Biology 205 Lab Manual
Welcome
Copyright
UBCO Biology open materials
Conventions
Labs 1 & 2 - BIOL 205
Planning Your Experiment
Assignment 1: Primary Source Papers
Overview
Primary Source Paper Rubric
Figure Selected
Description of Figure
Relevance to Study
Fish Population Project
Fish population declines: Mitigation recommendations needed
Your Role
Macroinvertebrates Project
Potential changes in macroinvertebrates: Mitigation recommendations needed
Your Role
Invasive Mussles Project
Invasive Mussel Project – Mitigation Recommendations Needed
Your Role
Lab 3 - BIOL 205
Lab 3 Welcome
Getting Acquainted with Your Organism
Assignment 2: Getting Acquainted
Scientific Drawing Rubric
Quiz 1: Getting Acquainted
Open Science, R, & RMarkdown
Overview
Open Science
Registered Reports
Why Use
R
& RMarkdown?
Scientific Writing, Installation of
R
& RStudio
Assignment Template
Using the Template
Directory Structure & File Naming
YAML
Document Body
Images & Graphs
References
Building the
pdf
Assignment 3: Protocol (first submission)
Practicing Knitting
Assignment 3: Rubric
Lab 4 - BIOL 205
Scripting in R
Using the RScripts
Step 1: Set your working directory
Step 2: Installing & Loading Required Packages
Step 3: Uploading your data
Step 4: Visualizing your data
Step 5: Calculate descriptive statistics
Step 6: Performing statistical analyses
Practicing Using the
R
Scripts
Lab 5 - BIOL 205
Data Collection Round 1
Quiz 3: Who Am I?
Assignment 4: Protocol (final submission)
Overview
Assignment 4: Rubric
Lab 6 - BIOL 205
Data Collection Round 2
Quiz 4: Who Am I?
Lab 7 - BIOL 205
Data Collection Round 3
Quiz 5: Who Am I?
Lab 8 - BIOL 205
Data Collection Round 4 & Cleanup
Quiz 6: Who Am I?
Lab 9 - BIOL 205
Data Analysis
Lab 10 - BIOL 205
Assignment 5: PowerPoint Presentations
Overview
Suggestions for Content and Structure
Oral Presentation Rubric
Title Slide
Outline
Background
Experimental Design
Results
Discussion
Recommendations
Acknowledgements
Slide Content
Oral Presentation Skills
Additional
Slide Appearance
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Biology 205 Lab Manual
Data Collection Round 1
This week you will be working in the labs collecting data for your project.