Lab 6: Pre-Lab
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This is an ONLINE-ONLY Lab. In class this week for BIOL 121, MOST of you will be taking your BIOL 120 Midterm Exam. BIOL 120 Honors students will not be coming to lab at all this week. |
You will use your research proposals to conduct your own experiments in Lab 7 and Lab 8. You will then communicate the results of whichever experiment you chose in a scientific poster.
WKU is a KAS Enhanced Affiliate and faculty, staff, and students may join KAS for free.
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Lab 6: Part 1 Online ProtocolYour task in Unit 2 is to explore the factors that may affect metabolic rate in two experiments involving:
Exercise I. How to find and distinguish scientific, peer-reviewed journal articles Exercise II. How to cite scientific journal articles Exercise III. Find and cite your references |
In Unit 2, you will be constructing your own hypotheses and developing your own experimental designs to test the affect of different variables on metabolism, specifically on the rate of cellular respiration in crayfish and the rate of photosynthesis in active chloroplasts. Unlike in Unit 1, you will be conducting your own literature search for information of these topics. You need to find and correctly cite 5 articles for each project. Procedure
Think back to the TedTalk last week where we learned some things about peer review. Now, let's focus on what a peer-reviewed papers actually look like.
Now, how do we find them? Most scientific articles are not free to the public, so large institutions, like universities, pay fees for access.
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In Unit 2, you will be constructing your own hypotheses and developing your own experimental designs to test the effect of different variables on metabolism, specifically on the rate of cellular respiration in crayfish and the rate of photosynthesis in active chloroplasts. Unlike in Unit 1, you will be conducting your own literature search for information on these topics. You need to find and correctly cite 5 articles for each project.