Unit One: Lab Exam Review

Module 01

• Understand basic lab safety, clean up and use of personal protection equipment (PPE)

  • General basic lab safety

    • No eating, drinking or anything of the such

    • Do not touch your face

    • Personal items are put away and not by your lab bench

    • Carefully follow all oral and written instructions, never performing unauthorized experiments

    • Always in dress code

    • Things that are touched with gloves should not be touched without gloves

  • Clean up

    • Disinfect bench after putting on PPE and before taking it off

    • Handle spills by notifying your instructor and disinfecting that area

    • Thoroughly wash hands before and after wearing gloves

  • Personal Protection Equipment and dress code

    • Closed toe shoes

    • Fairly form fitting clothes (no excessive baggy)

    • No long necklaces or lanyards

    • Long hair pulled back

    • Put on gloves first before any other PPE such as lab coat and goggles

    • Taking off PPE, gloves are taken off last

• Outline the safe practices when handling and disposing of biohazardous waste

  • Anything sharp such as needles, blades or broken glass they should be disposed in a sharps container

  • Contaminated items

    • Petri Plates, slides

    • Paper towels or anything else that have came in contact with a microorganisms

    • Used gloves

• Identify and describe the steps of the scientific method

  • Develop general theories

  • Make observations

  • Thinking of interesting questions

  • Formulate hypotheses

  • Develop testable predictions

  • Gather Data to test predictions

    • Refine, alter, expand or reject

    • Make a new hypotheses

• Differentiate among independent variables, dependant variables and controls in a scientific experiment

  • Independent variables are those that cause something

  • Dependent variables is what is being measured

  • Experimental groups are exposed to independent variables

  • Control group are exposed to the same as the experimental with the exception of an independent variable

Module 02

Module 03

Module 04

Module 05

Module 06