Laboratory 9: Biological Chemicals, Nutrition, and Health

Materials

- Test tube racks

- Hot plate

- beaker

- text tubes

- onion juice

- potato juice

- distilled water

- Benedict's reagent 

- lugol's iodine

- Sudan III

- flour extracts

- cream

- coconut

- margarine

- filter paper

- pencils

- water bath

- dedicated Pasteur pipet

- egg white

- chicken broth

- wax pencils

- biuret's agent

- CuSO4

- instant and ground coffee

- honey

- olive oil

- peanut oil

- candy

- lite and regular pancake syrup

- gelatin

Exercises

- Test for carbohydrates, proteins, and fats in food

- Test for different chemicals

- Learn how the tests are different

- Understand how to use the computer and different software to asses the quality of your diet and favorite foods

- Find the percentage of your diet that composed of the major food groups

- Analyze food labels and figure out what a packaged food item really contains 

Laboratory 8: Gel Electrophoresis and Proteins

Materials:
-Procell electrophoresis apparatus
-Combs
-Gel molds
-Power units
-Buffers
-Gels
-Beads
-String

Exercises:
- Understand sickle cell anemia
- Understand what sickle cell anemia looks like
- Understand Transcription and Translation
- Understand where transcription and translation occurs
- Understand RNA, DNA, tRNA, and mRNA
- Understand the structure of a protein

Laboratory 7: Onion DNA Preparation

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

Laboratory 6: Genetic Architecture and Karyology

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)

Laboratory 4: Diffusion and Osmosis

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

Laboratory 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

Laboratory 2: The Microscope

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.

Laboratory #1 Scientific Method Lab

Materials:
- Blind
- Coin
- Computer
- Data Sheet

Exercises:
- Perform an experiment on Therapeutic Touch
- Test hypothesis that humans have energy fields
- Test hypothesis that humans can identify energy fields