Table of Contents
The Labs
| Curriculum Topic | Laboratory Experimentation Using Yeast | Algebra Connections |
| 1st Six weeks sesson | . | . |
| Characteristics of Living Organisms | What is Living? | Pattern identification, organizing data, constructing and interpreting data |
| Enzyme Activity | Temperature Effect on Yeast Catalase Enzyme | Distinquishing dependent and independent variables, dilutions, graphing |
| 2nd Six weeks sesson | . | . |
| Energy in Cells: Aerobic and Anaerobic Respiration | Constructing graphs, curve-fitting, statistical analysis, slopes, rates, probe technology | |
| Genetics |
Classroom Guide to Yeast Experiments Thomas Mauney (Carolina Biological) |
Counting, t-test, crosses, prediction, punnet squares, statistical analysis |
| 3rd Six weeks sesson | . | . |
| Population Ecology | Student Projects on Effects of (pollution, food, predators) on Yeast Population | Measurement, data collection, graphical analysis, statistical analysis |
| 4th Six weeks sesson | . | . |
| Industrial Microbiology | Biology of Bread | Concentrations, amounts, ratios, units/conversions |
| 5th Six weeks sesson | . | . |
| Evolution/Natural Selection | Refine Student projects | . |
| 6th Six weeks sesson | . | . |
| Plants and Fungi | The Wild Yeast | . |
| Yeast Impact on Human Biology | Yeast and other Microbial Diseases | . |