Biology Links and Videos
Ecology Links
1. Make your own food web
2. Food chains and food webs
3. Food chains, webs, and energy pyramids
4. Energy pyramid (marine ecosystem)
5. Carbon cycle animated tutorial (Carbon cycle questions)
6. Nitrogen cycle
7. Effects of climate change
8. Population Ecology
9. Overview of ecosystem vocabulary
10. Investigate Biodiversity
11. Biodiversity Hotspots
12. Endangered Species (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
13. Environmental Protection Agency
14. World Wildlife Federation
15. Massachusetts Wildlife Fact Sheets
16. Exponential Growth Simulation
17. Logistic Growth Simulation
18. Global Warming and Climate Change Interactive
19. Climate Change Primer (Woods Hole Research Center)
20. Human Population Growth
21. The State of Ecosystems (article questions)
22. Plant Genebanks: Food Security
23. Fisheries Management (NOAA)
24. Ocean Acidification and Marine Biodiversity (National Geographic)
25. Ecology Articles (Nature)
Ecology Videos
1. Biodiversity (Temple University on Youtube)
2. Symbiotic Relationships
3. Habitat, Niche, and Competition
4. Ecological Pyramids
5. The Carbon Cycle
Biochemistry Links
1. Carbohydrate tutorial
2. Lipid tutorial
3. Protein tutorial
4. Macromolecule tutorial (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids)
5. MOLO Protein Folding Tutorial
6. Enzymes: Competitive and Noncompetitive Inhibition
7. Enzyme tutorial #1
8. Enzyme animated tutorial #2
9. Activation Energy and Enzymes
10. Protein Denaturation (Food Science)
11. Monomers, Polymers and Condensation Reactions
12. Hydrolysis Reactions
13. 3-D amino acids
14. Four Levels of Protein Structure (in 3-D)
Biochemistry Videos
1. Four levels of protein structure
2. Secondary structure of proteins
3. Enzymes and Substrates
Cellular Biology Links
1. Interactive tour of the cell (nsf.gov)
2. Cellupedia - interactive tutorial of the cell
3. Eukaryotic cell interactive models
4. Overview of cell organelles (animal cell)
5. Cell Membrane Structure
6. Lysosomes
7. Passive and Active Transport
8. Cell membrane tutorial
9. Cytoskeleton tutorial
10. The cell cycle
11. Stages of mitosis
12. Mitosis and cytokinesis
13. Cancer and the Cell Cycle
14. Cancer Warrior (video - NOVA)
15. Angiogenesis and Metastasis clip
16. Amazing Cells
17. Stem Cells (Nova Science Now video)
18. Different Types of Stem Cells (Genetics Science Learning Center
19. Pluripotent Stem Cells Tutorial (Scientific American)
20. Stem Cells Tutorial (National Institutes of Health) (Extra optional assignment)
21. Online onion root tip mitosis lab
22. Understanding Cancer
Cellular Biology Videos
1. The Cell Membrane (3D view)
2. The Cytoskeleton
3. Passive Transport
4. Endocytosis and Exocytosis
5. Stem Cells
6. The Cell Cycle
7. The Cell Cycle #2
8. How Cancer Develops
9. Angiogenesis
Anatomy and Physiology Links
1. Inner Body
2. Get Body Smart
3. Go to HERE for links on each system
Fetal Pig
1. Fetal pig anatomical pictures (high resolution)
2. Fetal pig anatomical pictures (1st half - labeled)
3. Fetal pig anatomical pictures (2nd half - labeled)
Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis Links
1. Visual of overall reaction
2. Animated tutorial (advanced)
Mendelian Genetics
1. Genetics Science Learning Center
2. Mendelian Genetics (How to do a monohybrid cross (Punnett square)
3. Mendelian genetics vocabulary
4. Mendel's Peas
5. Incomplete Dominance and Codominance
6. Sex-determination and Linkage
7. Meiosis
Molecular Genetics
1. What are genetic disorders?
2. Genes and Disease
3. Build a DNA molecule
4. DNA Replication Tutorial (advanced)
5. DNA Replication Tutorial (basic)
6. Tour of the Basics (Genetics Science Learning Center) - explains DNA, genes, chromosomes, proteins, traits and heredity
7. Transcribe and Translate a Gene (Genetics Science Learning Center)
8. DNA replication and Protein synthesis (interactive)
9. Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic Gene Expression (1st animation)
10. RNAi video (also good review of transcription and translation)
11. Cloning (Genetics Science Learning Center)
12. Gel Electrophoresis Simulation (Genetics Science Learning Center)
13. Epigenetics (Genetics Science Learning Center)
14. Epigenetics (NOVA)
15. Gene Switches (NOVA - click on interactive slideshow)
16. Cancer Genetics (American Cancer Society)
17. NCBI Gene (Genes and Mapped Phenotypes)
18. San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Biology Workbench
19. Your Genes, Your Health
20. Complete overview of molecular genetics (NIGMS)
21. Insertion and Deletion Mutations
Genetics Videos
1. DNA Structure
2. DNA Replication
3. Transcription and Translation
4. Another Transcription and Translation clip
Evolution Links
1. Frequently asked questions on evolution
2. Evolution in Action
3. Natural Selection activity (Biology in Motion)
4. Understanding Evolution
5. Natural Selection of the pocket mouse
6. Molecular Genealogy
7. Speciation
8. Human Evolution and Genetic "Switches"
9. Evolution in Your Life (audio from NOVA)
10. Prehistoric Timeline (National Geographic)
11. Are We Still Evolving? (NOVA article)
12. Use of rRNA in determining evolutionary relationships
Evolution Videos
1. What Darwin Never Knew (NOVA)
2. Little People of Flores
3. Lice and Human Evolution
Articles
1. Science NOW Headlines (Up to the minute news in science)
2. ScienceDaily (Daily headlines in science)
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