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The Biology Student Handbook is provided as a guide for Biology and Biochemistry students at North Central College. Its contents include:
- degree programs and research opportunities
- guidelines for reports and presentations
- literature searching and information sources
- graphing and basic statistics
- laboratory procedures used in many courses
Printed, bound copies are available at nominal cost in the North Central bookstore. We strongly encourage every student to purchase a bound copy. The handbook is more than 90 pages long, and printing out individual copies will needlessly waste paper and increase the printing costs of the Biology Department and the Science Division. We are making the handbook available online so that students can access revisions that were made after they purchased their copies, or to permit online viewing in case a printed copy is not available. Please use this online resource wisely.
Last revised: September, 2008
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General Information for Biology Students
- Introduction: the Biology Student Handbook
- Studying Biology at North Central (revised 2006)
- Doing Biology (a guide to success)
- Research opportunities
- Writing a Lab Report (revised 2008)
- Preparing Posters and Oral Presentations
- Literature Searching and Sources (revised 2008)
- Plagiarism
- Accuracy, Precision and Statistics
- Graphing with Excel (revised 2008)
Biology Lab Guide
- Lab Safety
- Keeping a Lab Notebook
- Measurements and Solutions
- Preparing Media and Growing Cultures (new 2008)
- Using Micropipettors (revised 2008)
- Measuring with Pipettes
- Cleaning of Glassware
- Using the Microscope
- Using the Spectrophotometer (revised 2006)
- Restriction Enzyme Digestion (revised 2009)
- Gel Electrophoresis of DNA (revised 2009)
- Using the GelLogic Digital Image System