GENERAL LAB INFORMATION AND MATERIALS

AP Biology Inquiry Labs:

Intro to Inquiry - here we will execute our first inquiry lab, designing experiments to test abiotic factors on the hatching of brine shrimp.

Animal Behavior - taxis and kinesis will be examined in meal worms under varying environmental conditions

Diffusion and Osmosis - we will examine the net movement of water across a semipermeable membrane given various cellular environments

Photosynthesis - the rate of photosynthesis will be measured using spinach leaf discs

Chi Square - we will learn and practice the technique in a simple statistical model

Virtual Fly Lab - we will examine patterns of inheritance in drosophila as a model system

Bacterial Transformation - we will apply basic biotechnology techniques to transform bacteria to express pGLO (glow in the dark!) DNA.

BLAST Lab - we will use sequence information from multiple species and bioinformatics software to test hypotheses about the relationship between aquatic mammals and their potential ancestral relationship to land mammals.

Transpiration - we will investigate the effects of various environmental conditions on the rates of transpiration in plants.

Circulatory Physiology Lab - we will examine the effects of various parameters on heart rate and blood pressure.