U BIOS Laboratory
Maintain a notebook in order to record their observations, thoughts, and conclusions. In your notebook, write down anything you learn or would like to revisit to enable you to study for quizzes and write your lab logs. This notebook will never be graded or collected and is different from your laboratory log.
Your laboratory log is something that you should type up and submit to your instructor through Turnitin.com and is due at the start time of your lab section the following week.
Date: note the date of the lab exercise (5 pts.)
Question: In the form of a question, express what we are trying to answer today. This should be specific and answerable. What is your experimental subject, and what biological phenomenon are you trying to uncover? (10 pts.)
Approach: In no more than five sentences describe the manipulations you performed to answer the question. Think of it like this for each assay/technique:
“What did you do, how did you do, and why did you do it?” (10 pts.)
Results: The results must contain a minimum of one graphical representation of your results.
The results must also contain no more than three sentences summarizing the TRENDS in the results (not a sentence that mentions every single result recorded, nor any mention of interpretation-that is what the discussion is for). Crucially, include the data from each manipulation you conducted. (25 pts.)
Discussion: In five or fewer sentences explain what the results mean and how you came to your conclusion about what the results mean. If there are several possibilities, explain which you think is most likely and why. Propose biological hypotheses to explain your observations. This is where you get to really understand the biology at play. Critically, this section contains the answer to the question section or an acknowledgement that you failed to answer the question. (30 pts.)
Improvements: what could have been done differently if this experiment were repeated to improve it? (10 pts.)
Future directions: Having now answered the question you set out to answer- propose another question. (10 pts.)
