Kimball's Biology Pages: Muscles

Everything you've ever needed to know about muscles. To be used as classroom notes or a supplement for learning.

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.

An overview of the nitrogen cycle, covering nitrogen fixation, decay, nitrification, denitrification, and more.

Useful introduction to the carbon cycle with a diagram and a discussion of the effects of carbon dioxide on the greenhouse effect and global warming.

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.

Site from Kimball's Biology Pages provides information on Asexual Reproduction in plants, and also in animals, where it is less common. Includes information on stems, leaves, roots, plant propagation and apomixis.

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!

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.

An online biology textbook page on insect hormones. Full of labeled, color diagrams for better understanding.

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.