SAN DIEGO MESA COLLEGE

BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

BIOLOGY 107 (Laboratory) – Summer 2008

 

TEXTS & SUPPLIES NEEDED:

MANUAL: Mesa College Staff, Laboratory Experiments in General Biology, 11th Edition

LAB KIT: purchase at bookstore.  Please bring your lab kit to all labs.

GLOVES:  available at bookstore or pharmacy.  Please bring gloves for dissections.

 

 

Week

MON

TUE

THU

TOPICS

1

23-Jun

Room 101

 

 

LAB SAFETY, ORIENTATION, SCIENTIFIC METHOD

MANUAL Exercises 1 & 2, Appendix A & B

 

1

 

 

 

24-Jun

Room 121

 

MICROSCOPES AND CELLS

MANUAL Exercise 3

 

1

 

 

26-Jun

Room 101

DIFFUSION AND OSMOSIS

MANUAL Exercise 4

 

2

30-Jun

Room 121

 

 

ENZYMES

MANUAL Exercise 5

 

2

 

1-Jul

Room 101

 

CELLULAR RESPIRATION:(1) RESPIRATION RATE AS A FUNCTION OF BODY SIZE (METABOLIC RATE), (2) GLYCOLYSIS & FERMENTATION

MANUAL Exercises 6 & 7

 

2

 

 

3-Jul

Room 121

FIELD TRIP – or instructor’s choice

(setup and materials to be provided by instructor)

3

7-Jul

Room 101

 

 

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

MANUAL Exercise 8

 

3

 

8-Jul

Room 121

 

MEIOSIS & MENDELIAN GENETICS

MANUAL Exercise 9

 

3

 

 

10-Jul

Room 101

HUMAN GENETICS

MANUAL Exercise 10

 

4

14-Jul

Room 121

 

 

MOLECULAR GENETICS (DNA)

MANUAL Exercise 11 and 12

 

4

 

15-Jul

Room 101

 

ANIMAL KINGDOM – SIMPLE ANIMALS

MANUAL Exercise 13, Appendix C & D

 

4

 

 

 

 

17-Jul

Room 121

ANATOMY: DISSECTION OF THE WHITE RAT

MANUAL Exercise 15

 

5

21-Jul

Room 101

 

 

THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

MANUAL Exercise 16

5

 

22-Jul

Room 121

 

PLANT EVOLUTION

MANUAL Exercise 14, Appendix C & D MANUAL Exercise 16

5

 

 

24-Jul

Room 101

FIELD TRIP – or instructor’s choice

(setup and materials to be provided by instructor)

 

6

28-Jul

Room 121

 

 

 

INSTRUCTOR CHOICE/ Ecology Film and Exercise

6

 

29-Jul

Room 101

 

ECOLOGY

MANUAL Exercise 17

 

 

 

 

31-Jul

Room 121

INSTRUCTOR CHOICE/Review