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Explore the diversity of life on the planet Earth with a focus on organisms found in the Southeast of the United States, examine the evolutionary relationships between organisms and the ways in which scientists are currently expanding their understanding of those relationships every day through this BIO 102 Lab Manual

How to use this book: 

Each unit of this book represents the information you will learn during a week of lab class. Within each unit you will find types of information to help you learn the content.

At the beginning of each unit, you will find lists of reinforced skills and learning outcomes.

  • Reinforced Skills: This section lists skills and knowledge that you should have acquired in your first semester Biology class, your first semester Chemistry class, or from earlier education. If the content listed is unfamiliar you should brush up on the content before class. The early chapters of your lecture text and well-maintained educational websites will be good sources for this information.
  • Learning Outcomes: These are the skills and knowledge you should acquire during the lab activities and by studying the content after class. The learning outcomes can be a big hint about what is likely to be on assessments during the class.

Inside each unit you will find written material explaining the content, diagrams, photographs, tables, and bolded vocabulary terms. Interspersed with the content are examples, practice activities, and in-lab activities for you to explore and complete.

  • Examples: When a concept is unusual, specific, or requires the working of math, you will find an example provided. The examples show specific instances of how to apply a concept or work on a problem. In chapters without complex concepts, but many structures to learn the examples are replaced with diagrams or photographs of the organisms you are studying.
  • Practice Activities: Problems that the information you just learned should allow you to solve. Practice activities may include examples worked in class or additional problems you can work through on your own. They make great practice problems to work through and discuss with your instructor during office hours if you are finding the concepts challenging.
  • In-lab activities: These activities contain the instructions and data tables needed for the activities you will complete in the classroom. Reading the steps before beginning each activity will help you complete the tasks more quickly and successfully. While drawing pictures of specimens and labeling them may seem like an antiquated activity, it is a far superior way to learn the material than taking a photograph.

At the end of each unit, you will find a Structures and terms to know list and a set of review questions.

  • Structures and Terms to Know: These list the vocabulary you should be able to use and the physical structures you should be able to identify on the organisms we study in class. Use these lists as guides for your studying for the practical portions of assessments. These lists are word banks for practical tests but remember that you will have to know the words and spell them without the list in front of you.
  • Review Question: Practice questions to help you gauge your understanding of the lab material. These are great to complete in study groups or as review for exams.

Publication Date

1-2025

Edition

Spring 2025

Disciplines

Biology

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