Laboratory NotesforBiology 1003, Survey of the Living World
John H. Wahlert, Mary Jean Holland, Joan Japha and Donald McClelland© 10 February 2013, John H. Wahlert, Mary Jean Holland, Joan Japha, & Donald McClelland Note: Please look at your course syllabus to see which labortory exercises you will need. GOALS AND POLICIES FOR BIO 1003 (PDF file) Review the BIOLOGY LAB SAFETY TUTORIAL and check your knowledge with the quizzes (not for a grade). TABLE OF CONTENTSCLASSIFICATION
MEASUREMENT USE OF THE MICROSCOPE ORGANIC MOLECULES DIFFUSION AND OSMOSIS pH ENZYMES ENERGY PRODUCTION BY CATABOLISM FOOD LOG PHOTOSYNTHESIS CELL CYCLE AND MITOSIS MEIOSIS handout (a pdf file) GENETICS GENE PROBLEMS EVOLUTION ECOLOGY MYSTERY SPORE REPORT: Grading rubric (opens in a new web page) DOMAIN ARCHAEA DOMAIN BACTERIA DOMAIN EUKARYA KINGDOM FUNGI ALGAE Bryophyte Divisions MARCHANTIOPHYTA AND BRYOPHYTA PLANT STRUCTURE Division PTEROPHYTA Division CONIFEROPHYTA (Gymnosperms) Division ANTHOPHYTA TISSUES AND ORGAN SYSTEMS Phylum CNIDARIA Phylum PLATYHELMINTHES Phylum MOLLUSCA Phylum ANNELIDA Phylum ARTHROPODA Daphnia experiment Phylum CHORDATA Comparison template for Animalia (.doc file) ADDITIONAL LABORATORY EXERCISES FOR BIO 3001 POPULATION DYNAMICS SURVIVORSHIP MARK, RELEASE, RECAPTUREESTIMATING POPULATION SIZE FOOD WEBS All photographs were taken by John H. Wahlert unless credited to another source. Lecture handout on Charles Darwin. Return to Department of Natural Sciences It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, form the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. (p. 489-490) Darwin, Charles. 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London, John Murray. [1964 facsimile edition, Harvard Univ. Press.] last updated 4 February 2013 (jhw) |