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Spring 2019 Catalog 
    
Spring 2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BI 117 - Laboratory for BI 112


Credit Hours: 1

The laboratory will deal with vertebrate anatomy and physiology. This will be followed by a study of fundamental ecological techniques.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • cardiopulmanary fitness: explain the implications of cardiopulmonary fitness and the techniques used to measure heart and lung functions;
  • frog and pig disscection: name and recognize the external features and major muscles of the frog, the bones of the frog (and compare to the bones in a human skeleton) and name the internal organs and blood vessels of the frog; name and identify the external features of the head and neck, internal organs, blood vessels and reproductive systems of the fetal pig;
  • shark and sheep dissection; physiology of the nervous system: identify features of the shark ear, sheep and shark eyes; compare and identify features of the shark, sheep and human brains; and
  • bacteriology: demonstrate how to make a bacterial slide, smear, and Gram’s stain; identify the morphology of bacteria seen in the microscope and demonstrate how to test antibiotics against bacteria.


Concurrent Registration: BI 112
F/S (C, N, S)