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Characteristics of Life Visualization Lab
STATION
CHARACTERISTIC
of LIFE
1. What is similar between mouse & human
DNA?
Station #1:
a. Mouse DNA model
b. Human DNA model
OBSERVED CHARACTERISTIC
UNIVERSAL
GENETIC CODE
2. What is different between mouse & human
DNA?
1. Sketch the embryo and baby fish.
Station #2:
Video: Zebrafish
GROWTH &
DEVELOPMENT
2. The yolk, attached to the embryo, gradually becomes
smaller as the embryo becomes a baby fish. What is the
purpose of the yolk?
1. Examine & sketch your lab partner’s iris & pupil.
Station #3:
Flashlight Pupil Response
RESPONSE TO
ENVIRONMENT
2. Turn on flashlight and shine in one eye for 20
seconds. Sketch lab partner’s iris & pupil.
3. Wait 1 minute and sketch lab partner’s iris & pupil.
1. Explain what is happening in Picture A.
Station #4:
a. Picture of Amoeba &
Paramecium
REPRODUCTION
2. Explain what is happening in Picture B.
1. Click “Closer Look” at each of the 3 temperatures,
then “Animate” to view the heart rate.
Station #5:
Daphnia –
2. Count and record the number of beats in 10 seconds
at each temperature:
HOMEOSTASIS
10oC - _____
20oC - ______
30oC - _______
3. How did the Daphnia respond to different
temperatures?
1. Why is the balloon on Test Tube B inflated and not on
Test Tube A? (Hint: oxygen + sugar→_____ + ______)
Station #6:
a. Test Tube A: yeast + water
METABOLISM
(USE ENERGY)
b. Test Tube B: yeast + water +
sugar
1. Sketch what you see for the cheek sample.
Station #7:
a. Cheek sample
CELLS
2. Sketch what you see for the onion sample.
b. Onion sample
3. What is similar in both samples?
4. What is different in both samples?
1. Explain what happened in the history of whales
based on the two pictures.
Station #8:
a. Land mammal-ancestor of
modern whales.
b. Modern whale
EVOLVE
2. Why would whales want to become aquatic
mammals instead of staying as land mammals?
3. What evidence is there in modern whales to indicate
it was once a land mammal?