Can you describe a gamete without using the words sperm or egg? Scholars play a vocabulary review game where they try to get other players to guess their words. Each card has the target word as well as two related words they must not...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site where students can label the cell cycle as well as take a short quiz on the topic.

Poses and answers the question, "What is (and is not) mitosis?" An overview with images of the phases of mitosis, plus a mitosis animation.

Has explanations, illustrations, and a Quick Time movie to download. Also contains practice test questions that are answered online.

This activity on Mitosis and Meiosis is designed to assess knowledge and understanding of important cell cycle processes, including mitosis and meiosis.

This site from the PBS production, Scientific American Frontier "Never Say Die", includes a section entitled "The Clock of Life". It provides a discussion of cell death through shortening of the telomere. A good class activity included.