Biology 101
Check-In for Lab 1
DUE no later than 7 p.m. on Friday September 9.

In order to show that you studied this lab carefully, please email me at eminkoff bates.edu
with your NAME and the answers to the following 5 questions:
(No need to repeat the questions; the answers alone will do.)
(You should be able to answer all these questions if you have read the lab carefully.)

  • 1. The Yoruba of Nigeria had a traditional prevention for what disease?
  • 2. What was rolling out of his fireplace in August Kekule's nighmare?
  • 3. Hold a credit card, or a Massachusetts driver's license, so that you can read the information printed on it.
    To the nearest tenth of a centimeter, what is the longest dimension (left-to-right) of this card?
  • 4. Name two specific fields of science in which experiments are seldom used.  ("Experimental" sciences, by definition, are the ones that DO conduct experiments-- name several specific sciences that usually do NOT.)
  • 5. What chemist conducted experiments that confirmed Alexandr Oparin's theory?