Investigating Biology Laboratory Manual, 5th edition
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Overview
Investigating Biology Laboratory Manual encourages you to participate in the process of science and develop creative and critical-reasoning skills. With its distinctive investigative approach to learning, full-color art and photos throughout, and abundant exercises, this manual is your go-to resource for learning biology.
Published by Pearson (August 4th 2021) - Copyright © 2017
ISBN-13: 9780137538256
Subject: Biology
Category: Biology for majors
Table of contents
- Scientific Investigation
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 1.1 Questions and Hypotheses
- Exercise 1.2 Designing Experiments to Test Hypotheses
- Exercise 1.3 Designing an Experiment
- Exercise 1.4 Presenting and Analyzing Results
- Exercise 1.5 Interpreting and Communicating Results
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, Videos, and Data Tables
- References
- Websites
- Microscopes and Cells
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 2.1 The Compound Light Microscope
- Exercise 2.2 Basic Microscope Techniques
- Exercise 2.3 The Stereoscopic Microscope
- Exercise 2.4 The Transmission Electron Microscope
- Exercise 2.5 The Organization of Cells
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Diffusion and Osmosis
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 3.1 Diffusion of Molecules
- Exercise 3.2 Osmotic Activity in Cells
- Exercise 3.3 Investigating 0smolarity of Plant Cells
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, Videos, and Data Tables
- References
- Websites
- Enzymes
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 4.1 Experimental Method and the Action of Catechol 0xidase
- Exercise 4.2 Inhibiting the Action of Catechol Oxidase
- Exercise 4.3 Influence of Enzyme Concentration, pH, and Temperature on the Activity of Amylase
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, Videos, and Data Tables
- References
- Websites
- Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 5.1 Alcoholic Fermentation
- Exercise 5.2 Cellular Respiration
- Exercise 5.3 Designing and Performing Your Open-Inquiry Investigation
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, Videos, and Data Tables
- References
- Websites
- Photosynthesis
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 6.1 The Wavelengths of Light for Photosynthesis
- Exercise 6.2 Pigments in Photosynthesis
- Exercise 6.3 Separation and Identification of Plant Pigments by Paper Chromatography
- Exercise 6.4 Determining the Absorption Spectrum for Leaf Pigments
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, Videos, and Data Tables
- References
- Websites
- Mitosis and Meiosis
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 7 .1 Modeling the Cell Cycle and Mitosis in an Animal Cell
- Exercise 7.2 Observing Mitosis and Cytokinesis in Plant Cells
- Exercise 7.3 Observing Chromosomes, Mitosis, and Cytokinesis in Animal Cells
- Exercise 7.4 Modeling Meiosis
- Exercise 7 .5 Meiosis inSordaria fimicola: A Study of Crossing Over
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Mendelian Genetics I: Fast Plants
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 8.1 Inheritance of Anthocyanin Gene
- Exercise 8.2 Inheritance of Plant Color: Green, Yellow-Green, and Purple (Anthocyanin Present)
- Exercise 8.3 Inheritance of Variegated and Nonvariegated Leaf Color
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions 214
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, Videos, and Data Tables
- References
- Websites
- Mendelian Genetics II: Drosophila
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 9.1 Establishing the Enzyme Reaction Controls
- Exercise 9.2 Determining the Pattern of Inheritance of the Aldox Gene
- Exercise 9.3 Determining Parental Genotypes Using Evidence from Progeny
- Exercise 9.4 Mapping Genes
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, Videos, and Data Tables
- References
- Websites
- Molecular Biology
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 10.1 Mapping DNA Using Restriction Enzymes and Electrophoresis
- Exercise 10.2 Practice Problem for Mapping DNA
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Population Genetics: The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 11.1 Testing Hardy-Weinberg EqÀiliÀtium Using a Bead Model
- Exercise 11.2 Simulation of Evolutionary Change Using the Bead Model
- Exercise 11.3 Open-Inquiry Computer Simulation of Evolution
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, Videos, and Data Tables
- References
- Websites
- Bacteriology
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 12.1 Investigating Characteristics of Bacteria
- Exercise 12.2 Ecological Succession of Bacteria in Milk
- Exercise 12.3 Bacteria in the Environment
- Exercise 12.4 Controlling the Growth of Bacteria
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Protists
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 13.1 Supergroup Excavata
- Exercise 13.2 Supergroup •sAR•
- Exercise 13.3 Supergroup Unikonta
- Exercise 13.4 Supergroup Archaeplastida
- Exercise 13.5 Designing and Performing an Open-Inquiry Investigation
- Reviewing Your Knowleqge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Plant Diversity I: Bryophytes (Nonvascular Plants) and Seedless Vascular Plants
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 14.1 Bryophytes (Nonvascular Plants)
- Exercise 14.2 Seedless Vascular Plants
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Plant Diversity II: Seed Plants
- Laboratory Objectives
- Exercise 15.1 Gymnosperms
- Exercise 15.2 Angiosperms
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extension
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Bioinformatics: Molecular Phylogeny of Plants
- Exercise 16.1 Establishing Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships Among Rubisco Large Subunit Genes
- Exercise 16.2 Analyzing Phylogenetic Trees and Reporting Results
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extension
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- The Kingdom Fungi
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 17.1 A Survey of Major Fungal Groups
- Exercise 17.2 Designing and Performing an Open-Inquiry Investigation
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Animal Diversity I: Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Mollusca, and Annelida
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 18.1 Phylum Porifera- Sponges(Scypha)
- Exercise 18.2 Phylum Cnidaria-Hydras (Hydra)
- Exercise 18.3 Phylum Pla tyhelminthes- Planarians(Dugesia)
- Exercise 18.4 Phylum Mollusca-Clams
- Exercise 18.5 Phylum Annelida-Clamworms(Nereis)and Earthworms(Lumbricus terrestris)
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extension
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Animal Diversity II: Nematoda, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, and Chordata
- Exercise 19.1 Phylum Nematoda-Roundworms(Ascaris)
- Exercise 19.2 Phylum Arthropoda
- Exercise 19.3 Phylum Echinodermata- Sea Star
- Exercise 19.4 Phylum Chordata
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extension
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Plant Anatomy
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 20.1 Plant Morphology
- Exercise 20.2 Plant Primary Growth and Development
- Exercise 20.3 Cell Structure of Primary Tissues
- Exercise 20.4 Structure of Tissues Produced by Secondary Growth
- Exercise 20.5 Grocery Store Botany: Modifications of Plant Organs
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extension
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Plant Growth
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 21.1 Factors Influencing Seed Germination
- Exercise 21.2 Plant Growth Regulators: Auxin
- Exercise 21.3 Plant Growth Regulators: Gibberellins
- Exercise 21.4 Designing and Performing an Open-Inquiry Investigation
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Vertebrate Anatomy I: The Skin and Digestive System
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 22.1 Histology of the Skin
- Exercise 22.2 Introduction to the Fetal Pig
- Exercise 22.3 The Digest ive System in the Fetal Pig
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Case Study
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Vertebrate Anatomy II: The Circulatory and Respiratory Systems
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 23.1 Glands and Respiratory Structures of the Neck and Thoracic Cavity
- Exercise 23.2 The Heart and the Pulmonary Blood Circuit
- Exercise 23.3 The Heart and the Systemic Circuit in the Thorax
- Exercise 23.4 The Systemic Circuit in the Abdominal Cavity
- Exercise 23.5 Blood
- Exercise 23.6 Fetal Pig Circulation
- Exercise 23.7 Details of the Respiratory System
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Case Studies
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Vertebrate Anatomy Ill: The Excretory Reproductive, and Nervous Systems
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 24.1 The Excretory System
- Exercise 24.2 The Reproductive System
- Exercise 24.3 Nervous Tissue, the Spinal Cord and Reflex Arc, the Sheep Brain, and the Vertebrate Eye
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Case Studies
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Animal Development
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 25.1 Development in Echinoderms: Sea Urchin and Sea Star
- Exercise 25.2 Development in an Amphibian
- Exercise 25.3 Development in the Zebraflsh
- Exercise 25.4 Development in a Bird: The Chicken
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Animal Behavior
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 26.1 Taxis in Brine Shrimp
- Exercise 26.2 Kinesis in Pill Bugs
- Exercise 26.3 Agonistic Display in Male Siamese Fighting Fish
- Exercise 26.4 Reproductive Behavior in Fruit Flies
- Exercise 26.5 Designing and Performing Your Open-Inquiry Investigation
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
- Ecology I: Terrestrial Eco logy
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 27.1 Biotic Components
- Exercise 27.2 Ablotic Components
- Exercise 27.3 Data Analysis
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Optional Exercise: Investigating Weedy Fields
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, Videos, and Data Tables
- References
- Websites
- Ecology II: Computer Simulations of a Pond Ecosystem
- Laboratory Objectives
- Introduction
- Exercise 28.1 Computer Model of the Pond Ecosystem
- Exercise 28.2 Investigating the Effects of Disturbance on the Pond Ecosystem
- Reviewing Your Knowledge
- Applying Your Knowledge
- Investigative Extensions
- Student Media: BioFlix, Activities, Investigations, and Videos
- References
- Websites
Appendix A Scientific Writing and Communication
Appendix B The Metric System
Appendix C Instrumentation and Techniques
Appendix D Chi-Square Test
Appendix C Terminology and Techniques for Dissection
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