Course title
生物学実験   [Fundamental Experiment on Biology]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 1 
Department   Year 2  Semester 1st 
Course type 1st  Course code 01bo1005e
Instructor(s)
岩井 紀子   [IWAI Noriko]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office afjgxte/L1151  Email address

Course description
Learn about 1) ecology, morphology, and structure of animals and plants, 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.
Course schedule
#0. Guidance on 14th April

#1. Animal-plant interaction. (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. (Iwai N.)
Purpose: Understand difference in ecological niche among ant species.
Contents: Collect multiple species of ants and compare the preference of food items.

#3. 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.

#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.
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Japanese
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12/26/2019 11:38:49 AM