These guides are designed to point you to library resources (i.e. books, articles, and statistical sources) and quality websites for your research.
As viewed from a human perspective, nature has done some ingenious engineering to overcome some of the obstacles it has faced. Take the evolution of sex, for instance... [from author]
Since 1994, a growing number of foods developed using the tools of the science of biotechnology have come onto both the domestic and international markets. With these products has come controversy, primarily in Europe where some question whether these foods are as safe as foods that have been developed using the more conventional approach of hybridization. [from the author]
The Cornell Integrated Microscopy Center (CIMC) is a resource center that offers instructional and research services in microscopy to the Cornell community. In addition, CIMC explores new specimen preparation/imaging methods for microscopy, and disseminates the existing state-of-the art microscopy techniques to researchers in the community. [from site]
Welcome to the Molecular Expressions Virtual Microscopy website. We invite you to visit the interactive Java-powered virtual microscopes that we have constructed. These virtual microscopes explore specimen focus, illumination intensity, magnification, and translation---operating essentially in a manner that is identical to real-life microscopes. [from site]
A simple animation of the protein synthesis process.
An animation of active and passive membrane transport.
An animation of the transcription process (requires Macromedia Shockwave).
An online interactive resource for learning biology, the University of Arizona’s Biology Project site offers good review material in biochemistry, as well as topics in cell biology. It includes problem sets and tutorials.
Apply your knowledge of genetic information to the subject of genetic engineering, an interesting and controversial topic these days.
Cells Alive is a website that provides a mixture of free and fee-based material. It includes movies of living cells, cell models, mitosis, cell cycle, movement of substances across cell membranes, apoptosis, enhancing micrographs and phagocytosis.
Kimball’s Biology Pages is a basic online Biology textbook. It includes typical Cell and Molecular Biology topics.
The Cell Biology site includes topics organized by organelles, such as mitochondria, membranes, microtubules, and the nucleus, as well as by processes within the cell such as protein synthesis and receptor mediated endocytosis. It includes quizzes and links to other good material.
To hear the pronunciation of important genetics vocabulary, consult the Merriam-Websters online dictionary. (Note: The site requires the latest version of WinAmp for IBM compatible computers.)
Virtual micoscopy from the University of Alberta Electron Microscope Facility.