Bio 100: Introduction to Scientific Analysis

 

Lecture: Tues 130-2:20 pm
Activity: Thurs 130-3:20 pm
Lab: no lab
Prerequisite: Bio 1, Bio 2, Stat 1 (or instructor permission)
Scheduling: Every semester, next offered Spring 2011
Units: 2
Website: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/colemanr/courses/bio100/bio100.html

Syllabus: WordPerfect document PDF Word html updated for Spring 2011

 

Catalog description:

BIO 100. Introduction to Scientific Analysis. The following concepts are addressed in this course: Anatomy of scientific literature, reading and writing scientific papers, proper citation formats, basic interpretation of tables and figures, graphical analysis, basic statistical analysis, experimental design to effectively test a hypothesis, effective presentation of an experiment. Lecture one hour. Activity two hours.
Prerequisite: BIO 1, BIO 2, and STAT 1.

Text: Barnard, C., F. Gilbert, P. McGregor (2007) Asking Questions in Biology. Third Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. ISBN 978-0-13-222435-2

 

 

 

Topic	Handouts	Video Tutorial (these are large files and take awhile to load)	Sample Output
Basic Spreadsheet in Excel 2007	wpd pdf	video tutorial	Excel spreadsheet
Graphing Using Excel 2007	wpd pdf	video tutorial	Excel spreadsheet

 

 

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