Welcome to our lab section! Please refer back here throughout the year as we continue on with our course. I will be adding links to help you do your best on the AP lab section.
Here are links for how to keep a lab notebook:
1. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/tools/notebook/notebook.html
2. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/BiologyLaboratoryNotebooks.pdf
Gizmos!
This site requires a login and classcode
Exploring Evolution weblab "Mystery of the Whales"
A quick lab reviewing evidence for evolution that can be utilized to solve a mystery
Classzone - Online tutorials and weblabs
AP Blast! Lab resources
"Comparing DNA sequences to understand Evolutionary relationships with Blast" (bioinformatics)
Virtual labs for specific chapters in MADER's Biology AP ed. McGraw- Hill
NIH Using technology to study cellular and molecular biology
The Science Of Soil
http://www.explorelearning.com/
http://www2.edc.org/weblabs/ExploringEvolution/ExploringEvolutionMenu.html
http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/bio_09/book_home.htm?state=NY
1. Entrez Gene http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene
2. BLAST site http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
These are the two main sites you will need to complete the AP lab investigation 3.The gene files needed are listed below. Download and save them. DO NOT try to open them. Instead, upload them onto the Blast website. See our lab packet for further instructions.
For a great quick (10 min) tutorial and review of how to use the site, please visit:Bozeman Biology Comparing DNA sequences
(click on the link)
Another tutorial (about 8 min) from John Hopkins University on YouTube, visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXEpBnUbAMo
http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0076611841/student_view0/virtual_labs.html
https://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih4/technology/activities/activities_toc.html
http://www.thescienceofsoil.com/
http://soilweb.landfood.ubc.ca/youth/research-projects/critters-beneath-our-feet
http://content.ces.ncsu.edu/soil-fertility-on-organic-farms.pdf
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/index.html
Soil for youth!
Soil CEC and pH calculations
Diffusion lab and water potential doc\