Biodiversity II


Materials

1. Porifera-preserved sponges
2. Gymnosperms-needle leaves and cones, pollen slide
3. Angiosperms- live flower, fruit examples, and tap root from carrot
4. Zygomycetes- live culture of bread mold, slide of mycelia, hyphae, and zygospores
5. Basidiomycetes- mushroom specimens and spicules
6. Cnidaria-preserved jellyfish- medusa stage, coral- polyp stage only, live hydra, slide-hydra colony (polyp stage)
7. Platyhelminthes- planaria-live culture, tapeworm slide
8. Annedlia- preserved earthworm
9. Arthropoda- horseshoe crab shell, preserved spiders and ticks, crab shells, insect
10. Echinoderms- starfish, sea urchin, sand dollar
11. Chordata- amphixious preserved specimen, amphioxus slide- notochord, nerve cord, and gill slits
12. Fish- preserved fish, shark
13. Amphibia- frog skeleton
14. Reptilia- snake skeleton, other reptile skeletons
15. Mammalia- cat skeleton, study sking, mount
16. Aves- pigeon skeleton, study skin, mount-great horned owl
17. Light Microscop

Exercises

1. Examine each respective slide and record findings
2. Take notes

Genetic Architecture, Karyology, and Human Genetics Lab


Materials

• Chromosomes envelopes
• Chromosome envelopes and alleles on chromosomes
• Body parts and phenotypic characters
• Rebop female
• Rebop male
• Rebop male and female in mating season
• Slides of sickle cells- low power and high power
• Power source
• Gel apparatus
• Gel running
• Gel-electrophoresis results 1
• Gel-electrophoresis results 2

Exercises

• Genetic Architecture- building a Rebop
• Prepare gel
• Prepare gel apparatus
• Pour buffer into apparatus
• Turn on power supply

Monday, October 20th


Biological Chemicals and Nutrition Lab


Materials

• Carbs- solutions and chemicals
• Fats- solutions and chemicals
• Proteins- solutions and chemicals

Experiments

• Carbohydrate Test- simple sugars
• Carbohydrate Test- starches
• Fat Testing
• Protein Testing
• Executive diet helper

Monday, October 6th, 2014

Cell Division and Mitosis Lab


Materials

• Whole Mount slides
• Root tip
• Interphase
• Propahes- examples 1 and 2
• Metaphase
• Anaphase
• Telophase- examples 1 and 2

Exercise

• Chemical preparation
• Prepare onion root tip
• Seperate root tip
• Prepare slide
• Observe slides

Plants and Energy Lab
Monday, September 29, 2014


Materials

1. Chlorophyll and carotenoid extracts
2. Elodea
3. Tradescantia guard cells- whole mount specimen
4. Tradescantia guard cells- living plant
5. Potato
6. White sweet potato
7. Brown sweet potato
8. Turnip
9. Apple
10. Pear
11. Banana
12. Light Microscope

Exercises

• Prepare paper- making the inoculation point on chromatography paper
• Prepare paper- inoculation of sample on chromatography paper
• Add solvent- adding solvent to the chromatography development cylinder
• Place paper in dissolving solution

Monday September 22, 2014




Materials

• Thistle tube
• Dialysis tubing
• Corn Syrup
• India ink solutions for slides
• IKI and Methylene blue solutions
•  Bore and agar plate
• IKI and Methylene blue in agar
• Ohaus balance
• Glucose solution
• Thread
• Cold water bath
• Warm water bath

Experiments

• Membranes
• Brownian movement
• Liquid in a solid

Monday, September 15, 2014

Microscope Lab

Materials

• Whole mounts (letter e, thread) 
• Wet mounts (slides, coverslips, and water bottles)
• Wet mount (protists)
• Wet mount (onion, potato, IKI stain)
• Dissecting scope materials
• Forensic lab materials
• Forensic lab materials- per bench

Exercises

• Making slides
• Staining technique
• Parts of the microscope
• Slides for Compound Light Microscope
• Materials for dissecting scope
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