WebMD
Medicine Net: Diabetes Mellitus
Very detailed article on diabetes mellitus. Uses a question and answer format to discuss its causes, types, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, and treatments.
WebMD
Medicine Net: Diabetes Mellitus
This site from MedicineNet.com provides the reader with information on diabetes mellitus. Information on type 1, type 2 and metabolic disorders is provided. Links are also provided throughout for additional information.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: The Mysteries of Aging: Is Diet a Contributing Factor?
An interesting article that discusses effects of diet on senescence (the deteriorative aspect of aging). Dietary restriction is found to slow senescence in lab rats.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to Carbohydrates: Lesson 2
This lesson will introduce the basic structure and function of a carbohydrate. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Introduction to Carbohydrates."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Calvin Cycle: Lesson 1
This lesson will introduce the Calvin cycle, and explain how it converts carbon dioxide to sugar. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Calvin Cycle."
WebMD
Web Md: Diabetes Health Center
This article from WebMD Health provides a center of information for diabetes. Up to date articles are provided on great topics, and information from The Cleveland Clinic on a guide to diabetes is also given. This is a great site to check...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Glucose and Atp
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of glucose and ATP.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Photosynthesis
Learn all about photosynthesis from the parts of a plant to the reactions that make food.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Lactose Intolerance
Have you ever eaten ice cream then started feeling really yucky? Kids with lactose intolerance have trouble digesting a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy foods. Learn what this condition is and how you can learn to live with it.
Inner Body
Innerbody: Digestive System
Take a look inside the human body's digestive system. This site features diagrams of the digestive tract and each part is accompanied by labels and descriptions. Just select an organ by moving the mouse over its image.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Helen Free: Indicator for Detecting Glucose
This site provides information on the collaboration of Alfred and Helen Free and thier medical discoveries.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Carbohydrates
This is a rather advanced site outlining carbohydrates, and their various forms.
Read Works
Read Works: A Sweet Sickness
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage traces the first recordings of diabetes to current day treatments for this condition. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
Remedy Health Media
Health Central: Hypoglycemia
In-depth article that discusses the disease hypoglycemia, its causes, risk factors, prevention, symptoms, and treatment.
Bryn Mawr College
Serendip: Who Took Jerell's I Pod? An Organic Compound Mystery
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Who Took Jerell's iPod? lab along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF or Word formats. Students are challenged to solve a mystery by testing for...
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Photosynthesis
This resource identifies the main parts of the photosynthesis process. Learn more about how sunlight plays in plant growth.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Photosynthesis
This lesson focuses on photosynthesis including what it is, the word and symbol equations for photosynthesis, how it works, and how the extra glucose is used. It also offers links to a video and a test.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Products of Glycolysis
Explains what happens during glycolysis in eukaryotic cells, what the products are, their composition, and their properties.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cancer and Hexokinase
Practice for the MCAT with these questions based on the given graphs and tables about hexokinase.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hemiacetal Formation of Carbohydrates
Practice for the MCAT with this quiz on carbohydrates.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 2.13 Photosynthesis
Understand the process of photosynthesis that allows plants to grow.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: What Is Type 2 Diabetes?
A brief article that explains how type 2 diabetes develops in the body.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Photosynthesis Carbon Fixation
This site provides a review ofoverall reaction of photosynthesis and outlines chemical reactions leading to the synthesis of carbohydrates.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Grupo De Problemas De Metabolismo
The purpose of this set of problems is to give you a basic understanding of some of the fundamental concepts of metabolism. The correct answers for the multiple choices problems are reinforced with a brief explanation and the incorrect...