This manual was made for a CUREs college course that covers all basic knowledge and techniques of microbiology at a 200 level understanding. The labs require a fully equipped microbiology lab and general anatomy lab resources.
This poster set was designed for display in a microbiology teaching laboratory. The consistent 12 step layout contributes to a cohesive appearance. The color hints on the bottom of each poster shows what students should expect as results from staining. These posters were designed to be printed as 18x24 in, or displayed digitally.
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"Microbiota that live as symbionts within and on other organisms are a huge focus area for research. With over 90,000 studies in the past decade alone, the findings have implications stretching beyond individual species, and influencing biological and philosophical concepts with consequences for biological and medical issues. At this intersection of biology, biomedical sciences and philosophy, an interdisciplinary summer school was held in July 2019. The “Microbiota, Symbiosis and Individuality” meeting focused on four facets of microbiological research: Holobionts, Individuality, Causation, and human health. The meeting examined the construction of biological identity as a dynamic dialogue with the organism’s microbiota. Because life relies on symbiosis, a holobiont – the host plus its microbiota – might be considered a biological individual. Focusing on the causal relationships between a host and its microbes will help to inform human health and medicine..."
The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.
This micrograph was taken at 100X total magnifcation on a brightfield microscope. The subject is Escherichia coli cells grown in broth culture overnight at 37 degrees Celsius. The cells were heat-fixed to a slide and Gram stained prior to visualization.Image credit: Emily Fox
This site shows what blood is, what happens when the immune system goes awry, what are stem cells are, and more. See videos exploring cell structure and function, cell development and motility, plankton, plants, and protozoa. Learn how the sea urchin helps us understand genes, reproduction, and cancer.
Biologists at Arizona State University hope that by learning more about animal behavior, they will also be able to understand why people act the way they do.
Thousands of orange and black shapes flutter through the trees. Welcome to one of the few wintering homes of the monarch butterfly. Also in: Spanish
The students will listen to and discuss books about butterflies and the migration of monarch butterflies to Mexico in order to integrate science, social studies, and language arts.
The activity is a field trip to Minnehaha Falls where students will observe and record their findings in a science notebook.
This activity is a classroom guided inquiry lesson where the student will sort, identify, and classify Minnesota fish.
This activity is a classroom and field investigation where students will group Minnsota fish families and create their own pop can fishing rods.
In this biology field experience, students will explore trees of Minnesota. Working in cooperative groups, students will discover biodiversity of trees and determine populations of tree species through observation and use of dichotomous keys.
Unfortunately, many people have persistent misconceptions about evolution. Some are simple misunderstandingsŃideas that develop in the course of learning about evolution, possibly from school experiences and/or the media. Other misconceptions may stem from purposeful attempts to misrepresent evolution and undermine the public's understanding of this topic.
Drawings and animations, are used to help participants understand the differences between and steps involved in mitosis and meiosis. The cell cycle as well as individual steps of mitosis and meiosis are included in this learning material.
The human body is composed of trillions of cells. Each cell has a specific purpose to help carry out life. Many of these trillions of cells will wear out and need replaced. This essential process for life is called mitosis. In this seminar you will explore, compare, and reflect on how cells reproduce and make copies of themselves. Additionally, you will be challenged to create a model of the process based on your experience.StandardsBIO.B.1.1.1 Describe the events that occur during the cell cycle: interphase, nuclear division (i.e., mitosis or meiosis), cytokinesis.
Mendel was the father of genetics, but he wasn’t the final source of all information about the topic. After Mendel’s time we learned a great deal about genetics. Some of this information seemed to conflict with some of the information Mendel gleaned from his pea plants. We call this Non-Mendelian genetics. This lesson will challenge you to compare the concepts before and after Mendel and reflect on how you have inherited traits.StandardsBIO.B.2.1 Compare Mendelian and non-Mendelian patterns of inheritance.
Discover what controls how fast tiny molecular motors in our body pull through a single strand of DNA. How hard can the motor pull in a tug of war with the optical tweezers? Discover what helps it pull harder. Do all molecular motors behave the same?
Discover what controls how fast tiny molecular motors in our body pull through a single strand of DNA. How hard can the motor pull in a tug of war with the optical tweezers? Discover what helps it pull harder. Do all molecular motors behave the same?
Students will predict bond polarity using electron negativity values; indicate polarity with a polar arrow or partial charges; rank bonds in order of polarity; and predict molecular polarity using bond polarity and molecular shape.
This video from Nature features the start of the monarch butterflyë_í__ northward trek.