"Hot" Biology Web Sites

General Biology Education Sites

• Access Excellence
  Biotechnology educational programs.
• The Animal Diversity Web
  A taxonomically-arranged site of animal diversity from the University of Michigan.
• Beyond Bio101
  The transformation of undergraduate biology education from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• BioEd
  Biological sciences education resources.
• BioInteractive
  Virtual labs, animations, virtual museum, web video, and "click and learn" mini lessons from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• Biolab
  Home page for Biolab: the discussion group for college biology laboratory teaching.
• Biology Hypertextbook
  An online general biology textbook.
• The Biology Lab Clearinghouse
  A repository of free hands-on laboratory instruction. New material is welcomed.
• The Biology Place
  Resources for general biology instructors.
• The Biology Project
  From the University of Arizona. This site has tutorials and activities in may areas of Biology including Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Toxicology.
• BioMedia Associates: Learning Programs for Biology
  The Web site of this commercial venture contains dramatic photographs and animations, and offers a collection of downloadable teaching resources, and an online catalog of BioMedia's instructional videos and CD-ROMs.
• BioMedNet
  The World Wide Web Club for the Biological and Medical Community.
• Biosci
  Access to Biosci usenet groups, archives, and more!
• BioTech
  An interactive educational resource and biotechnology reference tool.
• Cells Alive!
  Information and images about cells from all walks of life.
• Cell and Molecular Biology Online
  General resources for the biology community with an emphasis on information for cell and molecular biologists.
• Darwin 2000
  Interactive Web Site for Student Research into the Evolution of Genes and Proteins. From Rick Hershberger's Workshop at ABLE 21.
• The Dictionary of Cell Biology
  An electronic version of Academic Press' 2nd edition of The Dictionary of Cell Biology.
• Genetic Science Learning Center
  A large site with information, tutorials, and some great activities from the University of Utah.
• MicrobeLibrary
  Contains images (still, animations, videos) of microbes, curriculum materials for the classroom and lab, educational reviews of books, websites, software and videos, an education newsletter and an annual journal.
• Mr. Biology's High School Bio Website
  A large site with much useful information.
• NISE/CL1 Website
  Collaborative learning and learning assessment resources from the National Institute for Science Education.
• Medline
  Online searching of the Medline journal article database.
• On-line Mendelian Inheritance in Man
  Access to this extensive database of human inheritance.
• Tom Volk's Fungi Site
  A very extensive site with much information about fungi.
• The Tree of Life
  The Tree of Life is a collection of World Wide Web pages which combined present information about the world's organisms.
• Virtual Cell
  An on-line tour of a plant cell. Zoom in, search for organelles, and view EM images.
• Virtual Courses
  Virtual courses available through the Internet.
• The Visible Human Project
  The National Library of Medicine's page on this project. Links are provided to several sites which allow you to navitage through the visible humans.
• Webcutter
  An on-line tool for restriction mapping nucleotide sequences. You can provide the sequence or Web Cutter will find one for you.

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Comprehensive Links Pages

• BioChemNet
  A directory of biology and chemistry education resources.
• Biology Information Services
  A registry of biological Web sites and gopher servers.
• Biology Virtual Library
  Connections to Web sites covering all aspects of biology.
• Bioscience
  This site has a journal, a virtual library, and lots of other goodies helpful to both teachers and researchers.
• CSU BioWeb
  Extensive topical list of Internet biological sciences resources.
• InfoMINE
  A very extensive site for accessing a tremendous number of web sites and electronic journals in many academic areas.
• Scott's Botanical Links
  A huge site, listed as botanical links, but with a whole lot more.

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Biological Animations

Many of the sites in this list require that specific plug-ins be installed before the animations can be viewed. Most sites have a link from which you can obtain the necessary plug-in.

• Biology Multimedia Demonstration Files
  This site has six animated tutorials describing mitochondrial function, chloroplasts, meiosis, replication, and other topics.
• BioInteractive
  An excellent collection of biology-oriented animations from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• DNA Learning Center
  This site from Cold Spring Harbor Labs has animated tutorials of PCR, DNA Fingerprinting, and so on.
• Interactive Animations for Immunology
  Animations of antibody diversity and MHC-peptide binding.
• Molecular Models for Biochemistry
  An extensive site containing tutorials on glycolysis, the TCA cycle and a variety of biological molecules.
• Science Odessey: DNA Workshop
  This site has simple, interactive animations of DNA Replication and Protein Synthesis.
  

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Biology Lab Manuals

• Arabidopsis Project lab manual.
• Cell Biology
  A cell biology laboratory manual composed of an assortment of techniques.
• Customized Laboratory Manuals
  Create your own custom laboratory manuals, from Wadsworth Publishing.
• Experimental Protocols
  Comprehensive list of molecular biological protocols/techniques available through the Internet.
• GENE
  Genetics Education Network.
• HHMI Virtual Lab
  A virtual neurophysiology lab from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• Research Link 2000
  Development of research-based labs for the undergraduate curriculum; sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research.

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Scientific Organizations

• AAAS
  American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• ACUBE
  Association of College and University Biology Educators
• AIBS
  American Institute of Biological Sciences.
• ASM
  American Society for Microbiology.
• ASP
  American Society of Parasitologists
• CELS
  Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences.
• CUR
  The Council on Undergraduate Research.
• ESA
  Ecological Society of America
• HHMI
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute (also see the HHMI Holiday Lectures on Science Program)
• NABT
  National Association of Biology Teachers.
• SSR
  Society for the Study of Reproduction.

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Online Journals

• American Scientist
  American Scientist, a journal from the Sigma Xi Research organization.
• HMS Beagle
  Official scientific webzine for BioMedNet, carrying daily news stories from top journals around the world.
• JAMA
  Journal of the American Medical Association.
• inScight
  On-line information service devoted specifically to late-breaking science news.
• New Scientist
  On-line version of this weekly news magazine.
• Science
  Science magazine online with additional features beyond the printed version.
• Science News
  Science News: the weekly newsmagazine of science.
• Scientific American
  Access to some of the current edition and most of the previous editions.
• The Scientist
  The newspaper for the life sciences professional.

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Digital Images

• Biodidac
• Botanical Society of America image collection
• University of Wisconsin image collection
• Hyperlinked Human Histology (for Immunology Courses)

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