Catalog Description: Ecology, evolution, energy processes, genetics and cellular structure and function are primary topics of study. Emphasis is on the interactions between living and nonliving things as well as the interrelationships between living organisms (including humans). Issues in science, technology and society will also be explored. The laboratory will emphasize the process of science, and students will practice skills scientists use to answer questions about the natural world. This course is NOT designed for Biology, Environmental, and Neuroscience majors.
My description: This class was a typical general biology course, similar to the biology course that you take in high school. It’s a lecture where you show up to class and listen to the teacher talk about the material. There is very little interaction between those in the class and the teacher. The grades for this course were mostly homework and exam grades. There were very few writing assignments for this class.
The project that I chose to use for this page was a lab report based on an experiment analyzing the affect of temperature on the metabolic rate of crickets. The reason that I choose to use this because we only had 3 writing assignments in this class and I felt that this paper was stronger than my previous two papers for that class. I also chose to use this paper as my major project for Biology 104 because I thought that this was the most interesting experiment that we had taken part in during the course of this semester. This was a type of experiment that I had ever been a part of before and it had a different outcome that I had thought would have happened. I thought that this project would seem as interesting to others as I thought it was.
The steps of this experiment are to turn on the CO2 sensor, set it to low and connect it to the computer interface. Then we weighed the bottle for the crickets and then added the crickets (5) and weighed it again to calculate the mass of the crickets. Then we collected results at 2 different temperatures, control which was room temperature (25℃). At room temperature we then set up the CO2 on the respiration chamber crickets and record data for 5 minutes. The next step was to place the crickets and the respiration chamber into an ice bath (5℃) and begin recording the data for another 5 minutes. Then once we recorded the data we placed the crickets into the recovery bin.
