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This page was last updated on July 6, 2010

General Biology Education Sites

  • Access Excellence
    Biotechnology educational programs.
  • ActionBioScience.org
    Promotes bioscience literacy by providing articles on issues related to environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers, and bioscience education; includes lessons for classroom use.
  • Animal Behaviour Society (education section)
    Links to laboratory exercises, teaching and learning resources, images, etc.
  • The Animal Diversity Web
    A taxonomically-arranged site of animal diversity from the University of Michigan.
  • Bean Beetles
    This site provides information to faculty and staff on using bean beetles (seed beetles), Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), in undergraduate laboratory courses.
  • Beyond Bio101
    The transformation of undergraduate biology education from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
  • BioEDUCATE
    The American Society for Cell Biology Education Resources including seminars, videos, images, concept questions, and more.
  • Bioinformatics Web
    "A comprehensive educational resource on bioinformatics."
  • BioInteractive
    Virtual labs, animations, virtual museum, web video, and "click and learn" mini lessons from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
  • Bioliteracy.net
    Generates, tests, and distributes the tools required to determine whether students are learning what teachers think they are teaching
  • The Biology Lab Clearinghouse
    A repository of free hands-on laboratory instruction. New material is welcomed.
  • The Biology Project
    From the University of Arizona. This site has tutorials and activities in may areas of Biology including Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Toxicology.
  • BioMedia Associates: Learning Programs for Biology
    The Web site of this commercial venture contains dramatic photographs and animations, and offers a collection of downloadable teaching resources, and an online catalog of BioMedia's instructional videos and CD-ROMs.
  • BioMedSearch
    A search engine contains all PubMed/MedLine publications, plus additional journals and a collection of theses and dissertations that are not available eslewhere for free.
  • Biosci
    Access to Biosci usenet groups, archives, and more!
  • BiosciEdNet (BEN)
    The BEN portal provides access to resources from BEN partner organizations; "resources cover 46 biological sciences topics and include 25 different types of resources ranging from journal articles to simulations."
  • Connecting Concepts: Interactive Lessons in Biology
    A series of interactive web-based lessons designed to give introductory undergraduate biology students opportunities to connect biology concepts.
  • Cells Alive!
    Information and images about cells from all walks of life.
  • Cell and Molecular Biology Online
    General resources for the biology community with an emphasis on information for cell and molecular biologists.
  • Centre for Bioscience of the UK's Higher Education Academy
    Supports and facilitates the sharing of good teaching practice and learning and teaching resources across the
    biosciences, amongst university level staff around the UK.
  • Developmental Biology, Society for
    Links to developmental biology courses and resources.
  • Genetic Science Learning Center
    A large site with information, tutorials, and some great activities from the University of Utah.
  • Human Biology Guide
    Study notes, using keywords and bullet points, makes it easy for students to review what they have learned in their lessons.
  • Invertebrate Biodiversity (of Iowa)
    Iimage gallery of invertebrates of Iowa.
  • Laboratory Exercises in Evolution (University of Virginia)
    Many links to lab exercises in evolution, plus information about the evolution lab course developed at UofV.
  • MicrobeLibrary
    Contains images (still, animations, videos) of microbes, curriculum materials for the classroom and lab, educational reviews of books, websites, software and videos, an education newsletter and an annual journal.
  • NISE/CL1 Website
    Collaborative learning and learning assessment resources from the National Institute for Science Education.
  • Medline
    Online searching of the Medline journal article database.
  • On-line Mendelian Inheritance in Man
    Access to this extensive database of human inheritance.
  • NIGMS Online Puzzles/Games/Quizzes
    The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has developed and produced fun and interactive crossword puzzles, quizzes, and booklets on different fields of basic biomedical research. These are free for your use.
  • Paleozoic Microfossils and Macrofossils
    Image gallery of Paleozoic (Devonian) microfossil and macrofossils, with emphasis on invertebrates.
  • Tom Volk's Fungi Site
    A very extensive site with much information about fungi.
  • The Tree of Life
    The Tree of Life is a collection of World Wide Web pages which combined present information about the world's organisms.
  • Vadlo
    Vadlo is brought to you by two biology scientists who wish to make it easier to locate biology research related information on the web - use our search engine within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases, and Software.
  • Virtual Cell
    An on-line tour of a plant cell. Zoom in, search for organelles, and view EM images.
  • The Visible Human Project
    The National Library of Medicine's page on this project. Links are provided to several sites which allow you to navitage through the visible humans.
  • Webcutter
    An on-line tool for restriction mapping nucleotide sequences. You can provide the sequence or Web Cutter will find one for you.

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Comprehensive Links Pages

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Biological Animations

Many of the sites in this list require that specific plug-ins be installed before the animations can be viewed. Most sites have a link from which you can obtain the necessary plug-in.

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Biology Lab Manuals

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Suppliers of Biological Materials

  • ADInstruments
    Data acquisition and analysis solutions for community college and higher education institutions.
  • American 3B Scientific
    Biological models -- including human, zoological, botanical and anthropological -- for teachers and students.
  • Anderson Unicom Group
    An on-line product search and order placement service for the life sciences.
  • At Home Science
    Produces self-contained hands-on lab kits with laboratory manual and necessary equipment and supplies for college and high school distance learning courses in biology, chemistry and physics.
  • ATCC
    An on-line index of organisms available from the AmericanType Culture Collection.
  • Berkshire Biologicals
    Suppliers of living biological materials.
  • BioSci Register
    Manual compilation of biotech suppliers enabling buyers to easily source manufacturers of biotechnology equipment for cell biology, cell culture, genomics, proteomics and more. Site includes new projects, free magazines, jobs, news and events.
  • Bioscience Excellence
    Hands-on experiments, background information, and simulated real life scenarios for biotechnology teaching.
  • BioSupplyNet
    An online directory for biomedical products and services.
  • Carolina Biological
    Carolina's site now has on-line ordering and browsing of their catalogs.
  • E. coli
    Index of E. coli strains available from the E. coli Genetic Stock Center at Yale.
  • Educational Innovations
    Supplier of educational science supplies for kindergarten through college.
  • Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory
    A non profit supplier of live marine animals to colleges and universities also a regional marine enviornmental education center for north Florida.
  • Science Stuff
    Online store selling science supplies to teachers and parents.
  • SciQuest
    Your source for scientific vendors, includes search and quote capabilities.
  • SKS Science Products
    Products include glass and plastic lab equipment, and we carry a variety of other laboratory supplies and equipment.
  • WARD'S Natural Science
    A leading provider for all materials needed to teach biology for middle school through university level.
  • Yeast
    Resources for yeast researchers.

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Scientific Organizations

  • AAAS
    American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • ACUBE
    Association of College and University Biology Educators
  • AIBS
    American Institute of Biological Sciences
  • ASM
    American Society for Microbiology
  • ASCB
    American Society for Cell Biology
  • ASP
    American Society of Parasitologists
  • CBE
    Center for Biology Education
  • CUR
    The Council on Undergraduate Research
  • ESA
    Ecological Society of America (educational resources)
  • HAPS
    The Human Anatomy and Physiology Society
  • HHMI
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute (also see the HHMI Holiday Lectures on Science Program)
  • NABT
    National Association of Biology Teachers
  • NSTA
    National Science Teachers Association

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Online Journals

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Biology Course Web Pages

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Digital Images

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