An Introductory Biology Lab that uses Enzyme Histochemistry to Teach Students about Skeletal Muscle Fiber Types
One important goal of introductory biology laboratory experiences is to engage students directly in all steps in the process of scientific discovery. Even when laboratory experiences are built on prin...

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Applying the Learning Cycle Approach to Digestive Systems and the Principles of Structure-Function and Unity with Diversity
The three parts of the learning-cycle strategy student exploration, concept formation, and concept application are the framework on which student understanding of 1 the interrelation of structure and ...

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Bioenergetics: Energy flow, secondary production, and ecological efficiencies of Madagascan cockroaches
This lab exercise tests the ecological principle of energy flow in a laboratory setting using roaches as an experimental secondary producer. Energy use is measured by respiration, energy storage by gr...

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Building a polygraph to teach physiology
This exercise is designed to test students’ knowledge of physiograph equipment (here MacLab) at the end of a semester of training. In order to construct a polygraph, the equipment must be set up to co...

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Chemical Communication in Cockroaches
Use to develop experimental design of sex pheromone concentrations, and observing courtship behavior of cockroaches. This may be used in entomology or physiology laboratory classes.

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Chromatophores and Color Change in Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)
This exercise was designed to have students 1) observe a physiological color change in whole organisms, and 2) correlate the color change (in vivo) with the responses occurring at the cellular level (...

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Color Control in Shrimp
This resource is a detailed manual of protocols and instructional information for carrying out an undergraduate laboratory exercise in invertebrate marine biology and physiology, including detailed st...

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Combining Inquiry- and Service-Learning Activities
The following section summarizes a combined inquiry- and service-learning activity, the diabetes project, we have developed at New Mexico State University (Preszler et al. 2005). Although the combined...

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Computer Simulations of Basic Neuronal Function
This laboratory utilizes two user-friendly computer programs from Neurosim (Biosoft, Cambridge, U.K.) that demonstrate various aspects of electrophysiological functions of neurons without sacrificing ...

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Control of Surface Exudation by Slugs
This experiment is meant to study water regulation in mollusks by observing the reaction of slugs, which are closely related to mollusks, to excess water.

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