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This site provides a list of web links with brief
site descriptions for high school biology students and teachers. Parents may
also find this a useful resource. This site is NOT responsible for the content of
other websites. Sites maintained by outside organizations may be changed
without notice, their continuing safe content or privacy policies cannot be
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last reviewed, these websites seemed suitable for you to visit.
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Biology Sites on the Web
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian: helps answer frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian with links to resources on subjects from Art to Zoology. AN AMAZING SITE TO EXPLORE AND LEARN!
- The Biology Project: an
interactive online resource for all aspects of biology
- NABT:
National Association of Biology Teachers Web Site
Anatomy and Physiology
- The Visible Embryo: "Welcome to the Visible Embryo, a comprehensive resource of information on human development from conception to birth, designed for both medical student and interested lay people. The Visible Embryo offers a detailed pictorial account of normal and abnormal development."
- Cow's Eye Virtual Dissection: part of the "Exploratorium" Science Learning Network.
- A Simple Virtual Dissection of a Frog and a more comprehensive Frog Virtual Dissection
- Heart, Blood and
Circulation: an overview, with excellent graphics, of heart
development and structure, blood flow, blood vessels, and relationships to
the respiratory and excretory systems.
- The Nervous System – “An overview of nerve systems, impulse transmission, neurotransmitters, the brain, and the rest of the nervous system.”
- Neuroscience for Kids – “created for all students and teachers who would like to learn about the nervous system.”
- The Autonomic Nervous System – with links to more detail on the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
- The Visible Human Project: anatomy project from the National Library of Medicine
Biochemistry
- Biochemistry: A section of the University of Arizona’s “Biology Project”
- Biomolecules: Basic chemistry of amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids.
Biology
- Cellupedia: a comprehensive cell biology course on the internet.
- Biology Browser: offers resources for the life sciences information community.
Botany
- Botany: Plants and our environment.
Chemistry Review
- Chemical Basis of Life: a review of chemical principles
- Periodic Table: an excellent interactive "Webelement" browser.
- Molecular
Modeling for Organic Chemistry.
- Yahoo Chemistry
Directory
Disease and Medicines
- National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- The Merck Manual: guide to diseases.
- Genes & Disease: a detailed discussion from the National Library of Medicine on a broad range of disease states and the genetic basis for the diseases (including chromosome maps).
Ecology and Environment
- Earth Sciences
- Windows to the Universe: an earth and space sciences learning system developed by NASA.
- Savage Planet: companion site to the PBS series examining planet Earth's volcanoes, storms, atmospheric conditions, and extreme environments.
- Marine Sciences
- Great Lakes: the US EPA Great Lakes Ecological Protection and Restoration
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Educational Resources: teachers, students, and the general public can find information about weather, Earth and sun, the ocean, coasts, satellites, fish, protected marine mammals, and climate change.
- Virtual tour of a mangrove forest: visit Mangal Cay in Belize and discover the interplay of environmental factors. Take the virtual tour from the Smithonian Institute and don't hesitate to dive in the water and explore!
- Environment
Genetics
- DNA from the beginning.: a guide to DNA, genes, and genetic function.
- Molecular Biology – a beginner’s guide.
- Genome Programs of the US Department of Energy Office of Science: Complete information about the human genome project (with many valuable links).
- 123Genomics – a genomics, proteomics, & bioinformatics knowledge base.
- MendelWeb: constructed around Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper, "Experiments in Plant Hybridization", this is an excellent resource on the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science.
- Bioinformatics – a comprehensive educational resource on bioinformatics.
Microbiology
- Introduction to Fungi
- Molecular Virology: a discussion on the nature of viruses, the origin of viruses, viral structure, and genome diversity. The site also gives links to several good essays on viruses.
- Prions: short for proteinaceous infectious particle – an article from “Wikipedia”
Web Sites for Science and Biology
- Dictionary of Cell Biology: The online version of the Academic Press (2nd Edition, 1995) dictionary of terms, expressions and definitions in the modern biology literature.
- Exploratorium Science Learning Network: "The Learning Studio"......a site.
- Martindale's "The Reference Desk": a very large, comprehensive reference source. Be sure and check
- The "Virtual" Medical Center: a virtual medical school with a LARGE number of topics
- K-12 Science Education, Frank Potter's Science Gems: A GREAT place to explore, particularly in the life sciences area
- Molecular Biology: computational molecular biology at the National Institutes of Health - an advanced site with research links to molecular modeling and molecular graphics
- Biosciences Index: Harvard University – Molecular & Cell Biology Links
- Access Excellence: a national educational program for high school biology teachers
- Science Index : Yahoo Science Index
Zoology
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Guide to the Animal Kingdom: “a
simplified (and somewhat abbreviated) classification scheme for the whole
animal kingdom. It represents a fairly traditional view of animal
phylogeny”.
Searches
- Try search engines such as GOOGLE or YAHOO for different science topics
- The New York Times Internet Guide, Cyber Times Navigator
Last Modified January 8, 2007