Laboratory Equipment to Initiate an Integrated Junior-year Course in Investigative Biology.

该项目为生物学专业的初中生提供基础培训 在科学研究的设计，执行和评估中， 学期课程名为调查生物学。 第一学期 包括一般原理和样品性能的讨论 使用显微镜进行各种生物领域的实验， 其他设备用于相对简单的调查。 第二 一个学期包括一个研究项目的设计和执行 从光感受器生理学的领域，使用一些模型实验 使用电子探针、放大器、分析/记录设备， 计算机来处理数据。 学生们正在学习 光的时间、强度和波长的生理效应 几种类型的光感受器。

The project is providing Junior-level Biology majors with basic training in the design, execution and evaluation of scientific research in a two- semester course entitled Investigative Biology. The first semester includes discussions of general principles and the performance of sample experiments from a variety of biological areas using oscilloscopes and other equipment for relatively simple investigations. The second semester consists of the design and performance of a research project from the area of photoreceptor physiology, using some model experiments with the electronic probes, amplifiers, analysis/recording devices and computers to process the data. The students are studying the physiological effects of the timing, intensity and wavelength of light on several types of photoreceptors.