Biology Lab I

General Biology I Lab Manual is a set of laboratories designed to follow the course content of a 1st semester majors’ biology course that focuses on topics from cells to organisms. The labs all contain a short introduction to the material that assumes the students already have some knowledge of the background content from lecture. Most of the laboratories also have a short pre-lab assignment; these are designed to get the students to read the lab and think about the activities or the material before their lab section begins. Questions and tasks designed to have the students record their observations and to think about what they mean are embedded throughout each lab. Each lab is designed to be completed in 1 hr and 50 min period with minimal introduction.