National Institutes of Health
Ncbi: Human Genome Resources
This site covers information on all the human chromosomes, has interesting illustrations as well.
National Institutes of Health
National Center for Biotechnology Information: Education
This link has many tools to help understand the revolutionary sciences and discoveries in genetics.
BBC
Bbc Mundo: Decodificando a La Humanidad Del Adn
Learn about DNA and decoding the human genome by clicking graphical DNA models. You can also review a timeline that shows important moments in human genetics research. In Spanish.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Meiosis in Lily Anther Microsporocytes
This cell biology page is illustrated with photographs of plant meiosis taking place in a cell.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Dihybrid Problem Set
This site is provided by the University of Arizona and it gives great information on the subject. Good collection of dihybrid crosses which exemplify the issue of independent assortment. Work these once you think you've mastered th concept.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Your Glorious Gene Pool
Students read the books like I Am the Dog. I Am the Cat by Donald Hall and Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and read the lyrics while listening to the song "Shallow End of the Gene Pool" by the Austin Lounge Lizards. Then students learn...
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Genetica Humana
This is a great unit on human genetics. It contains 17 interactive activities.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Online Biology Book: Introduction to Genetics
This college-level biology reference book introduces the study of heredity and genetics using diagrams and descriptive illustrations.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Online Biology Book: Control of Gene Expression
Online biology textbook illustrates the control of gene expression. Includes information on the role DNA plays in this study of science.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Active Science: Genes and Inheritance
An interactive website that explores information about genes, mitosis, meiosis, cloning, and gene mutation. Concepts are discussed in detail with an interactive glossary and animations. At the end of each section quick questions are...
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Practice Quiz for Mendelian Genetics
This site from Palomar College provides an online practice quiz includes history as well as some of the genetics. Includes feedback. A great learning and practice site.
Other
Personal Site / Mendels Discoveries
This personal site gives the seven characteristics that Mendel observed and a fairly large background to what Mendel saw and interpreted.
Other
University of Connecticut: Genetic Drift
A Java simulation of genetic drift where users can select a starting allele frequency, population size, and a maximum number of generations. Simulation gives a graph that shows allele frequency versus generation number.
Other
North Dakota State: Central Dogma
Information about how DNA is viewed in modern biology (it is at the center) and what its role is.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Patterns of Human Inheritance: Self Check Quiz
A quick, five question multiple-choice quiz assessing the basic patterns of human inheritance.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Complex Patterns of Inheritance: Self Check Quiz
A quick, five question multiple-choice quiz assessing complex patterns of human inheritance.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Genetics and Biotechnology: Chapter Test Practice
Fifteen multiple choice review questions over genetics and biotechnology. After the quiz, the self-checking feature allows students to see which were the correct answers.
Other
Rothamsted Research: A Beginners' Guide to Molecular Biology
A notebook of information from details about the cell to gene and functions to biotechnology. Website includes images, movies, and textbook information.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Genes
Access Excellence offers an explanation of genes is supplemented with an illustration of the placement of genes in a chromosome.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ornl: Human Genome Project Resources
Many different resources can be accessed through this page from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A valuable reference page for teachers and students.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ornl: Genomics and Its Impact on Science
This site from the Human Genome Project for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the index page for chapters which include an introduction to genes, the mapping sequence of genes, and the impact and future of the Human Genome Project.
Other
Human Genome Sequencing Center (Baylor College of Med)
Resource presents information about the human genome sequencing project and has links to other genome projects besides the Human Genome Project.
Biology 4 kids
Biology4 Kids: Chromosomes Pull Up Those Genes
Read about how the genetic information in a cell is organized in the nucleus.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan's experiments with the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as a model system.