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

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UT Course Transformation Bio 311C

Biofundamentals (U Colorado)

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

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

ecology-action.org (Austin)

 

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