61 Brilliant Biology Experiments

You will need: 9 slices of apple 9 volunteers 9 chewing gums : fruit-flavoured mint-flavoured cinnamon-flavoured Pen and paper Ear buds/cotton swabs Preparation of agar or jelly in petri dish Labels, water, clock It is time to decide whether chewing gum is healthy or not once and for all by this simple experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Ask […]

You will need: Plastic container Ear buds, Ruler, Tweezers Latex gloves Paint brush (small size) Small pouch of cocoa powder Magnifying glass Evidence markers (cut out from square pieces of paper) Note pad and pen You can create your very own detective CSI kit. Let us find out. INSTRUCTIONS Place all the items mentioned above

You will need: Vanilla essence Apple Cotton ball Blindfold It’s time to befool your tongue with thissimple experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Blindfold a friend and give him a slice of apple. Ask him to eat it. Next, take a few drops of vanilla essence on a cotton ball and hold it as close to his nose as

You will need: Mp3 player with some relaxing music Blindfold Clock and stopwatch 5 cans of a caffeinated drink 5 cans of a non-caffeinated version of the same drink Pen, paper and tape Volunteers, room, stool Conduct this simple experiment to find out howcaffeine affects the heart and your pulse rate. INSTRUCTIONS First, learn to

You will need: q Blindfoldq Stopwatch or timerq Ear plugsq Coloured tapeq Protractorq Pen, felt-tip pen and paperq Chair and metre scaleq Volunteers Conduct this experiment to understand what it means to use monaural or binaural information to localize the origin of sound. INSTRUCTIONS                 1. Create two data sheets (Group 1 & Group 2)

You will need: 8 fresh slices of bread (4 toasted and 4 untoasted) 16 plastic zip-lock bags Sterile gloves Labels and pens Spray water bottle Liquid soap Hand sanitizer Would a soap or sanitizer stop the growth of moulds on bread? Find out with this experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Put on sterile gloves and cut 4 toasted

You will need: A very complicated mathematical test sheet Stopwatch Pen and paper Thermometer A volunteer Conduct this experiment and find out how stress affects the body and its temperature. INSTRUCTIONS Before beginning the experiment, take the temperature of your test subject and ask him to rate how stressed he feels on a scale of

You will need: Bath tub or large tub Hot water Cold water Blood pressure monitor Pen and paper Stopwatch Find out whether blood pressure would increase or decrease in hot water. INSTRUCTIONS Learn to record blood pressure with the blood pressure monitor from an adult. Once you have mastered that, record the blood pressure of

You will need: Plastic bottle (3 litres) Deep plastic bowl Measuring cup Marker Plastic tubing (12 inches long) Scissors Water Find out through this simple experiment abouthow the lung capacity of each person variesdepending on his age and gender. INSTRUCTIONS Create a spirometer by taking plastic bottle and pouring 60 ml of water into it.

You will need: Blood pressure monitor Pen and paper Toothpicks Action video game and console Stopwatch Ball TV The next time your parents tell you to stop playing video games and study, tell them that is exactly what you are doing! INSTRUCTIONS                 1. The video game you select should be action-packed.                 2. Note

You will need: Marker 2 paper cups 1 red marble 3 green marbles Pen and paper Find out how the law of averages plays an importantrole in determining the gender of a person. INSTRUCTIONS Write ‘Ova’ on one cup and ‘Sperm’ on the other cup. Place 2 green marbles inside the cup labelled ‘Ova’, and

You will need: q Measuring tapeq Notebookq Penq Subjects Do you know that a good nights’ sleep can do a lot more than just refresh your senses? INSTRUCTIONS Distribute the experiment among your friends with each one having 1 test subject. As soon as the test subject wakes up, he should measure his height precisely.

You will need: q Item of food (buttered bread, etc.)q Sterile cotton swabsq Sterile glovesq Timerq Prepared gelatineq 6 sterile glass jar containers Perform this experiment to find out whether picking up food-items within 5 seconds actually makes a difference or not. INSTRUCTIONS Firstly, wear the sterile gloves. Then sterilize the glass jars and set

You will need: q Red and black chew sticksq Coloured marshmallowsq Gummy bearsq Toothpicksq Needle, String & Scissors Through this experiment have fun understanding your DNA. INSTRUCTIONS The coloured marshmallows and gummy bears represent the nucleotide bases which make up your DNA. There should be four different colours which constitute the adenine, cytosine, guanine and

You will need: q 30 blank index cardsq Black markerq Coloured pensq Volunteers Conduct a simple experiment to find out what important role colours play in our retention capacity. INSTRUCTIONS                 1. Divide the index cards into 3 groups— A, B and C.                 2. Write down not very well-known historical dates once each on