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This text serves as an excellent
introduction to the stunning diversity of organisms with
which we share our planet, couched within
careful analysis of
scientific reasoning, and teaches students the
fundamental principles of ecology and evolution. Each lab
has an Outline, a “Why” (why this topic is important),
“Learning Objectives” (what you are supposed to learn),
“Performance Criteria” (what you’ll be graded on),
“Resources”, “Prerequisites”, and “Vocabulary”. |
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 Preface |
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In BIO 201 you will use
observation and experimentation to help you learn scientific principles
important to biology. You will learn about evolution, diversity of living
organisms, and how all of life’s diversity has evolved to solve the same
problems of survival such as growth, reproduction, movement, and feeding.
You will also learn how organisms interact with each other, how they depend
on each other, and how they depend on and affect their environment.
This book will help students to:
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Identify, characterize, and classify an organism.
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Make reasonable predictions about where an organism can be
found and its possible relationship to the environment.
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Design, monitor and document experiments, observations,
procedures, results, and conclusions from research projects.
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Understand the role of the scientific method in the
design and execution of experiments.
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Plan and monitor research projects.
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Use laboratory tools and analytical techniques to increase
the understanding of biology.
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Table
of Contents:
Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
General
Information
Lab Grading
Policies
Structure of BIO
201 Lab Exercises
Building Skills
for Professional Careers
Lab Reports
Improving Your
Performance in BIO 201
Labs
Lab 1 —
Systematics
Lab 2 — Ecology
Lab 3 — Greenhouse
Lab 4 — Animals I
Lab 5 — Animals II
Lab 6 —
Deuterostomes
Lab 7 — Behavior
Lab 8 —
Populations
Lab 9 — Structural
Diversity in Plants
Lab 10 — Current
Scientific Inquiries
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