Lab exercises for Biology 103

 (All exercises are in pdf format).

Lab Exercise 1:  Introduction to Graphing and Statistics-- print graph paper and "guidelines" below

Graph paper (the graph is light, just enough ink to see a grid that you can use)

Guidelines for Statistics and Graphs used in General Education Biology : bring this guide to your lab

Lab Exercise 2:    Reproductive Success in Wingstem (2 lab periods in a row)

Lab Exercise 2a:  Wingstem, analysis of data collected in previous lab

Lab Exercise 3: Wildflower Diversity and Dichotomous Keys

Lab Exercise 4: Phenotypic Plasticity (2 lab periods in a row)

Key to some campus trees – 2 pages long

Lab Exercise 4a: Phenotypic Plasticity (analysis of data collected in previous lab)

Midterm Lab -- Midterm lab Assessment

Lab Exercise 5: Environmental Preference in Pillbugs

Lab Exercise 6: A Mark-Recapture Model

Lab Exercise 7: Population Demography

                             Population Demography Purchasing Instructions

Lab Exercise 8: Evolution by Natural Selection  - A Simulation

Lab Exercise 9: Vertebrate phylogeny, based on skeletal morphology

No lab this week: Thanksgiving Break

Final Lab : Final Lab Assessment

June 9:    Soil analysis  (bring a sample of soil from your home)

June 10:  Drinking Water analysis  (bring a sample of water from your home)

Water chemistry Lab tests for Water ions

Past lab exercises:   Measuring Diversity (5 pp.)