Biology 172L

Introduction to Biology II Lab

General Information

Coordinator: Dr. Agnes Fok
Teaching Assistants:
Laboratory: Edm
Manuals and Equipment:
- required: Biology 172L Manual (purchased in the lab at the first session for $5)
- required: Dissection Kit (Do not purchase those available in the UH Bookstore. Do go to the UH Medical School Bookstore in the Biomed Building Courtyard B and buy their version.)
- recommended: Photo Atlas for Biology by J. W. Perry and D. Morton, Wadsworth Publ. Co., 1996. (available in the bookstore)

Laboratory Topics

Laboratory reorientation and mechanics
Plant life cycles
How plants are constructed
Leaves: examples of specialized plant organ
Campus field trip: plant identification
Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
Annelida (earthworms)
Mollusca (clams)
Arthropoda (cockroaches)
Echinodermata (sea urchins)
Vertebrata (frogs)
Oral presentations (2X)

Important Scheduling Notes

The labs will meet during the Spring semester on the following school holidays:

January 15 -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday)
February 19 -- Presidents' Day (Monday)
March 26 -- Prince Kuhio Day (Tuesday)
April 5 -- Good Friday (Friday)

If you sign up for a lab that is scheduled to meet on any of the holidays listed above, you must attend lab on that day.

Switching lab sections is strongly discouraged. Students will only be allowed to switch lab sections under extenuating circumstances. Students wishing to switch labs must first meet with the Biology Program Director.

Disclaimer: This information has been obtained from the syllabus for the Spring 1996 class offering and is only partial information about the course. It is not an authorized syllabus and does not offer any guarantee that the course was taught according to this outline then or will be taught this way in the future. It is only intended for general planning.