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

    Scientific Paper Rubric

    Abstract and Figure Rubric

 

 

Week 1

       10 JAN 2011

            Introduction  and Statistics Tune-up

 

       12 JAN 2011   Cladistics Lab

                Handout

                    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