COURSE SYLLABUS
BIO 111 GENERAL BIOLOGY LABORATORY
SPRING SEMESTER 2007
Room BS 202
Graduate Assistants: Section 001 W 9-10:50 Yang Yang ([email protected])
Section 002 W 11-12:50 Yang Yang (
[email protected])
Section 003 W 1- 2:50 Sara Cilles (
[email protected])
Section 004 W 3- 4:50 Sara Cilles (
[email protected])
Coordinator: Dr. John P. Seabolt
223 Morgan Biology Bldg.
257-7652
[email protected]Course Description: Laboratory studies in the structure and function of cells, plants,
animals, ecology, heredity, and evolution. Prereq. or coreq. Bio 103. One semester hour
credit.
Instructional Materials: (Required)
Perry and Morton. Photographic Atlas for Biology, Wadsworth Publishing Co. 1996.
Bio 111 General Biology Laboratory Manual, 2006-7, University or Kennedy’s Bookstore
COURSE REQUIREMENTS, EVALUATION PROCEDURES, AND POLICIES
Grading:
Pre-lab Quizzes11@10pts 110
Lab. Reports10 @ 20pts. 200
Homework 5 @ 25 pts. 125
Disease Paper 25
Total 460
Grade Assignment:
412-460 A
365-411 B
320-364 C
275-319 D
<275 E
Attendance:
Class attendance IS required.
ANY STUDENT WHO CEASES TO ATTEND CLASS, WITHOUT
WITHDRAWING, REGARDLESS OF ACCUMULATED POINTS, WILL
RECEIVE AN “E” FOR THE COURSE.
Failure to attend a laboratory without an officially recognized excuse will result in the loss
of 20 points from total accumulation, plus loss of exercise points of 20 points and any
additional points accumulated during the missed session.
AN INDIVIDUAL WITH ABSENCES THAT MEET OR EXCEED 20% OF THE
SCHEDULED CLASS MEETINGS OF BIO 111, REGARDLESS OF REASON,
WILL BE REQUIRED TO DROP THE COURSE OR RECEIVE A GRADE OF
“E”. This a University policy, thus the academic ombudsman will enforce. For Bio
111, 20% of class meetings is 3. Please consult the web site: http://www.uky.edu/
StudentAffairs/Code2/part2.htm
Last day to drop the course without it appearing on your transcript is January 31, 2007.
Last day to drop the course with a grade of “W” on your transcript is March 9, 2007.
Tardiness:
TEN (10) points will be deducted from total course points for each tardy.
Make-Up Policy:
Because of space and time constraints, it is not often feasible to maintain materials and
equipment for a particular lab once it is completed. If you miss a lab OR if you know in
advance you must miss a lab, please notify your instructor. Regardless, it is the student’s
responsibility to learn the missed information and to complete any assignments. It is not the
instructor’s responsibility to remind the student to do so.
Any makeup labs must be accompanied by an officially recognized excuse via a
written format. See Student Handbook as to what is deemed a recognizable excuse. If
a student can not attend another section and he/she has a valid excuse, make up labs
will occur on these designated days and time: Feb. 2, Mar, 8 and Apr. 20 at 1pm.
Failure to makeup a lab with an excused absence or absence without a valid excuse
will result in “0” zero points being assigned.
There will be NO lab makeups after APRIL 20.. Therefore, NO MAKEUPS after final
grades are reported. It is the student’s responsibility to be accountable.
Late Work:
Laboratory work is due at the end of each class. Your grade on the exercise will reflect
what you have correctly completed. Written exercises and homework are due on the
scheduled days. Credit will not be given exercises turned in later than 24 hours after the
laboratory class. Homework/disease paper turned in after the scheduled day will receive no
credit, unless there is an excused absence.
FOR EXCUSED absences, any homework/papers are due upon the day of return to class.
Otherwise, zero (0) points will be assigned.
Cheating and Plagiarism:
Cheating and/or plagiarism will not be tolerated in this course. For additional information
or examples of these offenses, please refer to the Student Rights and Responsibilities
Handbook or visit UK’s on line version:
http://www.uky.edu/Student Affairs/Code/part2.html. The minimum penalty for these
academic offenses is failure in the course.
BIO 111
COURSE SCHEDULE
SPRING SEMESTER 2007
BS 202
Date Topic Manual Atlas Other
01/10 Course Introduction
Microscopy I 01-13 1-4
http://www.udel.edu/Biology/ketcham/microscope/scope.html
01/17 Microscopy II * and Science as a Way of Knowing
Complete Assignment 1 (Science as a Way of Knowing) at the following website
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/terry.derting/ccli/cclihomepage.html
#Pre-Lab Quiz
01/24 Scientific Method* 14-28 Assign Homework
http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/bio1int.htm - good tutorial on scientific method under the
chemistry topical listing
#Pre-lab Quiz (Microscopy and Scientific Method)
01/31 Cell Structure* 29-39 5-9 Homework Due
http://www.enchantedlearning.com pp.26-28
#Pre-lab Quiz Assign Disease Paper
LAB MAKEUP FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES, FEB. 2 at 1PM
02/7 Cell Cycle* 40-51 10-13 Assign S.I.U.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cell_cycle/cells3.html pp.74-86
#Pre-lab Quiz
02/14 Genetics I* 52-73 Assign Homework
http://www.ksu.edu/biology/pob/genetics/intro.htm
Complete Self-Instructional Unit on Punnett Squares-see Green/Yellow Manual
#Pre-lab Quiz
02/21 Genetics II 74-103 Homework Due
#Pre-Lab Quiz pp.89-92
Assign Homework
02/28 Taxonomy/Classification* 149-164 Reminder of Paper
#Pre-lab Quiz Homework Due
pp. 100-103
03/06 Diversity of Life 128-145 16-53
Video: Classification: Bringing Order to Diversity
http://www.sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/Eukarya
#Pre-lab Quiz
03/13 SPRING BREAK ENJOY
03/20 Diversity: Insects 147- 148 Assign Homework
Blake Newton, Entomologist
LAB MAKEUP FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES, MAR. 22 at 1PM
03/27 Diversity of Life* continued 135-145 Homework Due
pp. 147-148
#Pre-lab Quiz Reminder of Paper
04/04 Population Ecology* 165-180 Assign Virtual Labs
Disease Paper Due 192-195 and Written Exs.
#Pre-lab Quiz Dz. Paper Due
04/11 Molecular Labs* 104-127 Written Exercises Due.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sheppard/analyze.html pp. 112-113; 115-116 .
Perform Parts I, II, and III Assign Final Homework
Perform all of the DNA Workshop Activity
Read about Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin
Complete Study Outline, submit to TA on 4/11
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/
Click on Transgenic Fly Lab which is located on right side
Perform the virtual exercises
Complete Study outline, submit to TA on 4/11
04/18 Effect..Bacteria...Agents 181-191 Homework Due
http://www. bact.wisc.edu/microtextbook/controlgrowth/ pp. 179-80
Video: Antibiotics
#Pre-lab Quiz
LAB MAKEUP FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES, APR. 20 at 1PM
04/25 Previous Lab Followup*
Video: Rationale Antibiotic Use
Course Evaluation
Good-bye and Best Wishes
Coordinator reserves the right to modify/revise the schedule and/or exercises as
deemed necessary.
Completed laboratory exercises are due at the end of each laboratory session.
Assigned HOMEWORK and Disease Paper are due at the beginning of the designated
laboratory session.
*denotes laboratory exercise to be graded.
#denotes pre-lab Quiz, mostly over lab for THAT day, unless specified
