Mrs. Guandolo Office CS 108     703 764-6043
Office hours: M W 12-1, Tu Th 11-12:30
e-mail: aguandolo@nvcc.edu

Texts: The Biology Experience by Dearing, et al.

Each lab group will need to purchase one fetal pig from the bookstore prior to the third week of lab. The pigs will be stored in the lab and properly disposed of at the end of the dissection labs.  It will be decided in lab which sex fetal pig your group should purchase.  Latex gloves are also available for purchase at the bookstore.
 
 
 

Week of	Exercise	Topic
Jan. 12	14	Animal Tissues
Jan. 19	16	Digestion, Physiology of Gas Exchange
Jan. 26	15	Vertebrate Anatomy:  Digestion and Respiration
Feb. 2	17	Vertebrate Anatomy:  The Circulatory System
Feb. 9	18	Vertebrate Anatomy:  The Urinary and Reproductive Systems
Feb. 16	19	Physiology of the Urinary and Reproductive Systems and The Pig Practical
Feb. 23	20	Animal Development
Mar. 1	21	Nervous Control:  Nerve Centers and Effectors
Mar. 8		SPRING BREAK
Mar. 15	22	Nervous Control:  Receptors
Mar. 24	23	Plant Body and Leaf Structure and Function
Mar. 31	24	Stem and Root Anatomy
Apr. 7	25	Reproduction and Development of Flowering Plants
Apr. 14	27	Symbiosis
Apr. 21		LAST QUIZ

 

GRADING - Lab is 25% of your BIO 102 grade.  Your grade will be composed of the average of 12 weekly quizzes (13 will be given, the lowest will be dropped), and an attendance grade, and the grade on the PIG PRACTICAL.  A total of 14 grades will be averaged.

Each week at the beginning of the lab you will have a written quiz  covering the previous week’s lab.  These quizzes may contain diagrams to label, short answers, definitions, multiple choice, matching, fill in the blank, true false, and occasional microscopic identifications.  Cheating will not be tolerated.  Please do not wear brimmed hats during the quizzes.

Attendance is expected.  If no labs are missed you will have a 100 for your attendance grade.  For each absence you will lose 15 points from this attendance grade.  Taking the lab quiz and leaving is considered an absence.  Leaving early from lab will be considered a partial or complete absence dependent on the amount of the lab exercise you have completed.

If a lab is missed a make up lab quiz can be taken during my office hours, or at another arranged time, prior to the next time your lab meets.  Make up quizzes can be more difficult than the in class quizzes and can cover anything discussed in lab, done in lab, or in the lab manual.

Please do not bring audible pagers or cell phones to lab.  TURN THEM OFF!

In the event of a school closing due to weather, come prepared to take your missed lab quiz at the next lab meeting.