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Please print the lab handouts before the lab section and bring them to lab with you!
Dates and assignments on this page supersede those shown in the syllabus.
This page is the FINAL word.
Instructions / Format for the Project Proposal are HERE
Example proposal is here
Another example is here
Another example is here
Another example is here
Scientific paper writing... an outside source is here
Statistical Calculators
I recommend the Vassar University calculators located here
Here's a shortcut to the One Way ANOVA calculator
Format for abstracts as covered in BIO 3A is here
Various Rubrics for 3B
Week 1
10 JAN 2011
Introduction and Statistics Tune-up
12 JAN 2011 Cladistics Lab
Here's Romer's Vertebrate Phylogeny (from Romer and Parsons, The Vertebrate Body, 1986)
Stats Quiz is here (due in lab on 19 JAN 2011)
Week 2
17 JAN 2011 HOLIDAY MLK Birthday
19 JAN 2011
Prokaryotes Lab HANDOUT
Begin water sampling: Sterile bottles handed out
Water Quality Testing Lab HANDOUT
Stats Quiz due Today
Week 3
24 JAN 2011
Protists Lab HANDOUT
Most current Classification Scheme
for the Domain Eukarya (Campbell and Reece, 2008) is here
26 JAN 2011
Continue Protists Lab NOTE: No Field trip to the sewage plant.
Week 4
31 JAN 2011
Fungi Lab HANDOUT
2 FEB 2011
Non-vascular and Seedless Vascular Plants Lab HANDOUT
Preliminary Project proposals due
Week 5
7 FEB 2011
Gymnosperms and Angiosperms Lab HANDOUT
ABSTRACT 1: Water Quality due TODAY
WATER SAMPLING DATA ARE HERE
9 FEB 2011
Land Plant Structure Lab HANDOUT
Final Project Proposal is due TODAY See sample format here
Week 6
14 FEB 2011
Plant Reproduction Lab HANDOUT
Chlorophyll Lab extraction today. Download the HANDOUT
16 FEB 2011
1. Complete Chlorophyll Lab: Measuring Chlorophyll Concentrations (see handout)
You must also download MacKinney (1941) from the Reading Room
You might also read Cate and Perkins (2003), a short paper that talks about the technique we will use.
THE MATH is here
BRING A FLASH DRIVE TO LAB TODAY TO DOWNLOAD YOUR DATA!
2. Review for Practical Exam
Week 7
21 FEB 2011
PRACTICAL EXAM I PLANTS, FUNGI, PROTISTS and BACTERIA: Form, Function and Systematics
23 FEB 2011
In-Lab Lecture
ABSTRACT 2: Chlorophyll postponed
Week 8
28 FEB 2011
Invertebrate Diversity Lab I HANDOUT
2 MAR 2011
Invertebrate Diversity Lab II HANDOUT
Week 9
7 MAR 2011
Chordates Lab HANDOUT
Fish Scales handout
9 MAR 2011
Histology Lab HANDOUT
Week 10
SPRING BREAK... The perfect time to work on the project
Week 11
21 MAR 2011
Review for Practical II
23MAR 2011
Review for Practical II
Week 12
28 MAR 2011
LAB PRACTICAL II Animal Systematics and Histology
28 MAR 2011
Skeletal System Lab HANDOUT
Muscular System Lab HANDOUT
The muscle list is here
The bone list is here
Week 13
4 APR 2011
Continue Muscular/ Skeletal systems
6 APR 2011
Continue Muscular/ Skeletal systems
Week 14
11 APR 2011
Review for Practical III
13 APR 2011
Begin: Respiratory and Circulatory Systems Lab HANDOUT
Practice Practical Exam is HERE
Answers are here
NOTE: I do not guarantee the "correctness" of these answers!!!!
Week 15
18 APR 2011
LAB PRACTICAL III Skeletal and Muscular Systems
20 APR 2011
Respiratory and Circulatory Systems Lab HANDOUT
Week 16
25 APR 2011
Mammalian Dive Response Lab HANDOUT
Wear a Tee Shirt to lab today!
Dive data are HERE
27 APR 2011
Digestive, Urogenital and Nervous Systems HANDOUT
Project paper due for peer review TODAY
Week 17
2 MAY 2011
Mammalian Osmoregulation Lab HANDOUT
Dive Response Abstract due today (in lab)
PEER REVIEWS DUE TODAY
4 MAY 2011
Review for practical exam
2011 Urine Data are here
Week 18
9 MAY 2011
Practical Exam IV Respiratory, Circulatory, Digestive, Urogenital and Nervous Systems
Following the practical we will have about 1 hour discussion (in lab) on how to do the PowerPoint presentation.
11 MAY 2011
PowerPoint Presentation Practice Session
12 MAY 2011 Biological Sciences Society Annual Meeting SM 313, all day