Laboratory Manual for General Biology

Succeed in biology with LABORATORY MANUAL FOR GENERAL BIOLOGY! Through hands-on-lab experience, this biology laboratory manual reinforces biology concepts to help you get a better grade. Exercises, pre-lab questions, and post-lab questions enhance your understanding and make lab assignments easy to complete and easy to comprehend.

Preface. To the Student. Laboratory Supplies and Procedures. 1. Scientific Method. 2. Measurement. 3. Microscopy. 4. Homeostasis. 5. Macromolecules and You: Food and Diet Analysis. 6. Structure and Function of Living Cells. 7. Diffusion, Osmosis, and the Functional Significance of Biological Membranes. 8. Enzymes: Catalysts of Life. 9. Photosynthesis: Capture of Light Energy. 10. Respiration: Energy Conversion. 11. Mitosis and Cytokinesis: Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Division. 12. Meiosis: Basis of Sexual Reproduction. 13. Heredity. 14. Nucleic Acids: Blueprints for Life. 15. Biotechnology. 16. Evolutionary Agents. 17. Evidences of Evolution. 18. Taxonomy: Classifying and Naming Organisms. 19. Eubacteria and Protistans. 20. Protistans II. 21. Fungi. 22. Bryophytes: Liverworts and Mosses. 23. Seedless Vascular Plants: Fern Allies and Ferns. 24. Seed Plants I: Gymnosperms. 25. Seed Plants II: Angiosperms. 26. Sponges and Cnidarians. 27. Flatworms, Roundworms, and Rotifers. 28. Mollusks, Segmented Worms, and Joint-legged Animals. 29. Echinoderms and Invertebrate Chordates. 30. Vertebrates. 31. Plant Organization: Vegetative Organs of Flowering Plants. 32. Animal Organization. 33. Pig Dissection: Introduction, External Anatomy, and the Muscular System. 34. Pig: Digestive, Respiratory, and Circulatory Systems. 35. Pig: Urogenital and Nervous Systems. 36. Human Sensations, Reflexes, and Reactions. 37. Structure and Function of the Sense Organs. 38. Human Skeletal and Muscular Systems. 39. Human Blood and Circulation. 40. Human Respiration. 41. Animal Development: Gametogenesis and Fertilization. 42. Animal Development: Cleavage, Gastrulation, and Late Development. 43. The Natural Arsenal: A Study of Relationships Between Plants and Animals. 44. Ecology: Living Organisms in Their Environment. 45. Human Impact on the Environment. 46. Animal Behavior. Appendix 1: Metric Conversions. Appendix 2: Genetics Problems. Appendix 3: Terms of Orientation In and Around the Animal Body.