BIOLOGY 305 LAB COMPARATIVE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY

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BIOLOGY 305 LABCOMPARATIVE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY

• REAGAN LAKE
• LAB INSTRUCTOR
• SPRING 2006

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Reagan Lake
• Office BS Room 454
• Phone [phone]
• Email lake1_at_umbc.edu

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LAB LECTURE

• Instruction on lab exercises
• Background information, concepts theory
• Answer questions pertaining to lab

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RULES REGULATIONS

• Lab Safety
• No open toed shoes
• No food or drink in lab
• Wear goggles gloves when asked to do so

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ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY

• Lab
• NEED university approved excuse to attend another
  lab section -AND-
• A Permission to Attend Another Laboratory Form,
• filled out signed by your TA
• Lab Lecture
• Attendance counts! 3 absences F
• Exams
• Check your schedule NOW and clear it!

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GRADES

• Lab Quizzes
• Based on both new old material
• ½ Qs based on lab to be completed
• ½ Qs from previous lab
• Best 5 of 6 quizzes will count towards final
  grade
• Ten minutes late to lab?miss quiz (no makeup!)
• Total of 50 pts.

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GRADES

• Lab Practical
• Third week of labs (Feb 20 - 24)
• Consists of hands-on exercises (computer)
• Worth 20 pts
• Open lab hours will assist you in preparation

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GRADES

• Lab Reports
• Based on data gathered in lab
• First report
• 50 pts
• Second report
• 75 pts

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GRADES

• Lab Notebook Exercises
• Data sheets turned in at end of every lab
• May include calculations, answers to questions
• Work in groups but answer questions turn in
  INDIVIDUALLY
• Ten exercises at 5 points each 50 pts

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GRADES

• Exams
• Cover material from lab and lab lectures
• One midterm and one final exam
• Final is NOT cumulative!
• Each worth 100 pts for a total of 200 pts

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GRADES

• Lab Lecture
• Points for attendance/simple quizzes
• Occasional in class exercises
• Worth total of 35 pts

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GRADES

• Overall grade based on
• Lab Quizzes (5 of 6) 50
• Animal Care Use Paper 20
• Lab Practical 20
• Lab Reports(2) 125
• Lab Notebook (10) 50
• Exams (2) 200
• Lab Lecture Quiz/Attendance 35
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  500

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REGRADE POLICY

• WRITTEN requests only!!!
• Download Fill out Request For Regrade Form
• Deadline one week after the return of material
• Be specific about what you want evaluated
• Provide evidence
• Be Warned entire exercise may be re-graded

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OPEN LAB HOURS

• Will be announced in lab next week
• Labs staffed by TAs
• Time to get questions answered
• Prepare for lab practical

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COURSE WEB SITE

• URL http//www.umbc.edu/bioclass/biol305l/
• Contains
• Syllabus
• Announcements
• Laboratory exercises
• Previous exams
• Power point lecture notes
• Download lab exercise for upcoming week
• NEW version ONLY (throw out anything printed
  before today!)
• Print out bring to lab with you!!!!
• Use to study for lab quizzes

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MATERIALS FOR THE COURSE

• Textbook 5th Edition Animal Physiology by
• Eckert
• Recommended
• Carbon Copy Lab Notebook
• Mandatory bring to next lab!
• Available in Bookstore
• No Lab Manual for Course!

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USE OF ANIMALS IN THE LAB

• Humane Treatment
• Animal Care Use Protocols
• Anesthesia
• Minimize numbers through sharing
• Use of computer simulations

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USE OF ANIMALS IN THE LAB

• Assignment 1 Animal Care Use Report
• Justify use of Animals in the Teaching Laboratory
  
• Citations
• In text AND full bibliography
• See course web site for proper citation format
  concerns regarding plagiarism
• Focus on use of animals in education teaching
  (NOT research!)
• Spelling, grammar organization COUNT!

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CLEAN UP

• Wash dry instruments before leaving lab
• Wash, clean arrange materials/instruments as
  you found them
• One member of group responsible for a clean up
• Turn in checklist to TA before leaving lab
• Leaving w/out permission or without turning in
  checklist loss of points for the exercise

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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

• We take academic integrity seriously!
• Cheating will NOT be tolerated
• Copying on exams or quizzes

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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

• Plagiarism
• Use of anothers thoughts, ideas or words without
  giving proper credit.
• See Plagiarism Link on web site
• Future work submitted through TurnItIn.com

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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

• Plagiarism
• An Excerpt From Your Textbook
• Behavior results when a signal travels from a
  sensory receptor, through some number of synapses
  in the central nervous system, and out through a
  motor neuron, activating skeletal muscles. Even
  in the simplest neuronal circuits, information
  coming both from other neurons in the same part
  of the nervous system and from neurons with
  somata in distant locations impinges on the
  circuit and can modify the behavioral output.

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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

• Plagiarism
• In Text Citations
• Behavior in animals is the result of a complex
  web of interconnected neurons communicating with
  one another (Randall et al. 2002).
• A behavioral response to a stimulus often
  involves multiple neurons, each of which may have
  numerous inputs (Randall et al. 2002).
• Bibliography
• Randall, D., W. Burggren, and K. French. 2002.
  Behavior Initiation, Patterns, and Control. pp
  425 470 In Animal Physiology Mechanisms and
  Adaptations (J. Noe, M. Ryan, J. ONeill M.
  Kuhta, editors), W.H. Freeman and Company, New
  York.

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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

• Plagiarism
• Animal Care Use Reports
• Proper use of scientific literature
• Lab Reports
• Lab partners beware!
• TurnItIn.com
• In Class Assignments
• Lab Notebook Exercises

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LAB INSTRUMENTS

• Dissection Tools
• Dissecting microscope
• Scissors
• Tweezers
• Forceps
• Scalpel
• Use these tools carefully
• You are financially responsible for them!

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LAB INSTRUMENTS

• Computerized Hardware
• iWorx
• Amplifier
• Digitizer
• Transducers
• Electrodes
• Stimulators
• PCs
• Computerized Software
• Labscribe

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NEXT WEEK IN LABINSTRUMENTATION

• Exercise 1
• Pulse Transducer

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NEXT WEEK IN LAB INSTRUMENTATION

• Exercise 1 The Pulse Transducer
• What is a Pulse Transducer?
• Flow of Information
• Analog vs. Digital signals
• Sampling Frequency
• Nyquist Frequency
• Aliasing

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NEXT WEEK IN LAB INSTRUMENTATION

• Exercise 1 The Pulse Transducer
• The Output
• Amplitude
• Frequency
• Period