Multi-week Laboratory Exercises
Exercises are listed below with credits to the instructors and schools
Artificial Selection
(PDF) - University of Minnesota (Dr. B. Fall)
Artificial Selection and Evolution: Setup
- Georgia Southern University (Dr. A. Harvey)
Artificial Selection and Evolution: Part
2
- Georgia Southern University (Dr. A. Harvey)
Intraspecific competition
- Georgia Southern University (Dr. A. Harvey)
Inbreeding Depression
(PDF)- Queens University (Dr. C. Eckert)
Eckert, C. G. 1994. Inbreeding depression and the evolutionary advantage
of outbreeding. Pages 215-238, in Tested studies for laboaratory teaching,
Volume 15 (C. A. Goldman, Editor). Proceedings of the 15th Workshop/Conference
of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education.
Link to document
.
Phenotypic and genetic variation
(PDF)- Franklin & Marshall College (Dr. J. Winterer) (single
week if plants are pre-planted, multi week if students plant)
Labs using other organisms
Abiotic factors regulating population
size
- uses
Landoltia punctata (floating aquatic plant) to
investigate nutrient limitations to population size - (A. Harvey, Georgia
Southern University)
Biotic factors regulating population
size
- uses
Landoltia punctata to investigate carrying capacity
- (A. Harvey, Georgia Southern University)
Antibiotic Resistance in
E.coli
- (Antonovics and Taylor, University of Virginia).
Artificial selection in C.elegans
- Part 1 (
Statistical analysis
- Part 2)- selection for "fast" worms - (D. Guay, Bowdoin
College )
Sorensen, R.E. 1996. Life-History Schedules in Daphnia magna: An
Ecological Activity for Multiple Laboratory Sessions. Proceedings of the
16th Workshop/Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education.
Link to PDF
.
Williams, E. 1991. Mimicry.
Experiments to Teach Ecology.
Ecological Society of America Workshop. 20pp.
PDF
Bader, J.M. 1998. Measuring Genetic Variability in Natural Populations
by Allozyme Electrophoresis. Pages 25-42, in Tested studies for laboratory
teaching, Volume 19. (S. J. Karcher, Editor). Proceedings of the 19th
Workshop/Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education.
Link to document
Goldman, C.A. Measuring Genetic Variation in Zebra Mussels Using Cellulose
Acetate Electrophoresis. ABLE mini-workshop. Presented at the 20th Annual
Workshop/Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE),
June 9-13, 1998, Florida State University, Tallahassee.
Link to document
.
Leonard, C. and Nolan, K.A. 2000. Making conservation genetics
come alive for students.
Bioscene. 26 (2):19-24.
PDF
Mordacq, J.C. and Ellington, R.W. 1998. Bacterial gene transfer.
Pages 1-24, in Tested studies for laboratory teaching, Volume 19. (S.
J. Karcher, Editor). Proceedings of the 19th Workshop/Conference of the
Association for Biology Laboratory Education.
Link to document
.
Haddix, P.L. Paulsen, E.T. and Werner, T.F. 2000. Measurement
of mutation to antibiotic resistance: Ampicillin resistance in
Serratia marcescens .
Bioscene. 26 (1):17-21.
PDF
Salata, M. 2002. Evolution lab with
Drosophila.
Bioscene. 28 (2): 3-6.
PDF
Labs Using Existing Data
Molecular phylogenetics
- students use data from GenBank to reconstruct phylogeny of HIV
strains - (Antonovics and Taylor, University of Virginia ).
Ogram, A. 1998. Teaching Soil Bacterial Diversity from a Phylogenetic
Perspective: A Term Project Utilizing the Ribosomal Database Project.
Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education (JNRLSE).
27: 93-96.
PDF
Kliman, R.M. 2001. A project-based approach to teaching complex
population genetics to undergraduates.
Bioscene. 27(4):
13-20.
PDF
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