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Exploratorium: Traits of Life

Designed to complement the redesigned Traits of Life exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, this fine site allows visitors to view a photo gallery of the new exhibit, investigate some provocative online exhibits, and explore a host of links that are germane to the nature of biology. The exhibits constitute the core of the material available at the site, and are divided into four thematic...

https://annex.exploratorium.edu/traits/index.html
Idaho State University: Biology Resources for Active Learning

The Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University offers this website as part of a project "to enhance teacher preparation in the sciences by emphasizing inquiry and experimental approaches to science teaching." The site offers one or two lesson plans (mostly at the high school level) for the following subjects: the cell; molecular basis of heredity; biological evolution;...

http://coursecat.isu.edu/graduate/scienceengineering/biologi...
Kimball's Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages (first reviewed in the May 9, 1997 Scout Report) is an online biology textbook created and maintained by Dr. John W. Kimball, a veteran biology educator and retired Harvard professor. Dr. Kimball believes that the hypertext format is especially well suited for biological study because its nodal structure better approximates the relationships between biological subjects than...

https://www.biology-pages.info/
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: The Whole Frog Project

This Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory project demonstrates how computers "can teach some things better, either by themselves or through synergy with conventional methods." The Whole Frog Project uses 3D digital imaging to provide high school biology classes with the opportunity to explore the anatomy of a frog. The virtual frog dissection kit, a Web-based interactive program, uses "data from...

https://froggy.lbl.gov/
Mount Sinai Hospital: Blueprint

Led by Dr. Christopher Hogue of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital the Blueprint Initiative "develops, hosts and maintains public biological databases and Bioinformatics software tools such as BIND, SeqHound and Distributed Folding." The Blueprint research program also has a sister node located at the National University of Singapore. In addition to providing access to...

http://www.blueprint.org/
National Association of Biology Teachers

A useful resource for a broad spectrum of life science teachers, the 9,000-member National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) is committed to empowering "educators to provide the best possible biology and life science education for all students." The extensive NABT website contains sections for membership, news and events, conferences and workshops, publications, and various educational...

https://nabt.org/
Okhotskia: International Sakhalin Island Project

This website presents the International Sakhalin Island Project (ISIP), "an international collaboration of American, Russian, and Japanese scientists to survey the plants, lichens, mosses, liverworts, fungi, insects, spiders, freshwater and terrestrial mollusks, freshwater fishes, amphibians, and reptiles of Sakhalin Island." The website was developed primarily "to provide easy access to project...

https://www.burkemuseum.org/static/okhotskia/isip/
Palomar College: Wayne's Word-Biology 101 Lecture Topics

This website was developed by Professor Wayne P. Armstrong as part of his online Biology 101 course at Palomar College in San Marcos, Calif. This site is also part of Professor Armstrong's larger website: Wayne's Word: An Online Natural History Textbook. The Biology 101 Lecture Topics site organizes lectures into five major categories: The Kingdoms of Life; Biochemistry and Cell Structure &...

https://www.waynesword.net/bio101.htm
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Pew Research Center: U.S. Public Wary of Biomedical Technologies to 'Enhance' Human Abilities

The Pew Research Center recently released a study indicating that as a whole, Americans are more "worried" than "enthusiastic" about three emerging biomedical technologies. For the study, researchers surveyed over 4,000 U.S. citizens about three potential human enhancements: gene editing in babies to reduce the risk of serious disease; the implementations of brian chips to improve cognitive...

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2016/07/26/u-s-public-wa...
Plant Physiology Information Website

This extensive Plant Physiology Information Website was created by Ross E. Koning, professor of biology at Eastern Connecticut State University. Dr. Koning provides links to lecture notes, lab exercises, and other resources for a variety of his courses including Biology of Plants, Plant Physiology, Principles of Biology, and more. In addition, the site offers a diverse assortment of other...

http://plantphys.info/
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