Biology Links
Here are some web links that may be of interest in biological sciences and biology education. Expect this page to change often, so remember to "Reload" it. Let me know when links stop working or if there are sites you especially like that others might also find useful.
Your Textbook's Online Biology Resource Center:
Wadsworth Biology Resource Center Home Page (very extensive and very useable; consider that support for this web site is part of what you bought when you paid for your textbook!) You should especially take advantage of their Tutorial Quizzes and Hypercontents sections for each chapter (instructions for this on the Biology 120 home page).
General or Broad-Ranging Biology Resources:
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biosciences (not fancy, but about as complete as it is possible to be)
National Biological Service (NBS), federal agency within the U.S. Geological Survey - USGS has its own listing of Biology web links.
Useful sites or sets of links built by other academic institutions:
Amherst College Library BIOLOGY RESOURCES
From MIT: The ESG Biology Hypertextbook Home Page and its Hypertextbook Chapters (VERY nicely done.)
The Biology Project at the University of Arizona (description below)
Systems Science:
MIT System Dynamics in Education Project (SDEP)
Molecular/Cell Biology:
The Biology Project at the University of Arizona (interactive learning tutorial for biology; many topics at the molecular/cell level. A lovely and useful site.)
Evolution:
The WWW Virtual Library: Evolution (Biosciences)
Web Resources on Evolution and Phylogeny
Kentucky Geological Survey (part of the USGS; cool map of seven different geological layers that are exposed in KY. Kentucky has some very neat fossils, and this map could be used as a general guide to the geological period you're looking at as you find fossils along road cuts, on the shores of lakes, or in just about any rocky place in the state.)
The Dawn of Life Animal Exhibit
Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species (complete text)
Darwin-Wallace 1858 paper on Evolution
Ecology:
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Ecology, Biodiversity and the Environment
Spatial Ecosystem Modeling: Robert Costanza et al. Ecological economic theory and practice; ecological modeling at different scales, up through landscape ecology.
Some results of Ecosystem Simulations
Land Use History of North America (effects of land use)
Local Biology Resources:
WKU Biology Departmental Information
Professional Journals and Organizations:
BIO-JOURNALS / bionet.journals.contents Table of Contents Archive (one-stop shopping)
The American Institute of Biological Sciences
Sites for teachers (therefore learners) of Biology at different levels:
funschool.com - Free Interactive, educational...
Association of College and University Biology...
SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education Reso...
BioEd: Biology Education Resources
Teaching of the Biological Sciences: BIOL 317...
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Last update: Saturday, September 05, 1998 at 5:20 p.m.