American Museum of Natural History
All About Cloning
Start seeing double. The American Museum of Natural History website provides pupils with information about Dolly, the cloned sheep. Learners find out the procedure used to create Dolly along with why scientists clone animals.
National Institutes of Health
Ncbi: Human Genome Resources
This site covers information on all the human chromosomes, has interesting illustrations as well.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Human Genome Project Overview
Explains the goals of the Human Genome Project. It also explains some of the ethical, legal and social challenges associated with this new technology.
University of Arizona
Pulse: Dawn of New Revolutions
A cross curricular unit focusing on how much and what kinds of foods are produced because of pesticides and genetically engineered foods. Students will investigate the impact on humans due to the new technology in food production. Topics...
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J. Craig Venter Institute
A non-profit research institute that specializes in the capture of genome information on all forms of life, including human. Information is very scholarly.
US Department of Energy
Doe: Joint Genome Institute
This Department of Energy site has up-to-date information and statistics on the progress of all JGI genome sequencing projects.