BIOL3650L Course Schedule - Fall 2011

Date

Lab Topic/Dissection

Readings/Handouts

8/17

Lab 1 - General laboratory introduction
 

• Class syllabus

• Lab manual: Introduction

• Terminology sheet

8/24

Lab 2 - Biophysics, Part I

YOU MUST BRING YOUR COMPUTER TO LAB THIS WEEK

Handouts - posted on GAView read BEFORE coming to lab

You should also read the sections in McMillan on writing a lab report (chapter 3 and 4).

9/1

Lab 3 - Skeletal systems
Organisms:

• Slides of vertebrate bone

• Owl pellet bones

• Shark

• Mudpuppy

• Cat

• Human

• Bird

Lab manual: Ch 5 (general info on the skeleton), 16 (shark), 25 (mudpuppy), & 34 (cat)

Handouts

• Reading for lab is posted in GAView - you should read this before coming to lab

• ID sheet

• Report sheet

Lab review page

Assignments due in this lab

Biophysics report sheet

9/7

Assignments due in this lab

Skeleton measurement report sheet

9/14

Lab 5 - External anatomy, initial skinning

• Organisms:

  • Shark

  • Mudpuppy

Lab manual: Ch 6, 15, 17, 24, & 26

• Basic Muscle Terminology

• Lab manual: Ch 6 (know the terminology from this chapter), 17 & 26

• Shark skinning protocol

• Mudpuppy skinning protocol

• Identification sheet

• Lab review pages

  • Shark muscles

Assignments due in this lab

• Biophysics lab report

9/21

Lab Practical I

Lab 6 - Shark and mudpuppy muscles

• Organisms

  • Shark

  • Mudpuppy

• ID sheet

• Protocol for viewing shark muscles

• There is also a quiz in GAView that you must complete before this lab

• Lab review page on mudpuppy muscles

• Lab review page on shark muscles

• Dissection rubric - this is what I will be using to grade your dissections.  Your overall average on the dissections will determine your dissection points.

10/5

• Lab manual: Ch 35

• Lab review page

• Superficial muscle protocol

• Deep muscle protocol

• ID sheet (same for lab 7 and 8)

Friday 10/8/10 - Last day to withdraw without academic penalty

10/12

• Lab manual: Ch 35
• The list of items to ID is the same as the previous week

10/19

10/26

Lab 9 - Respiratory and Circulatory Systems
Organisms:

• Shark

• Mudpuppy

• Cat

• Sheep heart

• Lab manual: 19, 21, 28, 30, 37, and 39

• Lab review page

• ID sheet

11/2

Organisms;

• Shark
• Mudpuppy
• Cat

• Lab manual : 19, 20, 28, 29, 37, and 38
• Lab review page
• Handouts
  • ID sheet

lab 11 - Nervous and sensory systems
Organisms:

• Shark

• Sheep eye

• Sheep brain

• Lab manual: 22 and 40

• Lab review page

• Handouts

  • ID sheet

Lab Exam III - Last day of lab