| Week
Number / Dates |
Laboratory |
Techniques/Methods/Topics |
Lab
Reports Due As Noted |
| 1 / Aug 18,20 |
1 - Epistemology Lab | - optical illusion - auditory illusion - making observations - making inferences (conclusions) |
Important Note:
Save all your labs into a notebook that will be turned in at the end of
the semester and then returned to you. |
| 2 / Aug 25, 27 |
2 - Communities and Biomes | - using a GPS - use of a dichotomous key - constructing a food web - constructing a climatogram - mapping biomes |
Epistemology
Lab |
| 3 / Sep 3 |
3 - Biomolecules and Basic
Chemistry |
- elements, protons, neutrons, atomic number, atomic mass - determining and understanding pH - detecting lipids - detecting reducing sugars - detecting protein - detecting starch |
Communities
and Biomes |
| 4 / Sep 8, 10 |
4 - Basic Techniques in
the Biology
Laboratory: |
- using the microscope, a basic tool of biology - biomolecule separation : chromatography - biomolecule separation : electrophoresis - graphing data - hypothesis testing using X-squared analysis |
Biomolecules and Basic
Chemistry |
| 5 / Sep 15, 17 |
5 - Osmosis and Diffusion |
- diffusion, osmosis and dialysis - hypertonic, isotonic, hypotonic solutions - water potential calculations - plasmolysis |
Techniques |
| 6 / Sep 22, 24 |
6 - Enzyme |
- enzymatic reactions - measureing the disappearance of substrate - calculating enzyme reaction rates - analyzing enzyme reaction rates - observing the effect of denaturation |
- Osmosis Due Monday Sept 29. |
| 7 / Sep 29, 1 |
7 - Respiration |
- measuring the
respiration rate in germinating plants - improvising a respirometer |
Enzymes
Due Monday, Oct. 6 |
| 8 / Oct 6, 8 |
8 - Photosynthesis |
- chromatography of
spinach leaf pigments - studying the light reactions in photosynthesis - using the spectrophotometer - the use of controls |
Respiration Due Monday, Oct. 13 |
| 9 / Oct 13, 15 |
9 - Mitosis See Introductory Power Point on Mitosis View Class Data on Cell Cycle |
- examine Drosophila
cultures - sexing Drosophila - crossing mutants with wild type |
Photosynthesis Due Monday, Oct. 20 |
| 10 / Oct 20, 22 |
|
- examine Lillium meristem - examine White fish blastula - determine length of stages in the cell cycle by counting |
Photosynthesis due |
| 11 / Oct 27, 29 |
10 - Meiosis and
Chromosome Mapping |
- explore meiosis through
a simulation - check Drosophila cultures - start Sordaria cultures |
Nothing Due |
| 12 / Nov 3, 5 |
11 - Drosophila
(monohybrid) |
- Human Genetics,
phenotypes, genotypes - check Drosophila cultures - check Sordaria cultures - start Halobacterium cultures |
Mitosis Due Monday, Nov 3 |
| 13 / Nov 12 |
12 - Drosophila (dihybrid) | - check Drosophila
cultures - check Sordaria cultures : collect data to map the "tan" gene - check Halobacterium cultures |
No lab due |
| 14 / Nov 17, 19 |
13 - Protein Lab |
- Using Electrophoresis
for Protein Separation - separate proteins from different fish species |
Meiosis and Chromosome
Mapping |
| 15 / Nov 24, 26 |
14 - DNA Extraction and
Fingerprinting |
- DNA extraction from Halobacterium - DNA restriction enzymes - DNA fingerprinting of lambda bacteriophage plasmid |
Drosophila
I (12/1) Drosophila II 12/3 |
| 16 / Dec 1, 3 |
15 - Experimental Design |
- apply techniques you
have learned to investigate something of your own choice. |
Proteins, 12/8 |
| 17 / Dec 8, 10 |
DNA
Lab, 12/8 : Exper.
Design 12/12 |
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| 18 / Monday Dec 15, 1:00 pm |