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WWW Resource Supplements for College Introductory Biology


GENERAL

MIT Biology Hypertextbook

The Biology Project, an interactive online resource for learning biology, from the University of Arizona

a href="http://tidepool.st.usm.edu/crswr/courseware.html">Introductory Biology Courseware, a wealth of lecture notes/illustrations by Gary Anderson, Department of Biology, University of Southern Mississippi

World Lecture Hall, Biology and Botony, links from the University of Texas


DIVERSITY AND SYSTEMATICS

Tree of Life, "a distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity", rooted at the University of Arizona

Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server, from Cornell University

Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology, including Microbe of the Week and Microbe Zoo


PALEONTOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

American Museum of Natural History

Life Over Time, an exhibit from the Field Museum, Chicago

Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley, with info and links on systematics and cladistics, on taxonomy and diversity, and on geologic time


BIOCHEMISTRY and MOLECULAR GENETICS

General, Organic, and Biochemistry - lecture slides, animations, periodic table, from James Hardy, University of Akron, and West Publishing Company

Medical Biochemistry, from Medical Education Group, University of Kansas Medical Center

Primer on Molecular Genetics, from the Department of Energy, Human Genone Management Information System

Recombinant DNA review, from MIT Biology Hypertextbook, by Vernon Ingram

Introduction to Gene Therapy, an on-line course from the Clinical Research Center, Vanderbilt University

Entrez Molecular biology search tool, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information


CELL BIOLOGY and HISTOLOGY

Cells Alive! Some wonderful pictures, from Quill Graphics.

Virtual Cell, to explore, from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Cell Biology, beautifully illustrated lectures on a number of cell biology topics from a graduate course at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Medical Histology Atlas, from the University of Wisconsin Medical School


GENETICS

MendelWeb, Mendel, history of science, plus

Virtual FlyLab, interactive genetics from California State University, Los Angeles

Genetics databases teaching exercise, from Weizmann Institute, Genome and Bioinformatics


DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Welcome to Developmental Biology, course notes with links from Leon Browder, University of Calgary

The Virtual Embryo, continuously developing (as it should be) resource provider, also from Leon Browder

Developmental Biology, with movies, from Bill Wasserman, Loyola University

FishScope, fish development, with movies, from the University of Washington

Amphibian development, from the University of Wisconsin

Human embryo development, from University of Pennsylvania

The Interactive Fly, Drosophila genetics/development, from the Society for Developmental biology


ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY

The Interactive Frog Dissection

Virtual Frog Dssection Kit

The Heart: An OnLine Exploration, from the Franklin Institute

Global AnatomyOn-line resources from Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin - currently includes several sections on neuroanatomy as well as a medical histology atlas

The Whole Brain Atlas, from Harvard Medical School

Neuroscience Tutorial Functional neuroanatomy, from Washington University School of Medicine


ECOLOGY, POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY

Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory - "Earth's biggest environment search engine"

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, a nice course outline with links, by David Bogler, University of Texas


EVOLUTION: THE PAST AND THE FUTURE

The Origin of Animal Body Plans, an article by Erwin, Valentine, and Jabblonski, from the American Scientist

Origins of Humankind, "a comprehensive resource site ..."

Human Prehistory: An Exhibition, wonderful pictures, assembled by D.I. Loizos, Professor of History, American College of Greece


RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS

BioQuest Curriculum Consortium, centered at Beloit College

CELS, Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences

Access Excellence, "a pace in cyberspace for biology teaching and learning", supported by Genentech

Bio 1 Virtual Lab, from Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C.


Assembled by Paul Grobstein, with help from lots of friends (see Peter Brodfuehrer's home page, with course links).
Please suggest additions.