Biology

  • BioEd Online
    BioEd Online was produced by Baylor’s Center for Educational Outreach, and provides science teachers and students with a wide array of free instructional resources, such as slide sets, streaming video presentations, and laboratory activities. The site assists biology teachers and students by offering accurate, current information, reinforced by lessons and web-based materials that address important and timely issues like nutrition and obesity, biodiversity, and mad cow disease.
  • Biological Animations
    John L. Giannini, Biology Department staff member at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, has compiled a collection of short animations of biological processes.
  • The Biology Project – University of Arizona
    An online interactive resource for learning biology.
  • The Biology Project – University of Arizona: Cell Biology – Online Onion Root Tips
    Online learning project for cell cycle and principles of mitosis.
  • Canadian Cancer Society
    Reliable cancer information collected by the Canadian Cancer Society.
  • Cells Alive!
    One of the best sites available for research involving cells.
  • Food Additives Guide
    This guide includes detailed lists of common additives, their uses and possible side effects. It also has links to other food additive sites.
  • Health Canada’s Web Site
    Our federal government’s site to promote healthy living for Canadians.
  • Healthfinder – Your Guide To Reliable Health Information
    Developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this site has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.
  • Human Anatomy Online
    An interactive program containing more than one hundred illustrations of the human body with animations and descriptive links. Animations show how you chew food, how your eyes operate, and how your nerves and muscles are connected, while the image index diagrams show things like the cross section of a bone and the inside of a skull.
  • The IB Biology Homepage
    An Open Door website dedicated to assist you in your study of IB biology.
  • Medpedia
    Medpedia is a new free online resource utilizing the Wiki format to make health and medical information available. Editors of articles must have MDs or PhDs in a biomedical science.
  • Mendel Web
    A resource for students and teachers interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science.
  • On-Line Biology Book
    This site features text and illustrations for the study of biology.
  • Science Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorial Links
    Science resources from Lone Star College-North Harris in Houston, Texas.
  • University of Alberta – Department of Biological Sciences
    The Department of Biology’s instructional media page provides educational material for biology courses.

Biology Dictionaries

  • Online Biology Dictionary
    This online dictionary of approximately 1800 terms uses British spelling. Explanations are brief. The interface is clear, uncluttered, and easy to use.
  • Biotech Life Science Dictionary
    This award-winning site comes from the Indiana Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Indiana University. Search instructions are included.