B’ru haba b’shem Adonai … Welcome Lord Jesus!

1. B’ru haba b’shem Adonai … Welcome Lord Jesus! Welcome students in the name of Jesus

2. Let’s look at the texts … • Biology: God’s Living Creation • Field and Laboratory Manual • Note: ok to look ahead at Lab Procedures • No written assignments in preparation for labs… but lab report sheets document completion of the lab. • Handle only lab equipment as needed for each lab when it is needed. Promptly replace items.

3. A special word about … Labs and the RKSI Project

4. “Road Kill” Scene Investigation Project “Common Sense” Guidelines • Don’t bring more than we will have time to dissect or space to store. Assume max of 2 weeks in refrigerator. Check lab schedule for appropriate dates. We’re already close to our storage limit. • Never collect without adult supervision. • Never physically touch a specimen without wearing protective gloves or using a collection bag. • Take care to protect eyes from biohazards • Practice cleanliness at all times … Wash your hands after every handling (even when wearing gloves)! And wash the specimen. Remember: Francis Bacon, the father of modern science, died from handling specimens.

5. Lab Safety • Never dissect a hand-held specimen. • Never use a scapel or cutting device with more than one cutting edge. • Never perform unauthorized experiments. • Follow directions outlined in Lab Manual verbatim and any special instructor directions. • Keep test tubes pointed away from yourself and others. • Never taste any chemicals or samples. • Follow Dissection lab rules.

6. Lab Rules • Touch nothing in the supply box except what is required for that lab. • Tell the teacher if you break something. • Communications should be in a whisper and should be only about the lab. • No laughing or talking between tables. • Stay in your seats at all times. • No playing or doing anything not related to the lab. • Raise your hand without calling the teacher’s name. • Take your lab manual with you to your lab table and answer the questions as you work.

7. Lab Rules specific to Dissections • Concerns: • The specimens you will dissect in this class will contain no blood and feel like plastic. • The holding fluid is not poisonous and has a mild odor, if any at all. • 1. Know the organs you see and remove no organs. • 2. Be careful and neat. • 3. Do not cut deeply. • 4. Go slowly. • 5. Use scalpel sparingly. • 6. Wash your hands when finished.

8. Chapter 1 The Flowering Seed Plants

9. 1.1 Intro to Biology • Biology – the study of living things • BIOS – ‘life’ • LOGY – ‘science of’ • Organisms – living things • Habitats – regions where particular organisms normally live • Our Study Methodology: reading, use of tools of science, field observations, collection/research methodologies, dissection of organisms, and scientific analysis and reporting.

10. Major Fields of Biology • BOTANY – the study of plants • ZOOLOGY – the study of animals • HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY- the physical structure and function of the human body NOT COVERED WELL IN THIS COURSE: • MICROBIOLOGY • GENETICS [GENOMETRICS, ETC.] • BIOMETRICS • ECOLOGY • DISEASE/DEATH – MORPHOLOGY • BIOCHEMISTRY • ETC.

11. Our Role in Biology • Romans 1:20 – For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. • Genesis 1:28 – And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea , and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” • “The whole earth growns awaiting the awakening of man!”

12. 1.2 Botany • Importance: 2/3 or food (directly); all really • Classification/Identification Parts of a Plant: • Flowers (Reproduction) • Leaves (Photosynthesis) • Stems (Classification due to fire) • Woody • Herbaceous • Vine (neither woody nor herbaceous) • Roots (Transport/storage) • Taproot • Fibrous • Vegetative reproduction (can look like either eg. Sand strawberry) • Name a few other parts of plants left out of this list.

13. Other Plant Parts • Fruits • Seeds

14. Leaves • Parts of a leaf: • Blade • Stalk (or petiole) • Midrib (on many leaves) • Three basic leaf shapes: • Broad, flat leaves • Leaf margins • Entire – smooth/unbroken • Toothed • Lobed • Long, narrow leaves • Needle-like or scalelike leaves • Compound leaves • Divisions • Leaflets

15. 3 Basic Leaf Shapes

16. Broad-Leaf Shapes

17. Leaf Margins

18. Compound Leafs

19. Homework • Review pp. 1-7 • Read pp. 8-12 • Answer p.18, questions 1,3,4 and 6