Physiology Laboratories

Physiology Laboratories

OBJECTIVES:

The physiology laboratories are designed to help you achieve the following goals:

- to become familiar with some of the equipment and procedures used by physiologists

- to demonstrate some of the concepts and mechanisms being studied in lecture

- to apply knowledge gained in lecture to explain the results of the experiments

POLICIES:

g Laboratory attendance is mandatory. If you must miss a lab, you are expected to make up the missed

work by attending an alternate lab section with permission of the lab instructor. Excessive lab swapping

is not permitted. For each lab absence after the first, 10 points will be deducted from the final lab grade.

Homework assignments for missed labs will not be accepted.

g You are expected to read through the material to be covered before coming to lab. Prelab quizzes

(quizzes for the upcoming lab) are on Blackboard. The quiz will be available one week before the lab.

You can take the quiz as many times as you want. The highest grade will count. Your prelab quiz average

will count as a quiz in your lab grade.

g There will be an in class quiz at the beginning of each laboratory. The quiz will cover the previous lab.

There are no make-up quizzes but the lowest lab quiz will be dropped.

g Most labs will require a lab report. Some labs will require individual lab reports and some labs will require one

lab report per group. Lab reports are due the week after the lab is performed. They will not be accepted late.

GRADING:

10% Lab reports

10% Quizzes

5% Final lab practical exam

25% (The lab grade is 1/4 of the final grade for your course)

You must earn a passing grade in the laboratory to pass the course.

LABORATORY SCHEDULE SPRING 2012

Text: Biology 1020: Human Physiology Laboratory Manual, Fall 2010, D. Yordy and K. Montgomery

	Lab Dates (M&W)	Topics	Exercises
1	Jan 23 & 25	Safety, Metric Measurement, Accuracy and Precision	Exercises 1, 2, 3
2	Jan 30 & Feb 1	Graphing, pH, Homeostasis	Exercise 4, 5 and Handout
3	Feb 6& 8	Solubility, Diffusion, Osmosis	Exercise 8
4	Feb 13 & 15	Enzymes	Exercise 9
5	Feb 20 & 22	Intro to Biopac, Reflexes, Reaction Time	Exercises 10 & 11 & 12
6	Feb 27 & Feb 29	Cutaneous Receptors, Referred Pain	Exercises 13 & 14 (part D)
7	Mar 5 & 7	Special Senses	Exercise 14 (part A, B, & C)
		Spring Recess
8	Mar 19 & 21	Skeletal Muscle Physiology	Physio EX: Frog Skeletal Muscle
9	Mar 26 & 28	Blood	Exercise 15
10	Apr 2 & 4	Cardiac Physiology	Physio EX: Frog CV Physiology
11	Apr 9 & 11	Cardiovascular Physiology	Exercise 16
12	Apr 16 & 18	Respiratory Physiology	Exercise 17
13	Apr 23 & 25	Buffering Capacity Urinalysis	Exercise 18 Exercise 19
14	Apr 30 & May 2	LAB PRACTICAL (Cumulative)

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