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Relevant Web Sites for General Biology

When you are researching start at the library. They have a great assortment of journals on a variety of subjects. In addition they have a great database. However, sometimes you can only preview abstracts. You need the whole article for your current event. Remember just because an article is on the database does not make it relevant to your subject.

Library Databases

This is an excellent source of information. You need a password to enter the databases.

The OCTC library has a number of science databases and links from the library page. You do need passwords for these sources. You can get the passwords for these resources when you are issued a library card. You can get a library card by going to the library once you have registered. Make sure you do this early in the semester!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.owecc.net/

*Go to online library

*Scroll down to the example:

health and medicine databases

*Click on the name of the database.

*On the Proquest databases you need to search for a subject. So be careful that it only picks up medical literature and not popular press.

*On the Ebsco sites you can click on any biomedical or health collection. Click the html symbol and it will give you a list of journals.

*You can also click on the Access Science database at the top of the online library screen. It also requests a topic.

Many of these sites have journal articles, summaries, diagrams, quizzes, and case studies that can be a great help. If you find any other interesting biology sites please tell me about them.

Google

Google.com

This search engine is very easy to use. If you look under graphics you can pick up course material from a number of university. Various professors keep there class notes on the web and this gives you a chance to pick up that information. Just give it a subject, pick the graphic that looks interesting, and than click on the site under the graphic. (If you look for web sites you can pick up some irrelevant sites) I have even found hundreds of labeled tissue slides.

Textbook

www.brookscole.com

Your book contains the password. Textbook sites are great references.

What is Science?

http://nobel.se/medicine/articles/research/

Basic research-the life line of medicine

http://www.nigms.nih.gov/news/science_ed/whydo.html

Why do basic research?

http://pc65.frontier.osrhe.edu/hs/science/feynman/htm

Science, non-science, and pseudoscience

Classification

http://pylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

The tree of life

http://www.ucmp.berkley.edu/help/taxaform.html

University of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology

Evolution

http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Darwin on-line. Everything that has was ever published by Darwin and than some

www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/biblio/etoday.htm British Broadcasting site on evolution and Charles Darwin.

www.nature.com/nature/ancestor/index.html Current and classic articles focusing on human origins

http://www.talkorigins.org

research.amnh.org/ornithology/crossbills/index.html

www.sigmaxi,org/Amsci/articles/95articles/cdeduve.html

The beginnings of life on Earth

www.sciam.com/explorations/112596explorations.html

www.ucr.edu/SubPages/2CurNewsFold/Tabloid/Octtab/Research/droser.html

www.ucmp.berkley.edu/diapsids/extinction.html

What killed the dinosaurs

www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/frontier/10-97/10demise.htm

More proof of the dinosaurs' demise

www.dinofish.com/

www.aibs.org/biosciencelibrary/vol47sept.97.birds.html

www.selu.com/~bio/PrimateGallery/index.html

www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

www.ucmp.berkley.edu/vertebrates/vertfr.html

cns-web.bu.edu/pub/dorman/trans_faq.html

nmnhwww.si.edu/msw/

General Biology

www.biointeractive.org Labs, animations and a virtual museum

http://aaibs.digiscript.com Library of lectures from premier biologists

http://www.accessexcellence.org/

This links to a wide variety of informative sites.

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/

This includes information and assistance on most of general biology including genetics. It also links to a wide variety of informative sites

http://www-itg.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/Whole.Frog/Whole.Frog.html

Virtual frog dissection

www.whitman.edu/offices_departments/biology/vpd/main.html

Virtual fetal pig dissection

http://www.aaas.org/

Access science

http://whyfiles.org/index.html

The science behind events in the news. This maybe a great place to check for information for your paper.

Genetics

http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/basic/

http//:biology.washington.edu/fingerprint/dnaintro.html

DNA fingerprinting

www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/publicat/primer/prim2.html#4.1

DNA Sequencing Technologies

www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/tko/index/html

www.humandesign.com Current advances in human reengineering

Plants

www.x4all.nl/~steurh/home.html

www.ou.edu/cas/botanymicro/ben/ben120.html

www.ucmp.berkely.edu/anthopyta/anthophytafr.html

www.colby.edu/info.tech?BI211/PlantFamilyID.html

General Chemistry

http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/index.php

http://library.thinkquest.org/2923/

http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/ChemTeamIndex.html

Environment

www.audubon.org/campaign/aa/index.html