H. LABORATORY NOTEBOOK (MANUAL).

Students will be required to complete the questions and laboratory reports for each of the laboratory exercises in the laboratory notebook. These exercises are generally experimental in nature although a few are descriptive and require the student to deduct functional biological processes from observations in macromolecular and cellular structure and form. The laboratory exercises are designed to give students an opportunity to test experimentally an hypothesis of a biological process. 

These exercises are relatively simple and provide data that can be entered by the student in the appropriate blank sections of the notebook. The data generated by these exercises are varied in nature and provide students with an opportunity for numerical problem solving, graphical presentation and interpretation and statistical evaluation. 

Students will be expected to enter their data and finish their report during each laboratory period and demonstrate that the assignment has been completed to the instructor before leaving class. The notebooks will be collected four times during the course for grading. Students will be expected to attend all laboratories and will be responsible for completing all laboratory notebook exercises. The completed laboratory notebook must be submitted for grading after the final exam has been given. In the event that a student is absent from class, it is the responsibility of the student to obtain a copy of the missing data from the instructor in order to complete and submit the missing exercise for grading by the next grading deadline.


I. LABORATORY REPORT:                         Check out the Lab report Guidelines

In addition to the laboratory notebook, each student will be required to produce an extended report on one of the exercises undertaken in class. The exercise will be chosen by the instructor and announced at the beginning of the semester. It will be a "take-home" assignment. Guidelines for this extended laboratory report are given in the back of the Laboratory Manual and as an attachment to this syllabus.