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LAB REPORT GUIDELINES & RUBRIC

Once you have completed your lab study, you will need to prepare an investigation report, using your own words. Your report should include three sections and provide answers to the following questions:

Section 1: Introduction
What question were you trying to answer and why? (Hint: For the "why," refer to the introduction of your lab. This will help you to determine the background information necessary to answer your guiding question. In other words, why is the guiding question important to your understanding of chemistry?)

Section 2: Method
What did you do during your investigation and why did you conduct your investigation in this way?

Section 3: Argument
What is your argument?

Please refer to our LAB REPORT RUBRIC for more details about how each section and the overall paper will be assessed.

Be sure to write in a persuasive style; you are trying to convince others that your claim is acceptable or valid.

Please abide by the following formatting requirements:

• When titling your paper, put the following in the header on every page, aligned to the right: Your Name, INTRO TO BIOCHEM 806-186, and the due date. Then begin your paper with our lab title, centered.

Your Name INTRO TO BIOCHEM 806-186 Date Due Lab Title Introduction         Introduce your lab study here. Introduce your lab study here. Introduce your lab study here. Introduce your lab study here. Introduce your lab study here. Introduce your lab study here. Method         Discuss your method here. Discuss your method here. Discuss your method here. Discuss your method here. Discuss your method here. Discuss your method here.         Discuss your method here. Discuss your method here. Discuss your method here. Discuss your method here. Discuss your method here.

• Your report should answer the three questions listed above in two pages or less.
• The report must be typed and any diagrams, figures, or tables should be embedded into the document.
  • NOTE: For the degree symbol in Google doc: choose the "Insert" menu, choose "Special Characters," then choose the "Symbol" drop down menu and "Miscellaneous" drop down menu. The degree symbol is at the top of the symbol screen.
• In the way of paragraph spacing, please use 1.5 rather than single or double. Also, please indent the first line of each paragraph 0.5 of an inch.

LAB SAFETY

Flinn Scientific Student Safety Contract

LAB STUDIES LIST, TENTATIVE FOR 2022-2023

1. CHAPTER 10, ACIDS AND BASES
   Buffers Keep the Balance: Properties of Biological Buffers
   Modified from Source: Flinn Scientific, Inc.
2. CHAPTER 19, CARBOHYDRATES
   Introduction to Carbohydrates: Structure and Properties
   Modified from Source: Flinn Scientific, Inc.
3. CHAPTER 20, LIPIDS
   Melting and Freezing Points
   Modified from Source: Argument-Driven Inquiry in Chemistry, Lab 9
4. CHAPTER 21, PROTEINS
   Isolation of a Protein
   Modified from Source: Flinn Scientific, Inc.
5. CHAPTER 22, ENZYMES
   Enzyme Optimization
   Modified from Source: Flinn Scientific, Inc.
6. CHAPTER 23, NUCLEIC ACIDS
   Chemical Testing of DNA
   Modified from Source: Flinn Scientific, Inc.
7. CHAPTER 24, METABOLISM AND ENERGY
   Sodium Alginate Respiration
   Modified from Source: Flinn Scientific, Inc.