Crush it in AP Bio Unit 5 (Heredity: Meiosis and Genetics)

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📒 AP Bio Unit 5 Outline📒
00:00 Introduction
01:11 Meiosis, the big picture (AP Bio Topics 5.1-5.2, Part 1). Includes key terms like haploid, diploid, homologous, germ cell, somatic cell
07:22 How does meiosis compare to mitosis?
08:11 How Meiosis Creates Variation: Independent Assortment and Crossing Over (AP Bio Topics 5.1-5.2, Part 2)
13:15 What is crossing over?
15:12 Meiosis, explanation of each step (AP Bio Topics 5.1-5.2, Part 3)
17:53 Best advice for how to succeed in AP Bio
18:49 How is sex determination in mammals? Birds? Insects? (AP Bio Topic Topic 5.6, part 1)
22:48 What is temperature dependent sex determination?
24:23 Sex determination in ants and bees through haplodiploidy
26:37 What is nondisjunction? How does nondisjunction lead to chromosomal variations such as monosomies and trisomies (AP Bio Topic Topic 5.6, part 2)
31:07 What are the key concepts of Mendelian Genetics? (genes, genotype, phenotype, dominant, recessive, homozygous, heterozygous: AP Bio Topic 5.3)
34:23 How do you do a Punnett Square for a monohybrid cross?
36:53 Independent Assortment and Dihybrid Crosses
40:57 How do Mendel's Laws Connect to Meiosis?
42:02 How to use the rule of multiplication to solve genetics problems?
44:40 Linkage and recombination (AP Bio Topic 5.4, part 1)
54:12 Advice for students about succeeding in AP Bio
54:40 Sex Linked Genes (AP Bio Topic 5.4, part 2)
59:41 Non-Nuclear Inheritance: Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Genes (AP Bio Topic 5.4, part 3)
01:02:06 Incomplete Dominance (AP Bio Topic 5.4, part 4)
01:03:50 Genotype Environment Interaction (AP Bio Topic 5.5)

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[eduardodegering]

I don't think Interphase II exist. Meiosis goes from cytokinesis I to prophase II.