BIOL 200 - Lab • biol200

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Laboratory Class Meetings

Lab: Tuesday or Wednesday, 1:30-4:20pm in Sci Ctr K119

Bring your laptop to all lab meetings, as most assignments will be submitted electronically

Course Objectives

Students completing this course will be able to:

appreciate how scientists collect and use data to study topics such as phylogenies, inheritance, adaptation, genetic drift, population ecology, community ecology, and ecosystems.
create models for basic ecological concepts and understand how models are used to predict outcomes of biological phenomena.
apply all parts of the scientific method to ecological and evolutionary questions.
formulate a hypothesis with testable predictions.
interpret graphical presentations of empirical relationships and theoretical models.
use R to create graphs and carry out statistical analyses of data.
analyze and communicate the results of an experiment

Required Laboratory Materials

All materials will be provided weekly by instructors, posted to the course Blackboard site, usually on Fridays of the week prior to the lab. Laptops will be useful for many lab meetings

Lab Assignments

Unless you are told otherwise by your instructor, all assignments should be handed in electronically. Links to where you need to turn them in can be found at the top of the page under the “Lab Assignment Turn In” drop down menu.

All assignments need to be submitted as a single PDF, Word Document, or Google Doc. DO NOT submit a Pages file.

MAKE SURE TO WRITE YOUR NAME(S) ON THE ASSIGNMENT AND WRITE AND SIGN THE OBERLIN HONOR CODE.

It is recommended to copy and paste the questions into another document and answer them.