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Student Laboratory Manual Biology 1407 Austin Community College Introduction This manual is intended to be primarily an electronic document available on-line. It should be viewed and printed as needed by individual students. Its production has been supported by Austin Community College and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Our approach in this manual is different from most traditional manuals. We assume that students will work in small groups (“teams”) rather than individually. We expect sharing and pooling of data both within a group and among groups, not individual reports of measurements. Tasks are not presented as techniques to be demonstrated (like recipes to be followed) but rather as group projects to be executed and communicated (like banquets to be served and eaten). Since Biology 1407 has an extremely challenging prerequisite (Biology 1406), we want this course to reinforce, expand and practice skills already present in students’ intellectual toolboxes. Students are expected to “bring to the table” all these skills: basic use of light microscope including quantitative measurements, micro-liter scale volumetric measurements, preparation of chemical solutions and quantitative dilution techniques, usage of electronic spreadsheets, basic graphing and data analysis (including linear regression). Various places in this manual refer students to their Biology 1406 laboratory manual for review. (That manual, like this one, is available on-line.) We also assume that (modest) modern computer-based tools will be available in labs. These tools include: computers with word processing and spreadsheet software, live internet connections at high speed, microscopes with digital photo microscopy. Our students should learn to think of these as fundamental tools in biological research. Each exercise is presented in three parts. Part 1 is a very brief introduction to the exercise. Part 2 is a series of things to complete on line before class mee