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I know.net: Mitosis
A complete site from iKnow.net that compares the various phases of mitosis in plant and animal cells. Text is supplemented with pictures of each phase.
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Elmhurst College: Protein Synthesis
Illustrated explanation of the different steps in protein synthesis. At the end of the article, there are links to some good animations of the process.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Dna Arrays
Animation showing the mechanics of a DNA array, a recently discovered method to analyze patterns of gene expression at different timepoints in a living cell.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Do Bread and Beer Have in Common?
Young scholars are presented with information that will allow them to recognize that yeasts are unicellular organisms that are useful to humans. In fact, their usefulness is derived from the contrast between the way yeast cells and human...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna From the Beginning: Dna Is Only the Beginning
The human genome project was established to determine the sequence of DNA bases that are found in each human cell. Understanding what the resulting proteins do is an entirely different project. This page is about how we are trying to...
Florida State University
Florida State University: Virus Structure
View a colorful 3-D diagrams of viruses and learn about how their structure helps them infect plants, animals, and bacteria.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Estrella Community College: Animal Cells and Tissues
Notes on different tissues of the body such as: connective, epithelial, muscle, and nervous. Helpful terms and definitions as well as review questions. Colorful graphics of important terms are also provided.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Botany: Respiration
The process of respiration in plants, humans, and animals is discussed, along with diseases that can affect respiration. (Published: November 16, 2011)
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Genetic Therapy and Breast Tumors
This video segment from the Secret of Life School Video: "On the Brink: Portraits of Modern Science" explores the genetics of breast cancer. [3:40]
Other
Johnson County Community College: Active Transport
This site provides a short but factual description of active transport. An animation displaying the process of active transport is also provided.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Plant Reproduction and Life Cycle
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The life cycle of a plant is very different from the life cycle of an animal. Humans are made entirely of diploid cells (cells with two sets of chromosomes). Our...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Transcription & Translation: Transcription Basic
A brief animation showing the basics of DNA transcription in cells. [1:52]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna Learning Center: Nobel Laureates in Dn Aft B
An animation showing the research of David Baltimore and Howard Temin that found the interaction between the genetic material of the cell and tumor viruses.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Single Displacement Reaction
Interactive animation showing the changes that take place during a single displacement reaction. See how the molecules move about when making a voltaic cell.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Learn About Genetics: Genes & Inheritance
An animation introducing the basic concepts of cells, DNA, recessive inheritance, and Punnett squares.
Cells Alive
Hiv Infection and Aids
Shows the step by step process by which the HIV virus takes over a cell and makes copies of itself. Each explanation is animated.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Oxygen's Surprisingly Complex Journey Through Your Body
In the body, oxygen forms a vital role in the production of energy in most cells. Enda Butler tracks the surprisingly complex journey of oxygen through your body.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Los Seres Vivos Unicelulares Y Pluricelulares
In this unit you will be introduced to the complexity of living things. It also reviews the kingdom of nature, differentiating between their main features from those who are microscopic unit-cellular to the multi-cellular visible to the...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Makes You You? What Makes Me Me?
Simple animation explains the function of chromosomes, genes, and DNA by letting you zoom into a cell nucleus for a closer look.
Other
Planet Ark: World Environmental News
Welcome to Planet Ark's daily Reuters World Environment News - the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net. To read previous news stories, please use the search engine below to find stories relating to any...
Curated OER
I know.net: Mitosis
A complete site from iKnow.net that compares the various phases of mitosis in plant and animal cells. Text is supplemented with pictures of each phase.
Curated OER
I know.net: Mitosis
A complete site from iKnow.net that compares the various phases of mitosis in plant and animal cells. Text is supplemented with pictures of each phase.
Curated OER
I know.net: Mitosis
A complete site from iKnow.net that compares the various phases of mitosis in plant and animal cells. Text is supplemented with pictures of each phase.
Curated OER
I know.net: Mitosis
A complete site from iKnow.net that compares the various phases of mitosis in plant and animal cells. Text is supplemented with pictures of each phase.