What is the Laboratory Safety Conduct?
All students must comply with these requirements:
1. Laboratory overalls must be worn while in the laboratory.
2. Covered shoes must be worn at all times in the laboratory.
3. Safety goggles must be worn when you work with any chemicals or work within 3m of anyone working with chemicals. This rule applies to laboratory users who are not wearing glasses.
4. All volatile solvents, acids, ammonia and smelly chemicals must be handled in the fume hoods to avoid building up of such volatile chemicals in the laboratory.
5. Broken glassware must be swept up immediately and placed in designated boxes for broken glasses.
6. Food and drinks must not be consumed in the laboratories
Good Laboratory Housekeeping and Procedures
What are some common equipment bench top items? (7 examples)
What are some common waste disposal bench top items? (4 examples)
What are examples of chemical safety and clean work? (2 examples)
What is a fume hood?
Ventilated box used when working with hazardous substances
What is a laminar flow hood?
Workspace with HEPA filter used to protect samples from contamination
(HEPA - high efficiency particle)
*Only laminar flow hood has HEPA filter to help maintain a sterile environment
What are some common symbols found in the lab? (5 examples)
What do you do after each lab session? (3 steps)
A. Proper use of micropipettes
How to withdraw fluid? (4 steps)
B. Proper use of micropipettes
How to expel sample into reaction tube? (4 steps)
C. Proper use of micropipettes
How to prevent cross contamination of reagents? (6 steps)
Practical 1 Lab Experiment
What is a micropipette?
The micropipette is a specialized tool that if properly used will allow you to accurately transfer small volumes of liquid.
Practical 1 Lab Experiment
What is a spectrophotometer?
A spectrophotometer is an instrument that measure the amount of light absorbed by molecules in a solution at a given wavelength.
It can be used to indirectly determine the amount of a compound present. The higher the concentration of the solutes in the solution, the greater will be the absorbance.
Practical 1 Lab Experiment
What is the range of a P200 micropipette and what coloured tip to use?
Range: 20 - 200 microliter
Tip: Yellow tips
Practical 1 Lab Experiment
What is the range of a P1000 micropipette and what coloured tip to use?
Range: 200 - 1000 microliter
Tip: Blue tips
Practical 1 Worksheet
Briefly describe how you would aspirate or draw up 1070 microliter of reagent using only two different micropipettes and least number of volume adjustments on the micropipette.
Practical 1 Worksheet
Given a stock solution of 5% KMNO4, show how you would prepare 200 microliter of a solution with a concentration of 0.5% KMNO4. Distilled water is used as a diluent.
C1V1 = C2V2
(C1 = starting concentration), (V1 = starting volume)
(C2 = final concentration), (V2 = final volume)
C1 = 5%, V1 = ? microliter
C2 = 0.5%, V2 = 200 microliter
C1V1 = C2V2
V1 = C2V2/C1 = 0.5% * 200 microliter / 5%
V1 = 20 microliter
Distilled water = 200 - 20 = 180 microliter
Therefore, add 20 microliter of 5% of KMNO4 solution to 180 microliter of distilled water to get 200 microliter of 0.5% KMNO4 final solution.
Practical 1 Assignment
What is the volume reading on this micropipette dial?
a) P200 => 067
b) P1000 => 020
c) P100 => 070
d) P1000 => 100
Volumes:
a) 67 microliter
b) 200 microliter
c) 70 microliter
d) 1000 microliter
Practical 1 Assignment
Fill in the following volume readings in the micropipette dial
a) P10 => 7.8 microliter
b) P200 => 167 microliter
c) P20 => 12.4 microliter
d) P100 => 34 microliter
Readings on dial:
a) 078
b) 167
c) 124
d) 034
Practical 1 Assignment
Given a stock solution of 2.5% KMNO4, show how you would prepare 150 microliter of a solution with a concentration of 0.5% KMNO. Distilled water is used as a diluent.
C1V1 = C2V2
(C1 = starting concentration), (V1 = starting volume)
(C2 = final concentration), (V2 = final volume)
C1 = 2.5%, V1 = ? microliter
C2 = 0.5%, V2 = 150 microliter
C1V1 = C2V2
V1 = C2V2/C1 = 0.5% * 150 microliter / 2.5%
V1 = 30 microliter
Distilled water = V2 - V1 = 150 - 30 = 120 microliter
Therefore, to prepare 150 microliter of solution with a concentration of 0.5% KMNO4, add 30 microliter of 2.5% KMNO4 to 120 microliter of distilled water.
Practical 2 Lab Experiment
What is a dissecting microscope?
A dissecting microscope can be used to examine larger objects and a compound microscope to view smaller specimens.
Practical 2 Lab Experiment
What is a compound microscope?
The compound microscope uses the magnifying powers of two lenses to produce a greatly enlarged image of structures too small to be viewed by the naked eye. Using the compound microscope, we can view plant and animal cells. Cell walls and plasma membranes and nuclei can be easily visualized.
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Disadvantage of compound microscope?
Most structures within the cell are too small to be resolved by the compound microscope. However, these can be resolved by the use of more powerful microscopes such as the electron microscope.