Description

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
  Prelab 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