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General Genetics

Cornell Math & Science Gateway Vast spectrum of sciences covered.

Designer Genes This site was designed by high school students from around the world to teach other students about genetics. It has a biology quiz and a lot of information for students on genetics and gene technologies.


Genetics Education Centre This page is a broad resource for the learning and teaching of genetics. Primarily focussed on educators.

Genetic Diseases Related to pre and postnatal

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man The ultimate human database

Virtual Library Genetics Information on a huge variety of organsims, straight for the genome progect centres

Human Genome Project Full of information, and brought to you by the Human Genome Project Consortium

Digital Biology Resources A compendium of digital biology resources for educators.

Association for Science Education A British Site for teachers of Biology. It lists many links covering all aspects of Biology.

DNA from the Beginning This site contains animations, text, videos and other interactive materials covering more than 30 topics on classical genetics, molecular biology and organization of the genetic material.

 

 


Articles

Professor Tony Griffiths on "Learning Genetics"

Stuck on the Web, Learning Genetics on the WWW, by Rosie Redfield, Tony Griffiths and Jolie Mayer-Smith


Software

Virtual FlyLab

MICRO is a population genetics simulation programme for Windows 95/98. This page also contains some links to online simulations of genetic drift and gene flow.

 

 

General- DNA

Cell Cycle This page is an online tutorial about DNA structure, mitosis and the cell cycle

DNA Replication This contains images illustrating the replication of DNA.

Molecular Biology A site dedicted to teaching molecular biology.

Structure of Nucleic Acids This site is a lecture aid for use in the classroom. Provides interactive 3-dimensional images of DNA and its components.

 
General Biological
American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) ATCC is a global nonprofit bioresource center that provides biological products, technical services, and educational programs to private industry, government, and academic organizations around the world.

Australian Academy of Science (ASS) The site is home to the ASS. The Academy's goal is to promote science through a range of activities.

Australian Science Archives Project (ASAPWeb) To improve access to Australia's scientific, technological and medical heritage by helping to preserve records and artifacts and communicating the existence of this heritage to a wide audience

Nobel Foundation WWW server This is the official online source where you first learn the names of the new Nobel Prize Winners in October each year.


 
News, Journals and General Science
DNA Learning Center News and loads of information

Access Excellence News and views by the national (US) health museum

Discovery Channel Online search for something you saw on television.

Exploratorium Excellent scientific stories via internet multimedia

MAD Scientist Network A fun way of looking at science by scientists

New Scientist The Magazine!

Nova - Science in the News up-to-date science news

Scientific American

Cell journals

Current Science journals

Development

EMBO Journal

Genes and Development

Genetics

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Journal of Experimental Biology

Journal of Molecular Biology

Journal of the National Cancer Institute


Nature

New Scientist

Nucleic Acids Research

PNAS

Science

   
     
     
Mendelian Genetics

Virtual Fly Labs This page contains a "virtual application" that allows one to simulate the genetics of several Drosophila melanogaster mutations and to do Chi Square analyses on them.

Morgan: A Genetics Tutorial The Morgan Homepage is a multimedia D.N.A. tutorial that covers the basic principles of genetics, suitable for an advanced high school class.

Natural History of Genes This site provides teachers with genetic science activities and hands-on experiments that bring disease genetics, conservation genetics, forensics and DNA into the real world for students.

Biology Labs This provides teacher resources for biology labs in genetics and related fields.

   
Evolution
Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science Thorough explanations for teaching these topics

Theory of Evolution Evolution, as well as phylogeny and systematics, are thoroughly discussed in a series of essays from the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology.

Journey into Phylogenetic Systematics This site provides an introduction to Cladistics, the reconstruction of evolutionary histories.

BBC Education evolution This site includes online texts, software, interactive and multimedia sections.

Tree of Life A multi-authored, distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity, especially phylogenetic trees.

Australian Paleoanthropology This site details Australian and Asian fossils and sites significant in human evolution.

Teaching about Evolution Teaching about evolution and the nature of science is a National Academy of Science publication designed to aid teachers in teaching evolution and the nature of science.

High School Human Genome Project This page has been set up for teachers interested in sequencing techniques.

Human Evolution Education Network The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) sponsors the Human Evolution Education Network (HEEN) to bring together K-12 science teachers and scientists whose expertise is human evolution.

   
Population Genetics
Charles Darwin The C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana been formed carefully to reflect Darwin's writings and interests and to place them in the context of the work of his immediate predecessors.

Genescope Software This software provider for teachers and students has facilities to explore population genetics and 'number crunch' with real data.

Founder Effect and Speciation This contains an online lecture about the role of the founder effect in speciation; the parent site contains a great deal of further information about population genetics.

Heterozygote Advantage An illustration of the phenomenon of heterozygote advantage.

Multi Drug Resistance This links to a Scientific American article on multi drug resistance, golden staph and vancomycin.

Equilibrium Activities and lesson plans for teaching about equilibrium in population genetics.

Sickle Cell and Malaria This site contains exercises and worksheets for teachers and students, relating to sickle cell anemia, malaria and heterozygotic advantage.

Sickle Cell and Malaria This site containts a links resource for sickle cell, malaria and heterozygote advantage. Based around a class programme studying these issues.

   
Developmental Genetics
Developmental Biology Cinema A selection of key developmental biology quicktime videos to download

   
Transcriptions and Translation
Transcription Graphic illustrating the process of transcription.

Making Proteins This contains an interactive lesson on how proteins are made.

   
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR This is an animated tutorial on PCR, which requires no additional plug-ins.

   
Cell Biology

Cells Alive cell biology

Cell Biology This is a cell biology site that includes interactive lessons on mitosis, meiosis and the the progession of the cell cycle.

   
Molecular Biology
DNA Files This site has multimedia based information on many of the practical applications of modern molecular biological techniques.

   
Mitosis
Mitosis This is an interactive lesson on mitosis. Uses Shockwave software. Includes an animation and an actual movie of a plant undergoing mitosis.
   
     
     
Universities

La Trobe University

Macquarie University

Monash University

University of Adelaide

University of Melbourne

University of New South Wales

University of Queensland

University of Sydney

   
Research Institutes

Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR)

Garvan Institute of Medical Research

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Biology Labs This provides teacher resources for biology labs in genetics and related fields.

   
CSIRO

CSIRO- Home

Entomology

Forestry and Forest Product

Marine Research

Moleculre Science

Plant Industry

   
Government Departments

Australian Research Council

Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources

   
Bioinformatics and Tools
BLAST search of S.cerevisiae genome database

S.cerevisiae Genomic Database (SGD)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL WWW Submissions)

National Centre for BioInformatics (NCBI)

NCBI Bank It (GenBank WWW Submissions)

Pedro's Reasearch Tools

Protein Data Bank (PDB)

   

 

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