Materials:
-onions
-beakers
-hot water bath
-blender
-cheesecloth
-pipette
-chloroform
-homogenizing solution
-erlenmeyer flask
Exercises:
-Learn what DNA looks like
-Learn to isolate DNA out of cells into a pure form
-Learn to precipitate DNA out of cells into a pure form
-Learn what homogenization is
-Learn what deproteinization is
-Learn what precipitation is
Materials:
-Websire from University of Washington
-Pipe Cleaners
-Thumb Tacks
-Push Pins
-Short Pins
-Long Pins
-Styrofoam
-Toothpick
-Geometric Shapes
Exercsises:
- Learn how a dominant relationship work between two genes
- Learn how recessive alleles may cause genetic disease in a population
- Learn what are sex-linked alleles are
- Learn how genes are expressed
- Observe the relationship between genotype and phenotype by building Rebops
- Learn to understand how genes contain information
- Learn how the relationship between genes influences expression on the phenotype
Laboratory 5: Cell Division and Mitosis
Materials:
- Slides
- Stain
- Onion Root Tip
- Pipe Cleaners
- Plastic Rings
- Beads
Exercises:
- Look at the different stages of mitosis
- Recognize the differences between plant and animal cell division
- Look for dividing cells in plant
- Look if mitosis occurs everywhere throughout the plant body
- Look how to make chromosomes visible
- Find the difference stages of mitosis and what they do (interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinesis)
Materials:
-Microscope
-Brownian movement
-Timer
-IKI
-Methylene Blue
-Agar plate
-Thistle Tube Apparatus
-Hot Water Bath
-Cold Water Bath
-Dialysis Tube
-Thermometer
-Beakers
-String
-Perfume
Exercises:
- Learn where the energy comes from (movement of molecules in diffusion)
- Learn if gases diffuse into other gases
- Learn if liquids diffuse into solids
- Learn which membranes are selectively permeable or permeable
- Learn how warming the external environment affects diffusion
- Learn how cooling the external environment affects diffusion
Lab 3: Plants and Energy
Materials:
- potato
- sweet potato
- yam
- rudebaga
- apple
- pear
- prism
- slides of leaves
- stain
Exercises:
- Determine where the glucose is stored
- Determine what you would use to find sugars stored in plants
- Determine the cross-section of the plant and identify the structures and their functions
- Determine how plants acquire energy from sunlight for photosynthesis
- Determine where the chemicals for photosynthesis enter and leave the plant
Lab 3: Plants and Energy
Materials:
- potato
- sweet potato
- yam
- rudebaga
- apple
- pear
- prism
- slides of leaves
- stain
Exercises:
- Determine where the glucose is stored
- Determine what you would use to find sugars stored in plants
- Determine the cross-section of the plant and identify the structures and their functions
- Determine how plants acquire energy from sunlight for photosynthesis
- Determine where the chemicals for photosynthesis enter and leave the plant
Materials:
- compound light microscope
-stereomicroscope (dissecting scope)
-slides
-the letter e
-Threads
-Paramecium
-Volvox
-IKI
-water
-coverslip
-paper towel
-potato
-onion cells
-ruler
-lab manuel
Exercises
- Familiarize yourself on how to use the compound light microscope
- Familiarize yourself on how to use the stereo miscroscope
- Familiarize yourself with the different parts of the compound light microscope
- Familiarize yourself with the different parts of the stereomicroscope
- Learn how to make we mount slides
- Learn how to stain slides
- Use the information you learned throughout Part I in a forensic crime simulation
