Biology for college credit: AP, CLEP, DSST or a course

Two, by College Board's description: it covers what is “usually taught in a one-year college general biology course”, and College Board recommends 6 semester hours for a score of 50. Your college sets its own score and credit. UPI Study splits that ground into two courses of 3 semester hours each, Biology 1 (cells, genetics, evolution) and Biology 2 (organisms and ecology), so you can take only the one you need.

By College Board's page, yes: its college equivalent is “a two-semester college introductory biology course for biology majors”, with high school biology and chemistry recommended first. UPI Study's two courses carry ACE's subject Introduction to Biology for Nonmajors, so ask your college which requirement each one meets, especially if you plan to major in a science.

No. DSST's Physical Sciences exams are Astronomy, Environmental Science, Health & Human Development and Introduction to Geology; none is biology. By exam, biology credit comes from CLEP Biology, CLEP Natural Sciences (half of it biological science) or AP Biology.

Intro to Biology 1 (Biology 100) covers the chemistry of life, cells and membranes, metabolism, respiration and photosynthesis, genetics, gene expression and evolution. Intro to Biology 2 (Biology 200) covers viruses, microbes, fungi, plants and animals, how animal body systems work, reproduction, and ecology from populations to ecosystems.

Intro to Biology 1: NCCRS recommends 3 semester hours, lower division, in Biology I and II among other subjects; ACE recommends 3 (ACE ID UPIS-0009). Intro to Biology 2: NCCRS recommends 3 semester hours, lower division, in Biology I and II among other subjects; ACE recommends 3 (ACE ID UPIS-0027).

Both are recommended in the same subjects: Biology I and II, Ecology, Natural Science, or Integrated Science. Your college decides which requirement each one fills.

Intro to Biology 1: 15 chapters and 66 instructional hours. Intro to Biology 2: 16 chapters and 73 instructional hours. Both are self-paced, so you finish as fast or as slow as you want.

Neither syllabus lists a prerequisite, so you can start with any of them.

Intro to Biology 1: 118 multiple-choice questions, 50% of the grade. Intro to Biology 2: 100 multiple-choice questions, 50% of the grade.

The same way: quizzes 20%, the assignment 30%, the final exam 50%. A pass is 70 or more.

No. Intro to Biology 1 and Intro to Biology 2 are lecture courses with no lab. UPI Study's lab courses are Chemistry Lab, Physics Lab and the two Anatomy and Physiology Labs.

Intro to Biology 1: Clark, Mary Ann, Matthew Douglas, and Jung Choi. Biology 2e. OpenStax, 2018. Intro to Biology 2: Clark, Mary Ann, Matthew Douglas, and Jung Choi. Biology 2e. OpenStax.

Intro to Biology 1: yes, ACE ID UPIS-0009, 3 semester hours. Intro to Biology 2: yes, ACE ID UPIS-0027, 3 semester hours. ACE listings run three years and UPI Study renews them as they end; credit you have earned stays valid for 10 years.

Environmental Science. In the “General biology” order on the Science and labs courses page, it follows Intro to Biology 2. Your program may set its own order.

70 or more passes Intro to Biology 1. Your transcript's grading scale shows the letter grade 70 maps to, which most colleges read as a C.

Yes: the Intro to Biology 1 syllabus opens after a free sign-in. It lists all 15 chapters, the grading and the credit recommendation, so you can send it to your registrar.

ACE and NCCRS have over 2,100 cooperating colleges that will consider accepting credits; the final decision is with the universities. For CLEP or AP, check the CLEP and AP credit-policy searches or ask your registrar which score it needs. Search your school in Find My College. It helps to name the subject: NCCRS recommends Intro to Biology 1 in Biology I and II and Intro to Biology 2 in Biology I and II.