WWW
RESOURCES FOR BIO 311D
(index of links)
LOTS OF LINKS
ANIMATIONS
GENETICS
EVOLUTION
DIVERSITY
STRUCTURE & FUNCTION (PLANT/ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY)
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
NEWS, UPDATES, ISSUES
AUSTIN AND UT SITES
[Return to Bio 311D home page]
UT Course Transformation Bio 311C
LOTS OF LINKS
Many Useful Biology Links (North Harris College) http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/bio1.html
BioZone
(huge variety of valuable links, many topics; some are commercial sites) http://www.biozone.co.uk/links.html
ANIMATIONS
HHMI educational site: go to Animations (topics: DNA, neuroscience, infectious disease, etc.) http://hhmi.org/biointeractive/
DNA replication animation (Losick, Harvard)
good quality animation of events at the DNA replicaiton fork
Molecular
Animations http://www.stolaf.edu/people/giannini/biological%20anamations.html
[mostly molecular and cell animations]
ATP hydrolysis http://faculty.ccbcmd.edu/biotutorials/energy/adpan.html
ATP hydrolysis with water ATP hydrolysis showing water
Lew Port's
animations – See Mitosis and Meiosis
http://www.lpscience.fatcow.com/jwanamaker/animations.htm
Cell Death
animations Cell Death: Necrosis vs. Apoptosis http://www.whfreeman.com/kuby/content/anm/kb04an01.htm
Membrane
Transport Animations Good, Interactive animation of Cellular Transport
from Wiley, Inc.(Rodney Boyer) http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/membrane_transport/membrane_transport.htm
Osmosis
animation http://www.stolaf.edu/people/giannini/flashanimat/transport/osmosis.swf
Cellular slime mold
movies Cellular slime mold aggregation
Student-developed
Animations from
University of Alberta http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/facilities/multimedia/index.php?Page=252
RECOMMENDED:
Harvard's animation: "Inner Life of a cell" (3-4 minutes) narrated version
RECOMMENDED: Harvard's animation: "Inner Life of a cell" (3-4 minutes) music, no narration
GENETICS
Online Mendelian
Inheritance in Man Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM
Genes and Disease NIH Genes and Disease Site (great reference)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=gnd.TOC&depth=1
Genetics Home Reference (NIH) http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
(genes and disorders A-Z)
DNA from the beginning http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/
(includes classical genetics)
The Human Genome (Wellcome Trust site) Human Genetics, Human Evolution. http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk
Learn Genetics (University of Utah) http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
stem
cell references http://www.bio.utexas.edu/faculty/buskirk/bio311D/stemcell.html
[I’ve collected some stem cell info sites here including NIH and one opposing
sc research]
Human
Genetics Traits for teachers (CIESE) http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/genproj/traits.html
Meiosis (Sumanas) http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/majorsbiology/meiosis.html
Cat Color Genetics (Cat
Slide Show) [originally compiled by Dr. Nan Hampton, UT Bio 325L]
http://www.richmond.edu/~lrunyenj/cat.html
hemophilia http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=hemophilia
hemophilia
inheritance problem The Biology Project
X chromosome information (NIH)
EVOLUTION
Evolution 101 Berkeley http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/index.shtml
Museum of Paleontology UC Berkeley http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
David Attenborough video Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
Plate Tectonics Animations
Berkeley Plate
Tectonics Berkeley http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html
Exploring Earth: Visualizations (earth models, climate, rock, water, planets)
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/visualization.cfm
Interactive
simulation of genetic drift (U Conn) http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/simulations/jdk1.0/drift.html
Interactive
simulation of selection (U Conn) http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/simulations/jdk1.0/selection.html
Peppered Moth
evolution update (Ken Miller, Brown U) http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/Moths/moths.html
Speciation
animations http://www.nodvin.net/snhu/SCI219/demos/Chapter_4/index.html
Hardy-Weinberg http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/H/Hardy_Weinberg.html
Speciation, Darwin's Finches http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/S/Speciation.html
Science team
finds "lost world" BBC News Feb 7, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4688000.stm
List
of Phylogeny Programs for research http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.html
Evolution rhetoric Evolution: Fact, Theory, & Rhetoric http://www.athro.com/evo/evframe.html
Becoming
Human (Inst of Human Origins, Arizona St U) http://www.becominghuman.org/
Talk.Origins [creation/evolution] http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/other-links.html
Diversity of habitats
for guppies in Trinidad Link
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/sex/guppy/habitat.html
Origin of Species Gallery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/origin/index.html
Access Excellence Graphics
Resource Center http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/
[Graphics Gallery, mainly cell and genetics]
DIVERSITY
Tree of Life
(temporarily not available) web site U Arizona http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
Bacteria
Berkeley http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/bacteria.html
Bacteriology Online Todar’s
Online Textbook of Bacteriology (detailed) http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/
Protist Images
http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/protists.html
Protist, with
movies http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio106/protista.htm
Algae (Conn.
College) http://silicasecchidisk.conncoll.edu/Movies_Frameset.html
"Bad Bugs Book" (temporarily not available) US Food
& Drug Administration http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html
Animal Diversity
Web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
(University of Michigan Museum of Zoology) browse Kingdom Animalia
Bat
Conservation International http://www.batcon.org/
STRUCTURE & FUNCTION (plant
and animal physiology)
The Virtual
Embryo http://people.ucalgary.ca/~browder/virtualembryo/
Animation Sea Urchin
Development http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/urchin.html
Hormone control of thyroid gland http://biologyinmotion.com/thyroid/
Peptide Hormone Action (TAMU) animation of peptide and G-protein action
Immune Cell Function
(excellent animations) http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/inflam.html
Animation of membrane action potential (McGraw-Hill)
Mouse Party (U Utah)
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/mouse.html
U. Utah entertaining, interactive site on drug mechanisms
Muscle contraction animations
signal
at neuromuscular junction http://www.howstuffworks.com/muscle3.htm
muscle contraction, actin
myosin http://www.howstuffworks.com/muscle2.htm
Nutrition
Sites Internet Sites on Nutrition and Food Science (UT Austin NUT 311
course)
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/ntr311/nutinfo/internet.html
Food Safety & Nutrition US FDA Center
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety
Nutrition Data Site (searchable,
fast foods) http://www.nutritiondata.com/
Flavors & Perfumes Flavors &
Perfumes (Leffingwell & Associates) http://www.leffingwell.com/
American Diabetes Association
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics
The eSkeleton Site (UT's John
Kappelman!) http://www.eskeletons.org/
Green Seedling http://www.greenseedling.com/
interesting facts, plants in the news
Plant Biology http://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/BSCI124/main.html
a great archive of lecture notes from U. Maryland Plant Biology course for non-majors
Virtual foliage http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/
U. Wisconsin, photos of plant, fungi, protist diversity
Stomata Images St. John’s University
http://employees.csbsju.edu/SSAUPE/biol327/Lab/stomata/stomata-images.htm
Mycorrhizal Fungi http://www.blm.gov/nstc/soil/fungi/
Plant info and photos http://plants.usda.gov/
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Plant Physiology Online (Taiz & Zeiger text, Sinauer; research essays)
http://4e.plantphys.net/index.php/
Translocation
of Food in Phloem http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Phloem.html
Plants in Motion (time-lapse movies of phototropisms, etc)
http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/starthere.html
ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
EnviroLink (environment, endangered
species, ethics, policy, links to science references) http://www.envirolink.org/
World Population Site
http://www.siue.edu/~rblain/worldpop.htm
World Population
ClockWorld Population Clock (current estimate) http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html
Ecology, Teaching Issues and Experiments http://tiee.ecoed.net/vol/v1/figure_sets/species/species_figs.html
CDC site with data on US population and diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
UN Data in reports by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
IIASA home site http://www.iiasa.ac.at
Calculate your Ecological Footprint
http://www.myfootprint.org/ or Best Food Forward
Global Footprint Network
Advancing the Science of Sustainability http://www.footprintnetwork.org/index.php
ecology-action.org (Austin)
Environmental Pollution Scorecard http://www.scorecard.org/
Ecosystem Services Project
Australian projects and case studies
Extinction Vortex positive feedback extinction vortex (Prairie Chicken)
Population
growth curves (interactive)
http://www.kimvdlinde.com/professional/biology/popdyn/popdyn_en.html
BioZone
Population Genetics interactive simulations (see Genetic Drift)
http://www.biozone.co.uk/biolinks/GENETICS.html#Population_Genetics
Feral
Rabbit Control Myxomatosis and Rabbits in Australia (a Thinkquest
Problem)
Secret
Worlds (Powers of 10) (series of pictures from universe to subatomic particles,
each by power 10) http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
Monterey Bay Aquarium (virtual exhibits, but requires plug-ins)
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/
NEWS, UPDATES, ISSUES
What's News Access
Excellence http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SU/index.html
Search NIH PubMed for research papers Enter search terms
Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal
Testing http://caat.jhsph.edu/
Foundation for Biomedical Research Ethics
http://www.fbresearch.org/
New York Times, Science Times (student access)
AUSTIN AND UT SITES
UT's Field Station Brackenridge
Field Laboratory http://www.utexas.edu/research/bfl/
Texas Memorial Museum (Texas Natural
Science Center) http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/
Barton Springs
Pool (including research) http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/bartonsprings.htm
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
(now affiliated with UT) http://www.wildflower.org/
Undergraduate
Research Opportunities
Information, EUREKA! Search
UTeach Program Combine bachelor's
degree in science with teaching certification
[Return to Bio 311D home page]