Volume 50, Number 1, December 2003:
A Toxicology Primer for Student Inquiry:
Biological Smoke Detectors

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Date modified: January 19, 2011

A Toxicology Primer for Student Inquiry:
Biological Smoke Detectors
by Charles Drewes

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author
- acknowledgements

IN THIS ISSUE
- disclaimer, objectives
- "biological smoke detectors"
- purpose of invertebrate toxicity testing
- lethal and sublethal effects
- some wormy ideas for toxicity testing
- sublethal chemical effects in lumbriculus
- selecting the chemical(s)
- safety
- exposure methods
- preliminary experiments and concentration range-finding
- final stages of toxicity testing
- typical equipment and supplies
- other organisms, other ideas
- obtaining background information
- references
- glossary of toxicological terms

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