Laboratory Manual

by Darrell S. Vodopich and Randy Moore

Supplement: Resource Guide for Laboratory Preparation

The up-to-date, authoritative Biology Laboratory Manual is an excellent complement to Biology, Fourth Edition, by Raven and Johnson. In revising it, WCB/McGraw-Hill has paid special attention to how the manual can make it easy for you to plan and execute dynamic lab investigations.

Listed below are eight specific ways this manual is constructed to help you lead a first-rate laboratory course.

• 1. It's supported by a complete Resource Guide for Laboratory Preparation. See the previous section in this kit for a description of and sample from the Resource Guide. With this comprehensive Resource Guide for Laboratory Preparation, you'll have ready-to-go ideas and instructions for putting the Biology Laboratory Manual to use in your laboratory course.

• 2. A correlation table makes it simple to use this manual in conjunction with your textbook. At the beginning of the manual is a table correlating the exercises in Biology Laboratory Manual with specific chapters from leading general biology textbooks-including Biology, Fourth Edition, by Raven and Johnson.

• 3. Full-color customization capabilities make this the most flexible lab manual available. This lab manual is fully customizable-by chapter, in color-so you can have precisely the exercises you want to use in your lab course, with the full-color impact of the complete manual.

• 4. It is a colorful, expertly illustrated manual, to reinforce the concepts you're investigating. This manual's new design-now in full color, with more illustrations than ever before-helps you visually clarify and illustrate concepts under examination.

• 5. This truly comprehensive manual contains a wide range of current exercises to suit your laboratory. Five new labs (exercises 14, 15, 35, 36, and 44)-covering human evolution, ecology, human biology, and animal behavior-give this up-to-date manual greater breadth and depth, so you have a comprehensive selection of labs from which to choose for your lab course.

• 6. Special sections give you extra help in fostering critical student skills-writing and critical thinking. End-of-exercise "Writing to Learn Biology" and "Doing Biology Yourself" sections reinforce your efforts to give your students writing and critical-thinking practice.

• 7. Logical arrangement makes it easy to plan and execute each exercise. The manual's systematic organization-constructed around Objectives, numbered Procedures, Summary, and Questions for Further Thought and Study-clearly delininates the course of action you might take for each laboratory.

• 8. Three appendixes serve as an at-hand reference guide for your students. One of the appendixes included is new-Appendix II, Classification of Organisms.

Contents

• Preface
• Correlation Table to Biology Laboratory Manual
• 1 The Microscope: Basic Skills of Light Microscopy
• 2 The Cell: Structure and Function
• 3 Biologically Important Molecules: Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids, and Nucleic Acids
• 4 Diffusion and Osmosis: Passive Movement of Molecules in Biological Systems
• 5 Cellular Membranes: Effects of Physical and Chemical Stress
• 6 Enzymes: Factors Affecting Rate of Activity
• 7 Respiration: Aerobic and Anaerobic Oxidation of Organic Molecules
• 8 Photosynthesis: Pigment Separation, Starch Production, and CO2 Uptake
• 9 Mitosis: Replication of Eukaryotic Cells
• 10 Meiosis: Reduction Division and Gametogenesis
• 11 Molecular Biology and Biotechnology: DNA Isolation and Bacterial Transformation
• 12 Genetics: The Principles of Mendel
• 13 Evolution: Natural Selection and Morphological Change in Green Algae
• 14 Human Evolution: Skull Examination
• 15 Ecology: Diversity and Interaction in Plant Communities
• 16 Population Growth: Limitations of the Environment
• 17 Pollution: The Effects of Chemical, Thermal, and Acid Pollution
• 18 Survey of Bacteria: Kingdoms Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
• 19 Survey of the Kingdom Protista: The Algae
• 20 Survey of the Kingdom Protista: Protozoa and Slime Molds
• 21 Survey of the Kingdom Fungi: Molds, Sac Fungi, Mushrooms, and Lichens
• 22 Survey of the Plant Kingdom: Liverworts, Mosses, and Hornworts of Phyla Hepaticophyta, Bryophyta, and Anthocerophyta
• 23 Survey of the Plant Kingdom: Seedless Vascular Plants of Phyla Pterophyta, Lycophyta, Psilophyta, and Sphenophyta
• 24 Survey of the Plant Kingdom: Gymnosperms of Phyla Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, Coniferophyta, and Gnetophyta
• 25 Survey of the Plant Kingdom: Angiosperms
• 26 Plant Anatomy: Vegetative Structure of Vascular Plants
• 27 Plant Physiology: Transpiration
• 28 Plant Physiology: Tropisms, Nutrition, and Growth Regulators
• 29 Survey of the Animal Kingdom: Phyla Porifera and Cnidaria
• 30 Survey of the Animal Kingdom: Phyla Platyhelminthes and Nematoda
• 31 Survey of the Animal Kingdom: Phyla Mollusca and Annelida
• 32 Survey of the Animal Kingdom: Phylum Arthropoda
• 33 Survey of the Animal Kingdom: Phyla Echinodermata, Hemichordata, and Chordata
• 34 Vertebrate Animal Tissues: Epithelial, Connective, Muscular, and Nervous Tissues
• 35 Human Biology: The Human Skeletal System
• 36 Human Biology: Muscles and Muscle Contraction
• 37 Human Biology: Breathing
• 38 Human Biology: Circulation and Blood Pressure
• 39 Human Biology: Sensory Perception
• 40 Vertebrate Anatomy: External Features and Skeletal System of the Rat
• 41 Vertebrate Anatomy: Muscles and Internal Organs of the Rat
• 42 Vertebrate Anatomy: Urogenital and Circulatory Systems of the Rat
• 43 Embryology: Comparative Morphologies and Strategies of Development
• 44 Animal Behavior: Taxis, Kinesis, and Agonistic Behavior
• Optional Exercises
  • A Separating Organic Compounds: Column Chromatography, Paper Chromatography, and Gel Electrophoresis
  • B Spectrophotometry
  • C Bioassay: Measuring Physiologically Active Substances
  • D Dissection of a Fetal Pig
  • E Community Succession
• Appendixes
  • I Measurements in Science: The Metric System
  • II Classification of Organisms Discussed in ThisLaboratory Manual
  • III How to Write a Scientific Paper