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Academic Press Limited: The Dictionary of Cell Biology This server contains the text of the Second edition, published in April 1995, together with enhancements, hypertext links and new entries which are destined for the third edition. Also available via http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/dictionary/. More than 6500 records!
Acricultural Genome Information System (AGIS), Plant Thesauri: Morphological Terms Index, and Cytogenetic Terms Index, and Plant Thesauri.
babylon.com Ltd.: Dictionaries & Glossaries. Go to: Science & Technology, Biology.
University of California, Berkeley Museum, Natural History Glossary: Volume 1: Phylogenetics
University of California, Berkeley Museum, Natural History Glossary: Volume 3: Biochemistry
University of California, Berkeley Museum, Natural History Glossary: Volume 4: Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley Museum, Natural History Glossary: Volume 7: Zoology
BIOSIS, Internet Resource Guide for Zoology: Glossary of terms commonly occurring in zoological taxonomic literature Part 1 A-L, and Glossary of terms commonly occurring in zoological taxonomic literature Part 2 M-Z.
BioTech, Indiana University, located at University of Texas at Austin: An illustrated Dictionary. Information on thousands of life science terms. It contains links to specialist plant, animal and chemical database sites.
Tsute (George) Chen, Channing Laboratory, Boston: Glossary of Microbiology.
Mike Crisp, Society of Australian Systematic Biologists: Introductory Glossary of Cladistic Terms.
Michael J. Farabee, Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona: Online Biology Book Glossary.
! Harcourt Inc. and Academic Press: Dictionary of Science and Technology. The dictionary consists of 2,464 pages and contains a total of 133,007 entries (in 130 fields of science), making it the largest scientific dictionary ever compiled in the English language. Browse the Scientific Fields Covered by the Dictionary, or search for Evolution, Botany, Life Science, Biology, and Ecology. Excellent!
Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, University of Gent, and Mercator College, Department of Applied Linguistics (commissioned by The European Commission): Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages. This site provides access to a glossary of about 1,400 scientific and popular medical terms in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek and Danish.
John W. Kimball and/or Wm C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa: Kimball´s Biology Pages This page consist of a list of topics, arranged alphabetically, of biological terms. The terms are mostly from the areas of molecular and cellular biology. Each item may include a definition, underlined links to other definitions, or links to "mini" essays on the topic.
S.M. Mandaville, Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax: Limnological terms, definitions, acronyms and concepts.
Peter Ommundsen, Selkirk College, Canada: Pronunciation of Biological Latin. Including taxonomic names of plants and animals.
Dennis O'Neil, Palomar College, San Marcos, California: The Basic Principles of Genetics, Glossary of Terms. Includes definitions and sounds.
Michael Pidwirny, Department of Geography, Okanagan University College: Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Glossary of Terms.
Jeff Poling, Dinosauria Online: Dictionary.
! James L. Reveal, Norton-Brown Herbarium, University of Maryland: FindIT, Links to Web Sites of Botanical Interest, Dictionaries. Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology - Life Sciences - e.g. Biology, Botany, Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Molecular Biology, Systematics, etc. Excellent!
Birgid Schlindwein, Weihenstephan Information and Documentation Centre (IDW), Technische Universität München - Weihenstephan: Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms. A collection of currently 589 terms. Wildcards (*) are needed in the name to find anything other than an exact match.
UNL AgNIC Plant Sciences Page. From the Libraries of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC). Dictionaries. This page contains links to (chiefly biological) dictionaries, glossaries and similar reference tools.
World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, Biodiversity Site:
Biodiversity Glossary of Terms, and
http://www.wri.org/wri/biodiv/gbs-glos.html.
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