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Below is a list of all the lab items included in your lab kit price.
This lab kit should can only be purchased by students enrolled in MB102 via
distance education. Most of the items are included with the initial purchase, but
the living organisms will be mailed to you separately. The kit, including your
textbook, will cost approximately $105, or $110 if it has to be shipped to you.
Broken down, the cost is:
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 | $25 for all the supplemental materials in the kit as well as those sent at a later date
(including their shipping cost) |
| $80 for the book |
| $5 for kit shipping (only charged if the kit is actually shipped to you) |
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Total: $110
Please be careful with the kit items. They may not look like a
lot at the time of purchase, but you will be amazed at how much you can do with them.
Also, keep in mind, some of the items are rather expensive (even if they don't look
it) and cannot be replaced easily. And some of the items must be re-used
(like the test tube), so don't throw the general stuff (except for coverslips)
away!
| Lab Topic |
Items included in kit for that topic |
| General Materials |
| 20 slides (wash and reuse) |
| 1 well slide (wash and reuse) |
| coverslips (these may shatter on you if you wash them, so
we gave you enough to throw them out) |
| 20 plastic pipettes |
| 3 petri dishes (wash and reuse) |
| one test tube (wash and reuse) |
| iodine solution (store in the dark) |
| VHS tape containing lab how-to's |
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| Scientific Method |
| fast plant seeds (approximately 16 tiny seeds are included in each kit... open them carefully) |
| vermiculite/soil mixture |
| fertilizer pellets-- yellow, round pellets that are larger
than the seeds |
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| Genetics |
| PTC-testing paper (this is just a little strip of paper, 0.5 cm wide and approximately 4
cm long, wrapped in Saran Wrap) |
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| Microscopes |
| lens paper |
| letter "e" slide |
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| Macromolecules |
| Artificial (harmless) blood samples for cholesterol testing-- you received two samples
from either person A, B, C, or D, one from that person's initial screening and the other
at their current screening |
| Two cholesterol testing strips (use according to the directions for this week-- we were
not able to include any extra strips) |
| albumin powder |
| starch powder |
| plastic spot plate |
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| Passive Transport |
| pieces of dialysis tubing |
| starch powder |
| silver nitrate (AgNO3, store in the dark) |
| potassium permanganate (KMnO4) crystals |
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| Cells |
| methylene blue solution |
| safranin solution |
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| Mitosis/DNA |
| onion root tip slide |
| wheat germ |
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| Protists |
| methyl cellulose |
| diatomaceous earth |
| fresh protists will be sent in a separate package later to ensure their viability.
This package may include:
| Amoeba |
| Paramecium |
| Stentor |
| Euglena |
| Volvox |
| Spirogyra |
| Multicellular algae such as Kelp or Ulva |
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| Animal Physiology |
| dissecting pins |
| wax petri dish for dissection |
| some organisms will be sent in a separate package later to ensure their viability.
This package may include:
| Hydra |
| Planaria |
| tubifex worms |
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Note that there are some labs that are not listed here. That is because the
general materials will suffice for them, you will need to get the materials, or there are
no special materials for those labs. Keep in mind that this list does not serve as a
complete materials listing for the course, but only as a listing of what we have included
in your kit.
If you have any concerns about the chemicals we are using, please read the Material Safety Data Sheet web page. |
