BIOLOGY 305 LAB COMPARATIVE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY

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BIOLOGY 305 LABCOMPARATIVE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY

• Introduction To Instrumentation

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Carbon Copy Notebooks
• Required for lab THIS week
• Buy at UMBC bookstore or ONLINE
• Bring to lab EVERY week!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Lab Quizzes
• First quiz in lab NEXT week!
• ½ material from last lab, ½ from future lab
• Based on lab exercises leadoff lecture
• Lab Exercises
• Usually available Fridays online
• Print out and bring to lab with you!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• CLICKERS
• Register within Blackboard if you have never used
  pad in class before
• Bring Pads to EVERY Leadoff
• You may miss ONE without penalty
• Additional absences ? loose points

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Assignment 1 Animal Care Use Report
• Justify use of animals in teaching laboratories
• Focus on use of animals in education teaching
• NOT research!
• Due AS YOU WALK IN THE DOOR to lab
• Bring a printed (hard copy) of paper AND a
  printed receipt from Turnitin.com
• NO late submissions accepted

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Assignment 1 Animal Care Use Report
• Worth 25 pts
• Minimum of 2 scientific references
• Citations
• In text AND full bibliography
• See course web site for proper citation format
  concerns regarding plagiarism
• Spelling, grammar organization COUNT!

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LAB INSTRUMENTS

• Dissection Tools
• Use these tools carefully
• You are financially responsible for them!

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LAB INSTRUMENTS

• Computerized Hardware
• PCs
• Computerized Software

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THIS WEEK IN LABINSTRUMENTATION

• Exercise 1
• Use of pulse transducer to measure heart rate (HR)

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THIS WEEK IN LAB INSTRUMENTATION

• Exercise 1 The Pulse Transducer
• What is a Pulse Transducer?

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THIS WEEK IN LAB INSTRUMENTATION

• Exercise 1 The Pulse Transducer
• The Output