Welcome to the Biology Links... The links on this page are organized by topics for use by my Biology students. The last several sets of topics are an assortment of Biology sites and sites which lead to collections of links. Construction doesn't stop. I hope you will ignore the mess in places.
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TEXT - PUBLISHER LINKS
AP BIOLOGY - CAMPELL 7th ed. (current text)
AP BIOLOGY - RAVEN 6th ed. (old text)
AP BIOLOGY WORKBOOK - BIOZONE - good collection, topics organized into groups, go to "Bio Links"
ESSEX BIO 110 - SOLOMON, BERG, and MARTIN
ESSEX BIO 110 - Former text: AUDESIRK, etc. LIFE ON EARTH 7th
ANATOMY L1 - HOLE'S ESSENTIALS OF HUMAN ANATOMOY & PHYSIOLOGY
ANATOMY L2 - UNDERSTANDING HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY by Mader
BONAVENTURE BIOLOGY - BSCS BIOLOGY
CUPERTINO BIOLOGY - BIOLOGY: DYNAMICS OF LIFESCI LINKS
LIFE: THE SCIENCE OF BIOLOGY - PURVES, etc.
ESTRELLA MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ONLINE TEXT BOOK
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
SCIENTIFIC METHOD - good frog deformity problem
SCIENTIFIC METHOD - good cricket virtual lab
SCIENTIFIC METHOD - Interesting historical perspective
CHEMISTRY - INORGANIC/ORGANIC
WORKBENCH - PROTEIN EXPLORER - There are several sites here. We will use "Protein Explorer" about half way down the page. You will need to download the "Chime" plug in. The link in on the site.
AMINO ACID/PROTEIN STRUCTURE - excellent site on protein structure by Kyrk
PROTEIN FOLDING - info on protein folding/synthesis
MOLECULAR LOGIC CONCORD SITE - Animations, benchmarks, standards, etc.
PERIODIC CHART - Chemicool
PERIODIC CHART - David's Whizzy Chart
PERIODIC CHART - Chemical Elements.com
PERIODIC CHART - WebElements
PERIODIC CHART - Lenntech
NOBEL CHEMISTRY SITE - NobelPrize.org
PROTEIN DATA BANK - You can find information and images on individual proteins.
CELLS
CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION - good useable review for cell by Kyrk
MEMBRANE STRUCTURE - nice information
ENDOSYMBIOSIS - animated and explained
LYSOSOMES ANIMATION - animation from McGraw-Hill - lysosomes, Golgi body, ER, vesicles
MOLECULAR MOVEMENT
DIFFUSION ANIMATION - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Mike DeMarco
DIFFUSION OSMOSIS - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Deanna Swartzfager
PROTEIN CHANNELS - Excellent info on protein channels from Nobel Prize in Chem site - Peter Agre
ENERGY TRANSFORMATION REACTIONS
GLYCOLYSIS - AP level by Kyrk
GLYCOLYSIS - 3 Good Sequential Animations by Cooper
KREBS CITRIC ACID CYCLE - AP level by Kyrk
KREBS CITRIC ACID CYCLE - 4 Good Sequential Animations by Cooper
ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN - AP level by Kyrk
ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN - 3 Good Sequential Animations by Cooper
PHOTOSYNTHESIS ANIMATION, TUTORIAL - Good upper level tutorial
DNA, RNA, PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
GEL ELECTROPHORESIS ANIMATION - good
GEL ELECTROPHORESIS ANIMATION: short simple repeating animation
VIRTUAL DNA LAB - good virtual lab: DNA Fingerprint, Restriction Enz., Electrophoresis, PCR, Southern Blotting
DNA - DNAi an impressive site - time line and many links for exploring DNA, its functions, and modern technology
DNA STRUCTURE - very simplistic; very short (about 30 sec.)
DNA STRUCTURE - AP level by Kyrk
DNA TRANSCRIPTION - good by Kyrk
DNA TRANSLATION - AP level by Kyrk
DNA STRUCTURE - great site by PBS NOVA - intro program is like Powers of Ten
PROTEIN SYNTHESIS - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Deanna Swartzfager
DNA STRUCTURE DISCOVERY 50th ANNIVERSARY Watson and Crick's 50th anniversary commemoration
WATSON AND CRICK'S PAPER - Nature journal paper announcing the structure of DNA.
HUMAN GENOME PROJECT - Government web site on the Human Genome Project
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - animated tutorials in molecular biology
HUMAN GENOME PROJECT - good source of info
BIOETHICS
McGrawHill CASE STUDIES - assorted topics
U of Penn. Center for Bioethics - current topics and information
U of Penn. High School Bioethics Site - check in page
MITOSIS, MEIOSIS
CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE - by Kyrk
CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE - great site by PBS NOVA
SEA URCHIN EMBRYOLOGY - assorted urchin embryology materials
HUMAN DEVELOPMENTAL ANATOMY CENTER - photos at various times of human development
EMBRYOLOGY IMAGES - photos and diagrams of mammalian development
GENETICS
PUNNETT SQUARE - Monohybrid Cross - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Mike DeMarco
PUNNETT SQUARE - Dihybrid Cross - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Mike DeMarco
GENETICS WEB LAB - Student Interactive Site: Mendel, Inc. Dom., Hardy Weinberg, Dragon Meiosis, DNA, Natural Selection
PRACTICE PROBLEMS FROM U. ARIZONA - good practice problems and tutorial
PRACTICE GENETICS PROBLEMS - multiple choice word problems
MORE GENETICS PROBLEMS - more practice genetics problems
BOTANY
PLANTS IN MOTION - Movie clips of plant activities
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA - Collection of sites
NATIONAL BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE - Botany links by grade
SCIENCE AND PLANTS - SAPS Chromatography
EVOLUTION
ORIGINS OF LIFE - complex site AP level
ENDOSYMBIOSIS - animated and explained
PEPPERED MOTH ANIMATION - nice animation - useful in class
PBS TV - the Evolution Program - the general Program area, has some GREAT ANIMATIONS...
PBS TV - the Evolution Program - “Darwin” area - click on the “Origins of Species” link, good animation
PBS TV - the Evolution Program - Deep Time/History of LIfe
EVOLUTION RESOURCE SITE - try the Links and Downloads
DARWIN AWARDS - great jokes
EVOLUTION, ORIGIN OF LIFE, DNA - reference site
UNDERSTANDING EVOLUTION - another reference site
DINOSAUR EGGS by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - interesting site on dinosaur eggs - worth a look! ml
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
FOOD CHAIN FLASH ANIMATION - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Mike DeMarco
SUCCESSIOIN OF STAGES IN AN ECOSYSTEM - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Heidi Campbell
HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH - Good info pages from Kimbel Online
ENVIRONMENTAL LINKS - Good Environmental Linksi
CLASSIFICATION
VIRAL LYTIC CYCLE - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Stacey Knox
BACTERIA - NASA site
STEM CELLS/CANCER
STEM CELL/CANCER - Video Lectures from MIT
STEM CELL/CANCER - Animations
MICROBIOLOGY/PROKARYOTES
GRAM STAINING - "Pink Bugs, Purple Bugs" - good simple lab site
GRAM STAIN/PROK ID - staining and bacterial classification site
INSECTS
INSECTS - GENERAL INORMATION - General information on insects
LINKS TO EACH INSECT ORDER - Great resource for project
ANATOMY
TUTORIAL ENTRY PAGE - outstanding tutorial from GateWay Community College, AZ
ANATOMY SITES - links to Dr. Crimando's Anatomy pages at GateWay Community College, AZ
HISTOLOGY - TISSUES - USC School of Dentistry - good visual material
HISTOLOGY - TISSUES - Loyola University Medical Education Network - good photo images
ONLINE ANATOMY TESTS - University of Wisconsin Dept. of Biology
HORMONES AND TARGET CELLS INTERACTIONS - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Ellen Lathrop-Davis
NEUROTRANSMITTER COMMUNICATION - Essex Perfect Little Programs Ellen Latrhop Davis
NEUROTRANSMITTERS AND CELLS - Essex Perfect Little Programs, Ellen Lathrop DavisA & P 1 LINKS - large collection of links for anatomy and physiology
A & P 2 LINKS - large collection of links for anatomy and physiology
MUSCLE, SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY - good animation of muscle cell, Ca++, 4 muscle proteins, more
NEURONS, ACTION POTENTIAL - good animation of myelin and nonmyelinated neuron impulse
NEURON - good interactive animation
MEMBRANE CHANNEL PROTEINS (FD) AND GRAPH - good animation of Na+/K+ diffusion and membrane potential graph
NEUROBIOLOGY by G. MATTHEWS - good resource for animation, references, illustrations, etc.
SHEEP BRAIN INTERACTIVE - interactive tutorial for the sheep brain with pictures
NET ANATOMY - photos of organs and regions from assorted angles
BRAIN SCIENCE COLLECTION - useable collection of links for nervous system/brain science
MADLABS VISIBLE HUMAN - quick time animations along x, y, or z axis
VISIBLE HUMAN - allows sections along x, y, or z axis
VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT - NLM NIH jump site for project
VISIBLE HUMAN - guided tour of project
VIRTUAL BODY - illustrated animations of brain, skeleton, heart, digestive tract
ESKELETONS - comparisons of primate skeletons - organisms, parts, and angles are selectable
http://www.biology.eku.edu/RITCHISO/301notes3.htm - excellent site: diagrams, animations, written descriptions
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/M/Muscles.html - good site! One illustration showing Ca++ getting to the sarcomere is especially good.
http://webanatomy.net/anatomy/muscle2_notes.htm - lecture notes with good diagram links
http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~malmivuo/bem/bembook/02/02.htm - good information early in this paper.
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/muscle.htm
ATLAS OF THE BODY - AMA website
http://biology.about.com/od/humananatomybiology/
US NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE ANATOMY SITE - collection of information for learning anatomy
BIOLOGY LAB SITES
LABBENCH BIOLOGY LABS - 12 online Biology labs - Prentice Hall
KIMMUNITY AP BIOLOGY LABS - http://bio.kimunity.com/ap_biology/labs/
ENZYME PINEAPPLE LAB - Interesting pineapple enzyme lab
ASSORTED SCIENCE SITES - BIOLOGY RELATED
BIOLOGY ZONE - AP BIO RESOURCE SITE
AP BIOLOGY EXAM ESSAYS - AP Biology exam questions from previous years indexed by year and topics
NOBEL FOUNDATION SITE - Nobel prize information, interactive labs and information links
BIOLOGY ANIMATIONS - Children's Hospital Boston (Good): stem cells, cancer, proteomics, neurons, and more
BIOLOGY ANIMATIONS - Stolaf's Good animations and movies
BIOLOGY ANIMATIONS AND TUTORIALS - GOOD animations and movies http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/bio1int.htm#top
TEACHERS DOMAIN - Outstanding videos, documents, animations, etc.
VIDEO SEGMENTS from VCU. SECRETS OF THE SEQUENCE - up to date streaming videos
MERLOT - Wide assortment of reference materials, animations, etc. for Science, Biology, etc.
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE-NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH - This is the "front page" to the web site. Everyone/every family will find uses for the information found here.
NLM-NIH INFORMATION - National Library of Medicine-National Institute of Health Information
NLM-NIH EDUCATION - Education Link for National Library of Medicine-National Institute of Health. From here you can make options to obtain any stored amino acid sequence or nucleotide sequence.
The NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY - Information web site
INTERACTIVE CLONING ANIMATION - Good animation
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION - The CDC website
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - The WHO website
BIOLOGICA - interactive biology activities
http://www.guilford.k12.ct.us/~faitschb/
THE WHOLE FROG PROJECT - online frog dissection site
BIOLOGY TEACHER RESOURCES - Baylor college of medicine
SICKLE CELL ANEMIA VIDEO - PBS Evolution clip
LINKS TO COLLECTIONS OF SITES
JOHN KIMBALL TABLE OF CONTENTS - excellent organized collection of topics
JOHN KYRK TABLE OF CONTENTS - excellent animations index
BIOLOGY COLLECTION - large moderately organized collection
A & P 1 LINKS - large collection of links for anatomy and physiology
A & P 2 LINKS - large collection of links for anatomy and physiology
PERFECT LITTLE PROGRAMS - Essex - numerous flash animations are housed here.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~tareilaj/biology2.html
BIOZONE - associated with AP Biology workbook, good collection, topics organized into groups, go to "Bio Links"
http://www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca/links/Science/Biology/bent&oneill/animations.html
http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/chapters.html - excellent reference for basic topics covered in course
http://www.hoflink.com/%7Ehouse/cellstructure.html - many links organized and listed at this site. While many links are present it will take time to search them to find exactly what you want.
"WEB BOOKS" - interesting site with good animation
EDUCATIONAL BIOLOGY ENCYCLOPEDIA - animations and site links
U OF ALBERTA - biology department, assorted animations
LEW-PORT'S ANIMATIONS - mitosis, meiosis, chromatography, electrophoresis, enzymes, replication, protein synthesis
PURVES ANIMATIONS - complete set of college level animations - Well done WHFreeman!
http://www.hoflink.com/%7Ehouse/cellstructure.html - many links organized and listed at this site. While many links are present it will take time to search them to find exactly what you want.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY NOTEBOOK - nice site for animations on molecular biology
MERLOT -
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HHMI ANIMATIONS:
Sex Determination
Meiosis
Y Chromosome, Evolution of
The T-cell
Drosophila Molecular Model
Mammal Molecular Model
Human SCN Anatomy
Fly Circadian Activity
E. coli Infection Mechanism
Intracellular Infection by Salmonella
Bacterial Conjugation
Viral Infection
Viral Subunit Reassortment
Visible Heart
Anatomy of the Cochlea
Diffusion Across Membranes
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