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Quick Reference
Biology
BioTech's Life Science Dictionary
Designed as "a hybrid biology/chemistry educational resource and research
tool on the World Wide Web," BioTech is a project of the Dr. Andrew Ellington
Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.
Biology Project
Developed at The University of Arizona for biology students at the
college and high school level, it includes problem sets, tutorials, and
activities on biochemistry, cell biology, chemicals and human health, developmental
biology, human biology, immunology, Mendelian genetics, and molecular biology.
Biozone
This New Zealand biology textbook publisher has compiled biology links in
such categories as animal, cell, plant, and space biology, human evolution,
biodiversity, conservation, ecology, and genetics.
DNA Learning Center
"The Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC) is the world's first science center
devoted entirely to public genetics education and is an operating unit of
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...The DNALC extends the Laboratory's traditional
research and postgraduate education mission to the college, pre-college, and public levels."
Human Genome Project Information
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's Human Genome Project site
contains a genomics primer, image gallery, ethical, legal, and social issues, and more.
Infomine: Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Sciences
Infomine is a "librarian-built virtual library of Internet resources relevant
to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level." This
segment of the site concentrates on genetics, biochemistry, biology, whole organism research and ecology.
Microbes.info: the Microbiology Information Portal
Microbes.info is a Web site designed to bring useful and interesting microbiology informational resources to you.
Netfrog
A Frog dissection tutorial originally designed in 1994 for high school biology
classrooms, the site was updated and upgraded in 2002. Created by the Curry
School of Education, University of Virginia.
Plants Database (National
Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Dept. Agriculture)
ThePlants Database provides standardized information about the
vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the
U.S. and its territories.
