Biology Links
General Biology Links
Biology Specialty Links
General Biology
Links
Government
- National Science Foundation
NSF's mission: To promote the progress of science; to advance
the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the
national defense.
- US Peace Corps
When President John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address
35 years ago, he issued a call to service to Americans with the
words, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can
do for your country." He manifested this vision by creating the
Peace Corps, formed to promote world peace, mutual understanding
and to offer trained men and women to countries in need.
Science Centers and Museums
- Franklin Institute Virtual
Science Museum
We bring the exhibits, resources, and fun of a museum visit
right to your desktop. Begin your visit by touring our online
exhibits. Our educational hotlists point to educational hotspots
on the Internet.
- Hands-on Science
Centers Worldwide
This page contains pointers to public museums with a strong
emphasis on interactive science education.
Catalogs of Biology
- The World Lecture Hall
The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty
worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you
will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars,
multimedia textbooks, etc.
- Yahoo: Sciences
Biology Education
- BioChemNet
The BioChemNet is a directory of excellent biology and chemistry educational
resources online.
- CSUN Biology
Education
(Includes links to biology education sites.)
- The Natural History of Genes
The Natural History of Genes provides teachers with a genetic science activities
and hands-on experiments that bring disease genetics, conservation genetics,
forensics and DNA into the real world for students.
Biology Specialty
Links
Agriculture
- Agricultural
Schools
(A listing of many schools or departments of agriculture.)
- Breeds of Livestock
Welcome to the Breeds of Livestock resource presented by the Department of
Animal Science at Oklahoma State University. This site is intended as an educational
and informational resource on breeds of livestock throughout the world.
- The Maize Page
Maize resources for students, producers and specialists
Cell & Molecular Biology
- Electron Micrograph
Library
(Many jpg of macromolecules)
- Image Library of Biological
Macromolecules
The Image Library of Biological Macromolecules was established to provide
easy access to graphical structural information on biological macromolecules
for scientists and others. Currently, the library contains all RNA structures
from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and from the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB)
and a few DNA structures and proteins.
- Pedro's
BioMolecular Research Tools
A Collection of WWW Links to Information and Services Useful to Molecular
Biologists
- The Protein Data Bank
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is an archive of experimentally determined three-dimensional
structures of biological macromolecules, serving a global community of researchers,
educators, and students.
Ecology & Environment
- 1994 IUCN
Red List of Threatened Animals
(Conduct an individual search for a threatened animal.)
- Ecology WWW
page
As a service to students, teachers, researchers, and WWW surfers interested
in ecology, this list was compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Missouri Botanical
Garden & Harvard University Herbaria, U.S.A.).
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- US Fish and Wildlife Service
Through many diverse activities, including habitat protection, waterfowl management,
and endangered species recovery, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service strives
to conserve this nation's fish and wildlife resources and ensure their continued
existence for future generations of Americans.
Entomology
- B-EYE: The world
through the eyes of a bee
Welcome to the B-EYE pages! Have you ever wondered how other creatures see
the world? Here you can find out. Well, at least you can find out how HONEY
BEES see the world. Well, let's say you can find out what we THINK the world
looks like to a bee. Well, not the WHOLE world, really, but a subset of the
world, namely a number of greyscale pictures.
- Wonderful World of Insects
There are well over 1 000 000 different known species of insects in the
world, and some experts estimate that there might be as many as 10 000 000.
Evolution
- The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is a project designed to contain information about the
phylogenetic relationships of organisms, to link biological information available
on the Internet in the form of a phylogenetic navigator, and to illustrate
the diversity and unity of living organisms.
Genetics
- Caenorhabitis elegans WWW Server
(University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)
Caenorhabditis elegans is a small (about 1 mm long) soil nematode found in
temperate regions. In the 1960's Sydney Brenner began using it to study the
genetics of development and neurobiology. Since then the community of C elegans
researchers has expanded to roughly a thousand.
- FlyView
FlyView is the beginning of an image database on Drosophila development and
genetics, especially on expression patterns of genes (enhancer trap lines,
cloned genes).
- MendelWeb
MendelWeb is an educational resource for teachers and students interested
in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary
plant science, and the history and literature of science..
Human Biology
- Centers for Disease Control
CDC Mission: To promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling
disease, injury, and disability.
- US Food and Drug Administration
Your Electronic Source of Information about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- The Heart: An Online Exploration
Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure.
Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body
systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's
health.
- Human Genome
Program
The U.S. project is part of a larger international effort to characterize
the genomes of humans and several model organisms.
- National Institutes of Health
The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health
for everyone. NIH works toward that mission by: conducting research in its
own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities,
medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country
and abroad; helping in the training of research investigators; and fostering
communication of biomedical information.
- The
Visible Human Project
The Visible Human Project is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range
Plan. It is creating a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional
representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the
project is collecting transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of representative
male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals.
- The Whole Brain Atlas
(Includes information on the normal brain and also on cerebrovascular,
neoplastic, degenerative, and inflammatory or infectious diseases.)
- Yahoo: Health
Microbiology
- All the Virology
Servers on the WWW
All the Virology on the WWW seeks to be one of the best single sites for
Virology information on the internet. To this end, we have collected all the
Virology related Web sites that might be of interest to our fellow virologists,
and others interested in learning more about viruses.
- Protist
Image Data
Protist Image Data (PID) provides pictures and short descriptions of selected
protist genera,
especially those genera whose species are frequently used as experimental
organisms or are
important in studies of organismal evolution.
- Virus databases on-line
(Includes information on classification and nomenclature of viruses, virus
descriptions, and viruses of plants in Australia. Also many links.)
Oceanography & Marine Biology
- Marine Fish Catalog
This catalog has over 200 pictures, but I'm still building it.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
NOAA is an agency of the Department of Commerce that was formed in 1970.
NOAA's mission includes two equally important components: 1.Promoting global
environmental stewardship in order to conserve and wisely manage the Nation`s
marine and coastal resources. 2.Describing, monitoring, and predicting changes
in the Earth's environment in order to ensure and enhance sustainable economic
opportunities.
Plant Science
- Australian National Botanic
Gardens Web Server
(Includes links to the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research,
the Australian National Botanic Gardens, and many other Australian
biological websites.)
- Missouri Botanical
Garden Web Server
(Includes information about research and education.)
- National Wildflower
Research Center
The National Wildflower Research Center is the only national
non-profit organization committed to the preservation and
reestablishment of native wildflowers, grasses, trees,shrubs, and
vines in planned landscapes. The Wildflower Center maintains one
of the largest collections of information available to its more
than 20,000 members across North America and interested landscape
professionals and gardeners around the world.
- NMNH
Botany Page
(The Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution. Includes many links.)
- Plant Publishing Web
Plants Publishing Inc. is an editor whose mission is to
diffuse informations and educate people on the benefits of
medicinal plants.
Veterinary Science
- Dog Genome Project
The Dog Genome Project is a collaborative study involving scientists at
the University of California, the University of Oregon, and the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center. It is aimed at producing a map of all the chromosomes
in dogs. Such a map can be used to locate the genes causing disease and those
controlling morphology and behavior.
- NetVet Veterinary Resources
All during 1995, several kind people and groups took notice of the web versions
of NetVet and the Electronic Zoo....it's all really the same system with similar
goals in mind....to categorize and organize veterinary medical and animal-related
information on the Internet in a relevant, easy to use (I hope) format for
people interested in these topics.
- ProVet
(Includes veterinary information and products.)
- Veterinary Science Related
Information
(Includes links to journals, organizations, and colleges of verterinary
medicine.)
Zoology
- The Electronic Zoo
All during 1995, several kind people and groups took notice of the web
versions of NetVet and the Electronic Zoo....it's all really the same system
with similar goals in mind....to categorize and organize veterinary medical
and animal-related information on the Internet in a relevant, easy to use
(I hope) format for people interested in these topics.
- The Interactive
Frog Dissection
The purpose of this lab activity is to help you learn the anatomy of a frog
and give you a better understanding of the anatomy of vertebrate animals in
general, including humans.
- Whole
Frog Project
The goal of the Whole Frog Project is to provide high school biology classes
the ability to explore the anatomy of a frog by using data from high resolution
MRI imaging and from mechanical sectioning, together with 3D surface and volume
rendering software to visualize the anatomical structures of the intact animal.