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Biology
Tree of Life - "The Tree of Life is a collection of World
Wide Web pages that present information about the world's
organisms. Each page presents information about a particular
group."
PLANTS National Database Home Page
- "The PLANTS Database provides a single source of standardized information about
plants. PLANTS provides standardized plant names, symbols and other plant attribute
information."
American Society for Microbiology
- The ASM is the
oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world with over
40,000 members worldwide. This site gives full information about the organization and its
activities. The section on "ASM Programs, Products, and Services" allows access
to browse current tables of contents of the twelve journals published by
ASM.
Biological Resources Discipline - USGS
- The Biological Resources Discipline of USGS web page provides access to the National Biological Information
Infrastructure. "The NBII will provide information on and access to biological
databases, information products, directories and guides maintained by Federal, State, and
local government agencies, and private organizations."
Encyclopedia of Earth
This new
electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and
their interaction with society was started in 2007. The Encyclopedia is
a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by
scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate
and review each other's work. The articles are written in
non-technical language and will be useful to students,
educators, scholars, and professionals.
Smithsonian Natural History Web Home Page
- In
addition to descriptions of current exhibits and programs, this web page provides access to
the research and collections databases supporting activities of the National Museum of
Natural History.
Darwin Online
- "This site contains Darwin's complete publications, 20,000
private papers, the largest Darwin bibliography, manuscript
catalogue and hundreds of supplementary works: specimens,
biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and much
more."
Electronic BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA
- This digital edition of the out-of-print Biologia Centrali-Americana,
now more than 100 years old, will eventually make all 58
biological volumes available. Included are descriptions of
over 50,000 and wonderful images of over 18,000 species of animals
and plants from Mexico and Central America.
GrantsNet - A
searchable database that provides information on biomedical grants
and fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students as well as
junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows.
Allen Brain Atlas -
Developed by the Allen Institute for Brain Science,
the Allen Brain Atlas is a freely
available scientific resource
which provides maps of the expression of approximately 20,000 genes
in the mouse brain. This site also includes images of genes
in the human cortex.
BirdLife International: State of the World's Birds
- Important research papers featured on this site are divided
into four sections that include an introduction and three
additional sections that cover why birds are declining, the
current state of information about bird populations, and what
can be done to improve the status of birds around the world.
Frogs: A
Chorus of Colors
- Enjoy the sights and sounds of a major exhibition on frogs,
produced by the American Museum of Natural History.
The following sites are great starting points to use for locating lots of other biological
information on the Internet:
BiologyBrowser (assembled by BIOSIS)
Biology Links (Harvard University's
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Cell & Molecular Biology Online
These last three sites are samples of the use of 3D visualization and
animation in modern biological
teaching. You may need to load special helper applications for the sound and movies that
are used in many of these productions.
Biology in Motion -- provides interactive education activities such as
Evolution Lab, to investigate how natural selection works, and a Cell
Division exercise. Useful for teachers working in classrooms at
the elementary or secondary level.
LBL IYTG Whole
Frog Project -- from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Netfrog -- from the
Instructional Technology Program, Department of Educational Studies, University of
Virginia
If you have questions or difficulty locating the information you need, please ask for
assistance at the Library's Help Desk.
Please send comments or suggestions about this page to
Barbara MacAlpine, Science Librarian.
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