Lab Manual Instructor’s Guide to Accompany
Agriscience
Fundamentals and Applications
6th Edition
Renée Peugh
Walter York
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Contents
To the Teacher vii
General Safety Guidelines viii
Personal Protective Equipment ix
Understanding Chemical Hazards ix
Storing Chemicals x
Material Safety Data Sheets xi
Emergency Procedures xi
Understanding Biological Hazards xii
Working with Dissection Materials xii
Section 1 Agriscience in the Information Age
Exercise 1 There’s a Method to the Madness—The Scientific Method 1
Exercise 2 Getting Up Close and Personal—The Microscope 2
Exercise 3 It’s Alive!—The Cell 4
Exercise 4 Don’t Drink the Water—An Insight into Water Safety 5
Exercise 5 How Degrading—Maintaining a Healthy Environment 7
Section 2 You and the New Millennium
Exercise 6 Get a Job—Your Career in Agriscience 9
Exercise 7 Experience Required—Your SAE 10
Exercise 8 Show Me the Way—Leadership in Agriscience 11
Section 3 Natural Resources Management
Exercise 9 Watts the Big Deal—Creating Electricity Out of Thin Air 13
Exercise 10 Getting Down and Dirty—Preventing Soil Erosion 14
Exercise 11 Talking Dirty—Soil Fertility 15
Exercise 12 Hold the Soil Please—Growing Plants without Soil 16
Exercise 13 There’s Something Fishy Here—Fish Anatomy 17
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Section 4 Integrated Pest Management
Exercise 14 Are You a Competitor?—Weed Identification Lab 21
Exercise 15 Don’t Bug Me—Insect Anatomy 22
Exercise 16 Stuck on You—External Parasites 24
Section 5 Plant Sciences
Exercise 17 Putting Down Some Roots—Root Anatomy 27
Exercise 18 It Stems From—Stem Anatomy 29
Exercise 19 Turn Over a New Leaf—Leaf Anatomy 31
Exercise 20 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not—Flower Anatomy 32
Exercise 21 Under the Knife—Flower Dissection 33
Exercise 22 Free Gas Made Here—Photosynthesis 34
Exercise 23 Transpiration—Nature’s Big Gulp 35
Exercise 24 Reap What You Sow—Seed Anatomy 36
Exercise 25 Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are—
Requirements for Seed Germination. 38
Exercise 26 Let’s See What You Are Made Of—DNA Extraction 39
Section 6 Crop Science
Exercise 27 We Are Here, We Are Here, We Are Here—Soil
Organisms 41
Exercise 28 A Good Start—Growing and Transplanting Vegetable
Seedlings 42
Exercise 29 Try That On for Size—Grafting Fruit Trees 43
Exercise 30 From Fries to Fuel—Making Biodiesel 44
Exercise 31 Deep Thoughts—Exploring Seed Planting Depths 45
Exercise 32 Does This Smell Good?—Storing Silage 46
Exercise 33 Stop Buggen Me—Insect Collection 47
Section 7 Ornamental Use of Plants
Exercise 34 Keep ’em in the Dark—Plants and Light 49
Exercise 35 Chip Off the Old Block—Plant Cloning 50
© 2014 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part.
Agriscience
Fundamentals and Applications
6th Edition
Renée Peugh
Walter York
,
, iii
Contents
To the Teacher vii
General Safety Guidelines viii
Personal Protective Equipment ix
Understanding Chemical Hazards ix
Storing Chemicals x
Material Safety Data Sheets xi
Emergency Procedures xi
Understanding Biological Hazards xii
Working with Dissection Materials xii
Section 1 Agriscience in the Information Age
Exercise 1 There’s a Method to the Madness—The Scientific Method 1
Exercise 2 Getting Up Close and Personal—The Microscope 2
Exercise 3 It’s Alive!—The Cell 4
Exercise 4 Don’t Drink the Water—An Insight into Water Safety 5
Exercise 5 How Degrading—Maintaining a Healthy Environment 7
Section 2 You and the New Millennium
Exercise 6 Get a Job—Your Career in Agriscience 9
Exercise 7 Experience Required—Your SAE 10
Exercise 8 Show Me the Way—Leadership in Agriscience 11
Section 3 Natural Resources Management
Exercise 9 Watts the Big Deal—Creating Electricity Out of Thin Air 13
Exercise 10 Getting Down and Dirty—Preventing Soil Erosion 14
Exercise 11 Talking Dirty—Soil Fertility 15
Exercise 12 Hold the Soil Please—Growing Plants without Soil 16
Exercise 13 There’s Something Fishy Here—Fish Anatomy 17
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Section 4 Integrated Pest Management
Exercise 14 Are You a Competitor?—Weed Identification Lab 21
Exercise 15 Don’t Bug Me—Insect Anatomy 22
Exercise 16 Stuck on You—External Parasites 24
Section 5 Plant Sciences
Exercise 17 Putting Down Some Roots—Root Anatomy 27
Exercise 18 It Stems From—Stem Anatomy 29
Exercise 19 Turn Over a New Leaf—Leaf Anatomy 31
Exercise 20 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not—Flower Anatomy 32
Exercise 21 Under the Knife—Flower Dissection 33
Exercise 22 Free Gas Made Here—Photosynthesis 34
Exercise 23 Transpiration—Nature’s Big Gulp 35
Exercise 24 Reap What You Sow—Seed Anatomy 36
Exercise 25 Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are—
Requirements for Seed Germination. 38
Exercise 26 Let’s See What You Are Made Of—DNA Extraction 39
Section 6 Crop Science
Exercise 27 We Are Here, We Are Here, We Are Here—Soil
Organisms 41
Exercise 28 A Good Start—Growing and Transplanting Vegetable
Seedlings 42
Exercise 29 Try That On for Size—Grafting Fruit Trees 43
Exercise 30 From Fries to Fuel—Making Biodiesel 44
Exercise 31 Deep Thoughts—Exploring Seed Planting Depths 45
Exercise 32 Does This Smell Good?—Storing Silage 46
Exercise 33 Stop Buggen Me—Insect Collection 47
Section 7 Ornamental Use of Plants
Exercise 34 Keep ’em in the Dark—Plants and Light 49
Exercise 35 Chip Off the Old Block—Plant Cloning 50
© 2014 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part.
