Fall Semester Instructor & Laboratory Coordinator:

Spring Semester Instructor:

Fall Lecture: Times & Location

Spring Lecture: Times & Location

Laboratory:

Textbook: Essential Biology, 2nd Edition. Campbell, N., J. Reese and E. Simon (Benjamin Cummings)

Note: Registration required for site access.

Lecture Notes and additional information for students is posted on Blackboard:

Links helpful for class:

The Biology Project-Univ. of Arizona

Dictionary of Cell Biology

A Genetic Glossary

General Science Journals:

Nature http://www.nature.com/

Science http://www.sciencemag.org/

Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/

Biology Animations:

DNA:

DNA structure (requires Chime plug-in, works with Netscape, not Internet Explorer)
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/dna/index.htm

http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAanatomy.html (requires Shockwave)

DNA replication
http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/dna/repanim.htm (Shockwave)

Transcription
http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAtranscription.html (Shockwave)

Translation
http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAtranslation.html

Replication, transcription & translation (Quicktime)
http://www.vacadsci.org/JSR/movies.htm

 

Evolution

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html (Tree of Life Web Project)

http://www.talkorigins.org/

http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/default.htm (Anthropolgy Program, Palomar College)

http://cgi.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/evolution/ (Public Broadcasting)

http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/ (Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB)

Genetics

http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/default.htm

http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/genetics.html (Genetics Tutorials)

Bacteria, Archaebacteria & Viruses...Classification and Characteristics

bacteria.viruses.htm

http://129.96.230.155/microbio/frameset.htm?/microbio/virus/notes/lecture0.htm  

HIV lifecycle video (NOVA, Public Broadcasting) http://www.pbs.org./wgbh/nova/aids/action.html

Ecology

http://www.ecology.com/

Environment:

Nature Conservancy

http://www.worldwildlife.org/ (World Wildlife Fund)

http://www.nps.gov/ (US National Park Service)

http://www.fws.gov/ (US Fish & Wildlife Service)