Laboratory Class

Bio 10, Fall 2007

REQUIRED: Laboratory Manual  (available at the DeAnza bookstore)

SOP Standard Operating Procedures for the Laboratory.  You must read, sign and turn in to the instructor the first week of labs.

LAB SCHEDULE:

Week 1: Introduction to the Inquiry Process 

NOTE: remember to complete the assignment for Lab 1!  email your instructor regarding your 'personal reflection' about the  inquiry process

Week 2: Care & Handling of the Microscope

Week 3: Eukaryotic Cells

Week 4: Cellular Chemistry    

NOTE: read the PRE-LAB  WORK instructions by clicking on the Cellular Chemistry link

Week 5: Photosynthesis

Week 6: Chromosomes & Cell Division

Week 7: Mitosis & Meiosis

Week 8:  DNA Forensic Analysis  (file to download)

Note: Additional reading assignment added, click on link

Week 9: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY (No labs this week)

Week 10: Human Ecology

Week 11: FINAL LAB (EXAM) STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: 

on the LAB topic: "Biology in Context: Preserving Biodiversity,"  

Week 12: FINALS WEEK. 

Tuesday, December 11: NO CLASS (no lecture and no lab)

Thursday, December 13: FINAL LECTURE EXAM

11:30 am - 1:30 pm (comprehensive)

...A 'look' at some of my research history in teratology/developmental; marine, micro and molecular biology: