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Originally Posted by philkolb31
Ahh gotcha! And whie were at it, what are the bio 1ao3 labs like?
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Bio 1A03 labs are a little more intense, for first year anyway. During the first week or two of class, you'll have 3 skills lab to complete as prep for your real labs and to ensure everyone knows the basic techniques and it counts as a 3% completion mark towards yoru grade. For us (2 years ago), they were as follows:
-Using the Micropipette
-Aseptic Techniques
-Microscopy.
There will be TA's there to help you and you need their signature to show that you've successfully completed your skills labs. As for the actual labs, there was no pre-lab, however, from what I remember, you need to write down purpose, hypothesis, materials, etc before the lab, because you won't have time to write them in lab. And draw any tables and such that are needed. Basically prep everything that you can do out of lab to minimize your writing in lab. You get this information based on the lab documents that you print out off of Avenue but just put it in your own words/summarize them. And at the end of the experiment, you take down your observations and include anything the TA asked for so that he/she can sign the end of your lab before you leave. IN other words, you can'd add in any more info after the TA has signed it and you weren't allowed to leave any blank spaces (large chunks or) anything. My TA was pretty strict about that though, I'm not sure if all the TA's were like that.
The informal labs included an 1% quiz for each, they were:
Biological Molecules: involved paper chromatography, and separation of 2 amino acids.
Microscopy: Using 2 bacteria and growing them in-culture, looking at variability within plant cell size, and also looking at other cell-types.
Microbio and antibiotics: Using antibiotics on the 2 bacteria cultures made in lab 2 (E.Coli and M.Luteus) and looking at the efficacy of 4 antibiotics on both.
DNA Analysis: Running Gel electrophoresis with DNA
And there was one formal lab..
Recent course outline:
http://bio.mcmaster.ca/courses/ugrad... 02010-11.pdf