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Biocrawler.com: History of Biology.

Peter J. Bryant, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine: Biodiversity and Conservation. A hypertextbook about the origin, nature and value of biological diversity, the threats to its continued existence, and approaches to preserving what is left.

Phil Cantino and Gar Rothwell, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens: PBIO 691 Graduate Seminar Series, Phylogenetic Taxonomy. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to see some of these notes. "Phylogenetic taxonomy" is an alternative system of taxonomy and nomenclature that was first proposed by Kevin de Queiroz and Jacques Gauthier. It differs from the current "Linnaean" system in linking names explicitly to clades rather than to arbitrary ranks such as family and order. Worth checking out: Helpful Background Literature.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: DNA from the Beginning. This excellent animated and easy to understand online textbook is organized around key concepts. The science behind each concept is explained by: animation, image gallery, video interviews, problem, biographies, and links.

Douglas J. Eernisse, Department of Biological Science, California State University, Fullerton: About Hierarchies.

Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History: Spectrum of Life. 28 major groups of organisms organized into basic divisions of life, explained in a nutshell.

Kathleen M. Fisher, Stacy Gomes, Susan Levine, Rebecca Smith & Robert Weeks: Biology Lessons for Prospecting and Practicing Teachers (under construction).

Scott Gilbert, Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore: ZYGOTE The major function of this website is to provide materials to supplement and enrich courses in developmental biology. While its chapter headings are those of a textbook, the learner is able to choose his or her own path through the different "exhibits". It is more like a museum than a book.

M. Alan Kazlev, Kheper website, Australia: Prokaryotes.

Richard Lees, United Kingdom: Biology Online. This Web site is ideal suited for high school students, or in general, avid learners or people surfing around the web. It starts at the basics, and covers a cross section of biological issues, which can educated an individual to Pre-University Standard.

Edward Lipson, Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: Science for the 21 Century, Lecture XVI — Origin of Life, and Lecture XIV — What is Life? Lecture slides.

Mike May, HMS Beagle, Issue 69, December 24, 1999 - January 20, 2000. HMS Beagle is a publication of BioMedNet, BioMedNet Ltd.: A Biological Century. Web resources on some of the century's most intriguing biological events.

Gilbert J. Muth, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA: Biological Foundations. Biological Foundations is the botany section of the a three quarter sequence in general biology for biology majors and pre-professional students. It contains 38 lectures with a (incomplete) supporting glossary, photographs, photomicrographs, diagrams, animations, video clips, self test and set of references.

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. An introduction to Mendelian Genetics.

Jose Sarukhan (Tinker Visiting Professors, Stanford University), Access Excellance, BioForum 4, "Theoretical Issues in Plant Biology": Biodiversity. BioForum is a series of lectures, presented by California Academy of Sciences, in which scientists share their research results with high school biology teachers.

Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana: Virtual Cell. This is a collection of still images, texts and movies covering the structure and functioning of a typical plant cell.

SpaceRef.com: NASA's astrobiology home page. For instance: Life in Extreme Environments.

Francis F. Steen, Department of English, University of California at Santa Barbara: Can Matter Store Active Information? Landmarks in the history of genetics.

Stephen M. Wolniak, Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland: An Introduction to Mitosis. Mitosis is the process that facilitates the equal partitioning of replicated chromosomes into two identical groups.