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General Biology

Title: MIT Biology Hypertextbook

URL: http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/7001main.html

This biology textbook is in conjunction with an introductory biology class at MIT. Some chapters are large molecules, cell biology, enzyme biochemistry, glycolosis and the Krebs cycle and photosynthesis.

Title: Kimball’s Book on the Web

URL: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/

Representative of an online biology textbook, this site makes available many subjects in hypertext allowing the cross referencing of hundreds of subjects.

Title: American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)

URL: http://www.aibs.org/core/index.html

The AIBS site supplies information about news, publications, programs and services provided in the biological sciences field.

Title: ATCC: The Global BioResource Center

URL: www.atcc.org

The ATCC is a global nonprofit bioresource center that offers biological products, technical services, and educational programs to private industry, government, and academic organizations. Subjects included are ATCC distributors, ATCC cultures, ATCC byproducts, and ATCC special collections.

Title: Carnegie Institution of Washington Plant Biology Department

URL: http://www-ciwdpb.stanford.edu/

The Department of Biology website includes information about the Carnegie institute, research interests and news, personnel directory, publications, protocols and a seminar schedule. The listing of links also includes information regarding Stanford research, departments and programs.

Title: Stanford University Biological Sciences Department

URL:http://www.stanford.edu/dept/biology/

The Biological Sciences department website contains information about the programs offered at Stanford, as well as student resources and faculty information. Also listed are research sites on campus such as BioStores and Hopkins Marine Station.

Title: The Biology Project

URL: http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html

Developed at the University of Arizona, the biology project is a comprehensive database of resources about multiple biological subjects. Also provided are many teaching and learning tools such as tutorials and problem sets.

Title: Biology Online

URL: http://www.biology-online.org/default.htm

Biology online is broken into three categories, dictionary of biology, biology tutorials and biology on the web. Each category offers information on a variety of biological subjects, such as cell biology, genetics, ecology and neurology.

Title: Bio Netbook

URL: http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/BNB/bnb-en.html

The BioNetbook is a large directory of pages on the web about Biology. Searching parameters include searching by a word, searching by topics, combining words and topics, lookup in a geographical directory, or browsing the entire database.

Title: Online Directory for Biology Education

URL: http://www.top20biology.com/

This online directory includes lists of resources for multiple topics in biology, such as biology 101, botany, zoology, insects and evolution. Also listed are the top 20 sites for Biology.

Title: Bio Sciences Virtual Library

URL: http://vlib.org/Biosciences.html

This virtual library contains information on various subjects, such as biodiversity, botany, medicine, parasites, microbiology and zoology. Each subject heading leads to a listing of databases, servers and links about that subject.

Title: Biology Browser

URL: www.biologybrowser.org

BiologyBrowser, produced by BIOSIS, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. The information provided is either produced exclusively for BIOSIS, or collected from reputable outside sources.

Title: On-line Biology Book

URL: http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html

This E-Book contains over 50 chapters with general biology information. Some of the chapter titles are cells, proteins, thermodynamics, reactions, plants and diversity. The end of each chapter contains learning objectives, terms, review questions and links.

Title: Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

URL: http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Infomine has over 100,000 searchable, academically valuable resources, most specifically a section on biological, agricultural and medical sciences. After searching for a specific term, Infomine retrieves a myriad of databases and sources pertaining to that term.

Title: Peterson’s Guides

URL: www.petersons.com