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Kimball's Biology Pages: Antibacterial Agents
This site lists the different antibiotics, tells how they disrupt the life cycle of the bacteria, and give examples of where in nature the antibiotic is from- i.e., penicillin -> bread mold.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Enzymes
This is a good page for explaining the development and function of enzymes. It includes links to help with the chemistry and the biology that comes up.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Mosses and Liverworts
A lesson on the classification of mosses and liverworts as well as the physical make up and similarities of the species.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Muscles
A thorough discussion of the skeletal muscle, smooth muscle and the cardiac muscle. Muscular diseases are highlighted in this site as well.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Phenylketonuria (Pku)
Read about phenylketonuria and the tests used to diagnose it in those who might have inherited this recessive trait.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Cladistics
This page discusses how the cladistic level of classification includes information from molecular biology to establish evolutionary relationships. The page discusses how this information is used to do this.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium
Discusses conditions needed for the Hardy-Weinberg Law to hold true and demonstrates calculations involving allelic frequencies to illustrate this principle.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Sexual Reproduction in Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)
This site, from retired Harvard professor John W. Kimball, provides a detailed but understandable explanation of sexual reproduction in flowering plants. Includes informative, well labelled illustrations.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Atp (Adenosine Triphosphate)
A good biochemistry site that includes information about the structure of adenosine triphosphate and a description of the role that it plays in the cell.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Transport Across Cell Membranes
This site has information on how facilitated diffusion of ions takes place through proteins, or assemblies of proteins, embedded in the plasma membrane. Includes a helpful diagram.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Insect Hormones
An online biology textbook page on insect hormones. Full of labeled, color diagrams for better understanding.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: The Kidneys
An online biology textbook on the structure and function of the kidneys. Full of labeled, color diagrams for better understanding.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: The Protists
A brief, but informative paragraph describing the parasitic nature of sporozoans, part of a larger page about single-celled organisms.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Restriction Enzymes
This site is a retired biology professor's explanation of restriction enzymes. Good visual showing examples of how enzymes cut DNA to produce blunt or sticky ends.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: T Helper Cells
A good site devoted to the T-cell and its role in the immune response. Complete coverage including vocabulary links throughout.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Gene Translation: Rna to Protein
Very good description of the process of translation with a good graphic to go along with it. Includes a chart classifying all of the RNA Codons.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Vertebrate Lungs
This personal page defines and compares the gas exchanges by the lungs of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Offers detailed images.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: The Human Eye
Written by a former author of Biology textbooks, this page describes not only color vision, but the anatomy of the eye, and color blindness. Easy to understand language.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Transportation in Plants
A very good explanation of the processes of water transport in plants. Includes graphics that accompany this very detailed explanation.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Animal Cells
A diagram of a labelled animal cell. Major structures of the animal cell have linked reference information about their structure and function.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Animal Circulatory Systems
This page has information on different types of animal circulatory systems. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find out about mammals.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: B Cells and T Cells
A very strong overview of cell mediated immunity and the roles of the different cells within the system.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Chloroplasts
This site touches on all the high points of chloroplasts. Includes pictures and diagrams, as well as links to more detailed information.
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Kimball's Biology Pages: Anatomy of the Human Circulatory System
This site is produced by John W. Kimball, a retired biology teacher who wrote the textbook that these pages came from. The excerpt explains the different parts of the circulation system and how they function. Includes great pictures!