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Cuny: Emily Bronte
Professor Melani offers notes about Bronte's background, the novel itself, how it was received, and several interpretations.
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Cuny: Charles Dickens
Professor Melani offers commentary and notes on Charles Dickens' life and on Great Expectations in particular. Site includes links to other Dickens resources.
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Cuny: Thomas Hardy's "Tess"
This page offers some notes on Hardy's novel, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, including some critical perspectives.
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Cuny: William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair
Illustrated essays are the primary feature of this site. Includes a number of links to other resources, and a fairly detailed discussion of "Vanity Fair."
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Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabbler"
A thorough site which covers contemporary response to the play, characters, themes and resources, this is worth look for both teachers and students.
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Bio Lab Module: Breaking the Genetic Code
Try this interactive module from the Brooklyn College to help understand the genetic code and how changes in the code effect the final protein product.
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Brother Gregory's Dinner: Food Energy Content
Use a virtual calorimeter to investigate the energy content of various foods. The background information is clear and easy to understand.
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Brooklyn College: Osmosis Interactive Activity
Great activity with clear background information. Try out the lab using osmosis to calculate molecular weight.
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Brooklyn College:heat and Temperature Interactive Lab
Use this online activity to explore how various substances respond to changes in temperature. Learn how to calibrate a thermometer.
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Brooklyn College: Medelian Genetics
This set of seven activities will proved a thorough review of Mendel's work. The interactive experiments are easy to follow and drive home the concepts.
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Exploring Life: Response to Stimuli
A good explanation of the concept that living things respond to their environment, or stimuli in their environment. The site gives real life examples.
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Brooklyn College: Growth and Reproduction
This site from the Brooklyn College provides a brief, but good, explanation of the meaning of biological growth and how it relates to the process of reproduction.
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Brooklyn College: Heredity
A very brief introduction to the meaning of heredity as a major characteristic of living things.
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Energy: Characteristics of Life
An explanation of types of energy, how living things use energy and how they can convert energy forms. This is a good, basic, start to studying this characteristic of life.
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Brooklyn College: Exploring Life @ Bi Odot Edu: Signs of Life: Complexity
A nice introduction to the idea that living things are highly organized at several different levels. Great as an introduction to biological complexity.
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Exploring Life@bi Odot Edu: Cell Theory
Essay on the history of our knowledge of cells and the development of the cell theory.
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Brooklyn College: The World of Cells: Prokaryotic Cells
A very nice introduction to this group organized in a concise, easy to follow format.
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The World of Cells: Osmosis
This definition and explanation osmosis shows how water diffuses from regions where it is in high concentration to regions where it is in low concentration.
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The World of Cells: Endo and Exocytosis
The two processes are compared on a brief essay. Use this for an introduction or general review material.
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The World of Cells: Viruses
Alive or not, viruses are introduced in an easy to follow essay that explains many basic concepts.
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Brooklyn College: Endoplasmic Reticulum
A good introduction to the structure and function of this cell system.
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The World of Cells: Mitochondria
Check this out if you want only the basic information on structure and function of mitochondria. It is accurate, but not too detailed.
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The World of Cells: Nucleus
A good description of the structure and function of the nucleus.
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Brooklyn College: Genotype and Phenotype
In this informative site, you will find the definition of genotype and phenotype, an explanation of the relationship between genotype and phenotype, an example of a genetic trait, an explanation of the flow of information from DNA to...