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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