Biology

BIOLOGY

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GENERAL REFERENCE MATERIALS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
TUTORIALS, ASK AN EXPERT, AND MESSAGE BOARDS
BASICS OF BIOLOGY
PLANTS
ANIMALS
LINKS SITES

GENERAL REFERENCE MATERIALS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum
http://www.accessexcellence.org/

Biologists Discover Amazing Things
http://www.faseb.org/opar/poster/a_page.html

Biology Hypertext Review - another resource out of MIT, with thumbnail chapters on various biology topics
http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/chapters.html

The Biology Page- high school biology page with information, slides, and video exhibits
http://www.d91.k12.id.us/www/skyline/teachers/robertsd/bio.htm

The Earth Life Web
http://www.earthlife.net/index.html

Frank Potter's Science Gems - Life Science I - interesting site with information and links
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/life.html

Investigating Science Online - course outlines for biology and AP biology with exam information
http://www.users.nac.net/challoran/

Nature - selected articles from the journal Nature
http://www.nature.com/

North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
http://www.naturalsciences.org

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Home Page
http://www.mnh.si.edu/nmnhweb.html

TUTORIALS, ASK AN EXPERT, AND MESSAGE BOARDS

Academic Assistance Access - a homework helper where you (and others) email questions and everyone receives back by email the answers to all questions asked. You have to join the email list, which is free and fast, and designate the area in which you are joining, which includes high school subjects, including science, and college subjects, including biology
http://www.tutoraid.org/faq/

Access Excellence - a national educational program sponsored by the biotechnology company Genentech, Inc., that puts high school biology teachers in touch with their colleagues, scientists and critical sources of new scientific information through an online network
http://www.gene.com/ae/

AP Biology - information about the course, exam, previous years' essay questions, lab hints, and an exam workshop
http://apbio.biosci.uga.edu/index.html

Mad Scientist Network - Online expert answers to your science questions in over twenty-five areas of science, and you get to state the level at which you are studying so the response is appropriate to your level of information. Also has archives so you can check previously asked and answered questions
http://www.madsci.org/current.html

BASICS OF BIOLOGY

The Big Picture Book of Viruses - with a large alphabetically arranged collection of viral images and information on the taxonomy, genome, and morphology of various viruses
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/Big_Virology/BVVirusList.html

Bio Online - microbiology and industry
http://www.bio.com/resedu/resedu.html

BioTech's Life Science Dictionary - a online dictionary of terms in cell biology, genetics, botany, and other related fields
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html

Biotech - educational resource and reference tool, featuring a dictionary, a textbook supplement, consumer reports, and educational pages. Aimed at high school students and the public.
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/

Cells Alive! - great page on cellular biology, with videos
http://www.cellsalive.com/

Diatoms, Nature's Marbles - site about the one-celled plants that can look like snowflakes, mandalas, geometric patterns, and yes, marble. Norwegian server can be slow, however.
http://hjs.geol.uib.no/Diatoms/index.html-ssi

DNA from the Beginning -an interactive explanation of DNA; you can enter as guest or register, it is free
http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/

MathMol: Molecular Modeling - the quick tour is just right for high school students
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/

Medical BioChemistry - terrific site from the University of Kansas
http://www.kumc.edu/biochemistry/bioc800/syllframe.html

Meiosis and Mendelian Genetics - tutorial on the relationship between chromosome movements in meiosis and the segregation of alleles in meiosis
http://mentor.lscf.ucsb.edu/mcdb4a/meiosis.htm

The MendelWeb - genetics page
http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/

The Microbe Files
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~hurlbert/

Molecular Biology - small links page
http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~aisoai/index.html

Nanoworld World Home Page - images from electron microscope, click on image gallery
http://www.uq.oz.au/nanoworld/nanohome.html

A Primer on Molecular Genetics – human genome, chromosomes, DNA, genes, with online discussion leading to more advanced material
http://www.gdb.org/Dan/DOE/intro.html

University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Page - incredible on-line exhibits and links to science pages; information on all kinds of animals and bacteria; click to get well-organized detailed information on arachaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, viruses, chromists, fungi, protists, flowers, animals, and vertebrates
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/taxaform.html

Virtual Cell - manipulate a cell image, with information about cells available with search tool
http://ampere.scale.uiuc.edu/~m-lexa/cell/cell.html

PLANTS

American Museum of Natural History Expedition - using a branching tree structure to discuss the cladistic structure of the fossil information.
http://www.amnh.org/Exhibition/Expedition/Fossils/

Botanical Gardens and Arboreta - links to web pages of gardens worldwide
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/introhtml/botgard.html

Botany.Com, the Encyclopedia of Plants - really a gardening site but there is information about various plants
http://www.botany.com/

Internet Directory of Resources in Botany - links to hundreds of specialized botanical sites divided by subject (alphabetical list available but less useful)
http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botmenu.html

Natural Conservation Research Service Home Page
http://www.ncg.nrcs.usda.gov/Welcome.html

ANIMALS

The Amazing World of Birds
http://www.bird-world.earthlife.net/intro.html

Audubon
http://www.audubon.org/

Bird Links: links about birds
http://www.audubon.org/bird/link/

The Cyber Zoomobile
http://www.primenet.com/~brendel/

Developmental Biology Cinema - videos of developing embryos. Changing selection has included movies of mutant fly embryogenesis, quail-chick chimeras.
http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/dbcinema/

Dissect a Sheep’s Brain
http://academic.uofs.edu/department/psych/sheep/

The Earth Life Web
http://www.earthlife.net/index.html

Endangered Species Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
http://www.fws.gov/~r9endspp/endspp.html

Entomology for Beginners
http://www1.bos.nl/homes/bijlmakers/entomology/begin.htm

Fish Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.wh.whoi.edu/homepage/faq.html

Insect Drawings - click on the thumbnail drawings for larger, details drawings
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/Entomology/insectgifs.html

The Interactive Frog Dissection - interactive tutorial, the dissection of a multimedia frog. Site can be slow
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/

Internet Resource Guide for Zoology - with links to other pages
http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/gp_index.htm

Mammal Species of the World, Smithsonian site
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/msw/

Primate Gallery
http://www.selu.com/~bio/PrimateGallery/

Sea World's Animal Resources - Selected species with photos
http://www.seaworld.org/infobook.html

Threatened Animals of the World
http://www.wcmc.org.uk/data/database/rl_anml_combo.html

The Tree of Life - phylogenetic biology, with photos and info on the organisms that make up the tree of life
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
http://www-itg.lbl.gov/vfrog/

The Wonderful World of Insects - immense amount of material on insects, their anatomy, social habits and evolution. Not a particularly well organized site.
http://www.insect-world.com/main/six.html

World Wildlife Fund Global Network
http://www.panda.org/home.htm

LINKS SITES

AP Biology Links - information and links useful in the course and for the exam
http://brooks.pvt.k12.ma.us/~bheun/ap.html

Benjamin Franklin High School's Links to Biology Info - extensive links list subdivided by topics
http://home.gnofn.org/~bfsenior/biology.htm

BioWeb - California State University - links to online resources
http://130.17.2.215/

Biology - links to online resources by the U.S. Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/network/science/biology/index.html

Internet Directory of Resources in Botany - links to hundreds of specialized botanical sites divided by subject (alphabetical list available but less useful)
http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botmenu.html

Internet Resource Guide for Zoology - with links to other pages
http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/gp_index.htm

Molecular Biology - small links page
http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~aisoai/index.html