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Advanced Biology Printed Manual Only
Apex Learning customers will have a digital manual provided through their online system. This PRINTED manual is available as a convenience for use with the Quality Science Labs Advanced Biology kit for Apex Learning and is optional for Apex customers.
This manual covers all the new 2012 requirements from the College Board®. The manual will lead your students through eight advanced placement level labs as listed below
Lab Titles:
Lab 1: Diffusion, Osmosis and their connection to transpiration in plants
Pre lab Questions
Lab 1.1: Surface Area and Cell Size
Lab 1.2: Part 1 - Modeling Diffusion and Osmosis
Part 2 - Observing Osmosis
Part 3 - Student Guided Inquiry, Water Potential in Plant Tissues
Lab 2: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium: Modeling Allele Frequencies in Populations
Pre-lab and Questions: Estimating Allele Frequencies
Lab 2.1: A Micro-Evolution Simulation
Lab 2.2: Part 1 - Estimating Allele Frequencies Tutorial
Part 2 - Student Guided Inquiry
Lab 3: Comparing DNA Sequences (BLAST)
Pre-lab and Questions: Cladograms
Lab 3.1: Part 1 - BLAST Practice
Part 2 - Student Guided Inquiry
Lab 4: Cell Division: Mitosis and Meiosis
Pre-lab and Questions: Loss of Cell Cycle Control in Cancer
Lab 4.1 Part 1 - Environmental Effects on Mitosis
Part 2 - Student Guided Inquiry
Lab 4.2 Meiosis and Crossing Over in Sordaria
Lab 5 Enzyme Activity
Pre-lab Questions
Lab 5.1: Enzyme Specificity
Lab 5.2: Enzyme Rate of Reaction Assay and Baseline
Lab 5.3 Part 1 - Determining the Effect of pH on Enzymatic Activity
Part 2 - Student Guided Inquiry
Lab 6 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Pre Lab and Questions
Part A Photosynthesis
Part B Cellular Respiration
Lab 6.1 Part 1 - Floating Leaf Disk
Part 2 - Cellular Respiration
Part 3 - Student Guided Inquiry
Lab 7 Biotechnology: Bacterial Transformation
Pre-lab and Questions: Genetic Engineering
Lab 7.1: Part 1 - Bacterial Transformation
Part 2 - Student Guided Inquiry
Lab 7.2: Calculating Transformation Efficiency
Lab 8 Energy Dynamics
Pre-lab Questions
Lab 8.1 Part 1 - Energy Transfer and Productivity
Part 2 - Student Guided Inquiry