General Biology Lab BIPH 1101

Course description:

The course reinforces lecture topics and includes microscope techniques. This course will work with techniques that are important in biology. As the processes of photosynthesis in plants and other related topics, cellular metabolism and respiration (aerobic and anaerobic), cellular transportation and intercellular recognition. Also we study of human Physiology by demonstration by charts, models and slides. Microscopic study and slide preparation of Monocot and Dicot root and Stem.

Course Aims:

This course is aimed to provide students with:
knowledge and understanding of biological experimental techniques, including practical laboratory:
 Parts of the optical microscope (light Microscope).
The cell histology.
The cell membrane, lipid solubility, cell transport mechanisms.
Laboratory system and safety rules.
Laboratory tools and their use.

Course outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course students will demonstrate basic practical skills in each of the following: 
  • The correct lab safety procedures to follow for a variety of scenarios.
  • Be familiar with and use the light microscope.
  • Prepare and examine one animal cell and one plant cell – unstained and stained – using the light microscope.
  • Characteristics of living organisms.
  • Chemical composition of living matter.
  • Structural characteristics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
  • Mechanisms of membrane transport.
  • Basic concepts of, photosynthesis, and cellular respiration.
  • Mechanisms and function of cellular reproduction.
  • Role of nucleic acids in the cell.
  • Mechanisms of protein synthesis and regulation of gene expression.
  • Basic events in the origin of life.