Main description:

Everyday Biology #WHATSTHEPOINT is specifically designed for non-biology majors and will expose students to a wide array of topics such as microscopy, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, photosynthesis, cell chemistry, biotechnology, and animal diversity. Everyday Biology #WHATSTHEPOINT was written to specifically showcase how the lessons taught in lab can be used in our everyday lives.

Contents:

Meet Your Authors!
Student Science Laboratory Safety and Rules Agreement
IntroductionLab #1 Everyday Biology: What's the Point?
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Soda-Candy Collision: Using the Scientific Method
Lab #1 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #1 The Big Picture

Lab #2: Lab Equipment: Let's Get to Know Each Other!
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Using a Light Microscope: Seeing Beyond the Naked Eye
Exercise 2 Using a Spectrophotometer: Using Light to Measure!
Exercise 3 Using a Micropipette: Aliqouting Like a True Scientist!
Exercise 4 Overview of Lab Equipment: Take a Look at What's to Come
Lab #2 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #2 The Big Picture

Lab #3: Water and pH: No One Wants to Be Basic All the Time
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Cohesion and Adhesion in Plants
Exercise 2 Cohesion and Adhesion in Glass
Exercise 3 Acids and Bases
Exercise 4 The pH Scale
Exercise 5 Buffers
Lab #3 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #3 The Big Picture

Lab #4: Cell Chemistry "You Are What You Eat"!
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Determine the Sugar Content of a Beverage
Exercise 2 Determine the Presence of Fats
Exercise 3 Biuret Test for Protein Concentration
Lab #4 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #4 The Big Picture

Lab #5: Enzymes: Always Looking for a Matching Substrate
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Jell-O and Fresh Pineapple: An Unlikely Pairing
Exercise 2 Yeast + Sugar = Ethanol Fermentation, but Only If the Substrate Fits!
Exercise 3 Amylase and Starch: A Perfect Match!
Exercise 4 When Lemon Met Milk: Denaturing Was Inevitable
Lab #5 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #5 The Big Picture

Lab #6: Properties of the Cell Membrane: The Good, The Bad, The Selective
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Using Dialysis Tubing to Showcase Diffusion
Exercise 2 Dehydrating Potatoes
Exercise 3 Plasmolysis and Wilting in Celery
Exercise 4 What's Happening With My Blood?
Exercise 5 Let's Grow Some Fungus
Lab #6 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #6 The Big Picture

Lab #7: Cell Division: Splitting Up!
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Phases of Mitosis in Garlic Root Tip
Exercise 2 Observation of Cheek Cells
Exercise 3 Meiosis: How Are Gametes Made?
Exercise 4 Let's Grow Some Microbes!
Lab #7 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #7 The Big Picture

Lab #8 Photosynthesis: Let There Be Light!!!
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Plant Parts
Exercise 2 The Colors of Photosynthesis
Exercise 3 Consumption of CO2 and Production of O2
Lab #8 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #8 The Big Picture
Lab #9: Bacteria and Fungi: They Are All Around Us!
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 What's Growing on My Hands?
Exercise 2 What's up With the Bubbling?
Exercise 3 Photosynthetic Bacteria
Exercise 4 What's Growing on the Bread?
Exercise 5 Fungi in the Environment
Exercise 6 Rhizopus Stolonilfer: Black Bread Mold
Lab #9 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #9 The Big Picture

Lab #10: Biotechnology: How Science Helps Determine Paternity
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 DNA Fingerprinting: Solving Paternity Issues Since the 1980s
Exercise 2 Blood Typing: Thanks Mom and Dad!
Lab #10 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #10 The Big Picture

Lab #11: Biotechnology: How Science Can Prevent the Zombie Apocalypse
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Protect Yourself From Becoming a Zombie! Keep Your Fluids to Yourself!
Exercise 2 Elisa: Helping Scientists Detect Zombie Antibodies!
Exercise 3 Strawberry DNA: So That's What DNA Looks Like!
Lab #11 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #11 The Big Picture

Lab #12: Simple Inheritance: Where'd You Get Those Genes?
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Here Kitty Kitty
Exercise 2 How Did Molly Get So Cute?
Exercise 3 What Are the Odds?
Lab #12 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #12 The Big Picture

Lab #13: Eukarya Domain: Animalia Kingdom
Objectives
Key Terms
A Little Bit of Background
Exercise 1 Phyla Survey
Exercise 2 Taxonomy
Exercise 3 Muscles and Nerves
Exercise 4 Let's Dissect a Frog!
Lab #13 What's the Point: Analysis and Conclusions
Lab #13 The Big Picture