Sunday 10 July 2011

Biology Websites

  1. http://www.hhmi.org/lectures/ The Howard Hughes Medical Institute lectures are outstanding talks given in the summer vacation each year by leading authorities in a discipline of biology to inspire high school students to take up a career in science.
  2. http://www.medicines-inside.com/ Find out how medicines we take for granted work.
  3. http://www.hhmi.org/senses/ We touch, taste and smell our world would not be the same without these senses. How do they work?
  4. http://www.phys.ksu.edu:80/gene/ The Gene homepage says the network is "dedicated to rescuing teachers and other students from terminal boredom by helping them do real science with modern research organisms."
  5. http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/ A multimedia primer on the basics of genetics and heredity.
  6. http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/cell/ This web site contains a virtual interactive cell. Biology teachers and students will enjoy cutting and zooming in on the different layers and organelles of the cell.
  7. http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/outrea/greenhouse/nursery/biology/home.html This site has a great three-dimensional representation of a cell! Students get to see an inside view of common organelles like mitochondria and the Golgi apparatus.
  8. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ehceduc.html http://www.dana.org/brainweek/education.cfm Websites that provide a broad approach to basic questions on the brain.

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