| Course title | |||||
| 生物学実験 [Fundamental Experiment on Biology] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 1 | |
| Department | Year | 2～ | Semester | 1st | |
| Course type | 1st | Course code | 01BO0806a | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 崔 東寿, 岩井 紀子 [CHOI Dongsu, IWAI Noriko] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| Learn about 1) ecology, morphology, and structure of animals, plants and microorganisms, 2) biological experimental method, and 3) how to write a scientific report. |
| Expected Learning |
| Students who successfully complete this course will be able to practice the basics of biology by training. |
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#0. Guidance on 9th April at room 1-25 #1. Ecology of Insects I. (Yoshida T.) Purpose: Understand an animal-plant interaction by investigating insect damage to acorns of oak species. Contents: Collect and assess the acorns of six oak species in Fuchu campus, and then compare them as insect microhabitats. #2. Ecology of Insects II. (Iwai N.) Purpose: Understand ants’ strategy against predators. Contents: Collect multiple species of ants and compare the amount of formic acid. #3. Ecology of Plants (Hoshino Y.) Purpose: Field survey of plant communities Contents: Description of plant communities based on the species composition, and some analyses using species diversity index and similarity index. #4. Morphology of Mammals (Kaneko Y. & Suzuki K.) Purpose: Examine general skeletal differences among mammalian species, learn how to do sex and age identification, and growth. Contents: Observe wild boar skulls of a regional population, and identify those age by measuring mandible bone length. Based on the measured data, discuss about growth and sexual dimorphism. #5. Morphology of Vascular Plants (Akasaka M.) Purpose: Understand basic physical structure of vascular plants. Contents: Observe and sketch several types of leaves. #6. Animal Body (Watanabe G.) Purpose: Using frogs as a model, students will learn the fundamental structure of animals. Contents: Students will observe body structure of the frog, and make a perfusion model of the frog heart. They will observe heart beats and conduct an experiment to test effects of temperature and some chemicals. |
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| Japanese |
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| Last update |
| 5/9/2019 10:32:50 AM |