APPROVED
COURSE OUTLINE
BSC 1005L BIOLOGICAL
SCIENCE LAB . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Number Course
Title Cr.Hrs.
A. Course Description:
Prerequisite/ or Corequisite:
BSC 1005. This is a laboratory
experience to accompany Biological Science for students who do not intend to
major in Natural Science or medical fields. Forty five45
contact hours.
B. Major
Learning Outcomes:
1. The student will understand the basic
chemistry of life in a laboratory environment.
2. The student will be able to describe and
label the structures of the cell and understand current theories pertaining to
its functioning, including cell division.
3. The student will understand and provide
examples of how plants and animals obtain, transfer and use energy on both the
organismic and molecular levels.
4. The student will understand several body
systems including identifying the structure, function, relationship and showing
current applications and homeostatic integration.
5. The student will illustrate the concepts of
genetics and use them to explain basic inheritance patterns.
6. The student will understand the major types
of plants and animals and be able to recognize relationships and apply the
basic evolutionary principles that link all life.
7. The student will understand the equipment and
techniques used to demonstrate and test scientific principles.
C. Course
Objectives Stated in Performance Terms:
1. The student will understand the basic
chemistry of life in a laboratory environment by:.
a. uThe student will be able to explain ussing the
scientific method.eing
b. The student will be able to illustratinge
and explaining atoms, molecules, bonding,
pH and buffersbuffers., using the periodic table
and models.
c. The
student will be able to test and identify explaining the role of the four basic
groups of organic compounds, their components, procurement, location, and use
in organisms.
2. The student will be able to describe and
label the structures of the cell and understand current theories pertaining to
its functioning, including cell division by:.
a. The student will be able to identifying
a model of cell structure and explaining
how the processes of diffusion, osmosis and active transport are carried on.
b. The student will be able to llisting the constituents of the cytoplasm,
observing its the 'sol-gel'
consistency of the cytosol,
locating its organelles and explaining their functions.
These
would include but not be limited to:
(1) microtubules,
microfilaments (5) lysosomes
cytosol
(2) endoplasmic reticulum (6) golgi apparatus
(3) ribosomes (7) mitochondria
(4) vacuoles (8) chloroplasts
c. The
student will identify and be able to label the parts of all
phases of mitosis demonstrate
an understanding of the being
able to describe the cell cycle and meiosis.
3. The student will understand and provide
examples of how plants and animals obtain, transfer and use energy on both the
organismic and molecular levels by:.
a. The
student will be able to traceing the flow of energy through
ecosystems and,
understanding the laws of thermodynamics
governing that flow and the significance of different amounts of energy
available at successive trophic levels while studying a model or actual food
chain.
b. The student will studying the effects of environmental
parameters on photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
4. The student will understand several body
systems including identifying the structure, function, relationship and showing
current applications and homeostatic integration by:
a. The student will be able to identifying parts and overall functions of any
(or all) of these systems:
(1) digestive (5) skeletal
(2) cardiovascular (6) nervous
(3) respiratory (7) urinary
(4) muscular (8) reproductive including (may include
embryonic) development
b. The student will be able to illustrate illustrating homeostasis and applying
it to the optimal functioning of a whole organism.
5. The student will illustrate the concepts of
genetics and use them to explain basic inheritance patterns by:-.
a. The
student will be able relating Mendel's laws to state
relate and relate these to
the process of meiosis using models or slides.
b. The student will be able to solve solving genetics problems involving
complete dominance, incomplete dominance, sex-linked traits, multiple alleles,
multiple genes and simple pedigrees.
c. The
student will identifying
major human genetic diseases and their causes.
6. The student will understand the major types
of plants and animals and be able to recognize relationships and apply the
basic evolutionary principles that link all life by:.
a. The
student will be able to classifying
major life groupings, listing similarities and differences among them.
b. The student will be able to summarize summarizing the underlying principles
that unite living things:
(1) Basic basic energy
production, storage and use.
(2) Adaptations
adaptations of structure and function to use for
the individual and for the species.
7. The student will understand the equipment and
techniques used to demonstrate and test scientific principles by.:--
a. The
student will learning
how to use the microscope and identify its parts.
b. The
student will learning
how to use various scientific equipment to test or monitor scientific
experiments.
c. The
student will be able to identifying
a problem, constructing a(n) hypothesis and designing and experiment to test.
D. Criteria
Performance Standard:
Upon
successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70%
accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through
classroom measures developed by individual course instructors. The student will have to
successfully complete 70% of the above objectives on written/oral tests in
order to pass the course with a grade of C or better.
E. The Essential Indicator:
A successful student needs to
identify and understand with 70 percent accuracy biological principles critical
to life specifically applicable to his/her world.
DBT
SCN
Change
Effective
Session I, 1993-94
3
YR C&I Review 1993-94
C&I
Online effective Session 19991.
C&I
Effective 20022.