · Nondisjunction & Aneuploidy · Mendelian Genetics: Core Definitions · Mendel's Laws & Probability · Non-Mendelian Patterns: Linkage & Dominance · Sex-Linked & Non-Nuclear Inheritance · Phenotypic Plasticity & Environment
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Fitness and Natural Selection
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3.5 Cellular Respiration
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3.5 Cellular Respiration
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A cheatsheet condenses a whole course into the facts you actually need on exam day. The AP Biology cheatsheets on this page summarize the key formulas, concepts, and definitions from each unit so you can review the entire course at a glance.
They work best as a final review: skim the one-page summary, spot the units you want to strengthen, then go deeper with the AP Biology study guides. The visual cheatsheets in the gallery are organized by unit, and you can generate your own for any topic you want a quick refresher on.