Bio-OER

by CUNY

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This is an Open Education Resource laboratory manual for Biology.

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Publisher
City Tech CUNY
Subjects
Biology, Biotechnology
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Biology Open Educational Resources
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Licensing
  7. 1: Biology Basics
  8. 1.1: Introduction
  9. 1.2: Microscopy
  10. 1.3: Units of Measure
  11. 1.4: Quantitative Skills
  12. 1.5: Reporting On Science
  13. 2: Chemistry
  14. 2.1: Introduction
  15. 2.2: Water
  16. 2.3: Biologically Important Macromolecules
  17. 2.4: Chromatography
  18. 2.5: pH
  19. 2.6: pH (Activity)
  20. 2.7: Carbohydrates
  21. 2.8: Lipids
  22. 2.9: Proteins
  23. 2.10: Nucleic Acids
  24. 2.11: Biological Molecules (Concept)
  25. 3: Quantitative Determinations
  26. 3.1: Introduction
  27. 3.2: Enzymes
  28. 3.3: Exploring Beer's Law (Virtual)
  29. 3.4: Quantitative Detection of Protein (Activity)
  30. 3.5: Quantitative Detection of Proteins (SpectroVis Plus)
  31. 3.6: Enzyme Kinetics (Activity)
  32. 3.7: Enzyme Kinetics with Spectrovis
  33. 4: Osmosis and Diffusion
  34. 4.1: Introduction
  35. 4.2: Why Are Cells Small? (Activity)
  36. 4.3: Do Larger Things Diffuse Faster? (Activity)
  37. 4.4: Gummy Bears- Tonicity (Activity)
  38. 4.5: Observing Osmosis (Activity)
  39. 4.6: Agar Cubes (Preparation)
  40. 5: Cellular Respiration
  41. 5.1: Introduction
  42. 5.2: Fermentation
  43. 5.3: Cell Respiration (Concept)
  44. 6: Photosynthesis
  45. 6.1: Introduction
  46. 6.2: Photosynthetic Pigments
  47. 6.3: Absorbance Spectra of Photosynthetic Pigments
  48. 6.4: Photosynthesis (Concept)
  49. 7: Cell Division
  50. 7.1: Introduction
  51. 7.2: Mitosis (Activity)
  52. 7.3: Modeling Mitosis and Meiosis (Activity)
  53. 7.4: Chromosomes and Karyotypes
  54. 8: Analyzing DNA
  55. 8.1: Introduction
  56. 8.2: DNA Replication
  57. 8.3: Variable Number Tandem Repeats
  58. 8.4: Propagating DNA in Bacteria
  59. 8.5: Restriction Enzymes
  60. 8.6: DNA Fingerprinting (RFLP)
  61. 8.7: Cheek Cell DNA Extraction
  62. 8.8: D1S80 VNTR (Genotyping)
  63. 8.9: DNA Miniprep by Alkaline Lysis (Activity)
  64. 8.10: Sanger Sequencing of DNA
  65. 8.11: Next Gen Sequencing
  66. 9: Genetics
  67. 9.1: Introduction
  68. 9.2: Bitter Taste (Activity)
  69. 9.3: Sex-linked Genes
  70. 9.4: Probability and Chi-Square Analysis
  71. 9.5: Non-Mendelian Genetics
  72. 9.6: Hardy-Weinberg and Population Genetics
  73. 10: DNA as the Genetic Material
  74. 10.1: Introduction
  75. 10.2: Bacterial Transformation (Activity)
  76. 11: Gene Expression
  77. 11.1: Introduction
  78. 11.2: Prokaryotic Transcription
  79. 11.3: RNA Miniprep (Activity)
  80. 11.4: Quantitative Nucleic Acid Measurement
  81. 11.5: Eukaryotic Transcription
  82. 12: Tracing Origins
  83. 12.1: Introduction
  84. 12.2: Maternal Lineage
  85. 12.3: Maternal Lineage (Activity)
  86. 12.4: Alu Insertion (Activity)
  87. 12.5: Transposons
  88. 13: DNA Barcoding
  89. 13.1: Introduction
  90. 13.2: Barcoding (Activity)
  91. 14: Genetic Modification
  92. 14.1: Introduction
  93. 14.2: GMO Food (Activity)
  94. 15: Protein Production
  95. 15.1: Introduction
  96. 15.2: Protein Purification (Activity)
  97. 16: Bioinformatics
  98. 16.1: Introduction
  99. 16.2: Sequence Analysis
  100. 16.3: In Silico Restriction
  101. 16.4: In Silico PCR
  102. 16.5: Primer-BLAST
  103. 16.6: Morphometic Analysis
  104. 16.7: Sequence Alignment and Tree Building
  105. Back Matter
  106. Index
  107. Glossary
  108. Detailed Licensing