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General Biology	Anatomy & Physiology	Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
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General Biology:

Tutorials on metric conversions, scientific notation, chemistry and much, much more - from Southwest Wisconsin Technical College

Biology Hypertextbook

Online biology text book from MIT

Online Biology Book

A digitized biology textbook from Estrella Mountain Comm. Coll.

The Biology Project

Provides a helpful resource for many biology topics; also

includes basic chemistry concepts such as atomic structure,

bonding, pH, organic compounds

Kimball's Biology Pages

Online version of John W. Kimball's text, Biology

Beginner's Guide to Molecular Biology

Includes cell structure and components, mitosis and cell division,

DNA structure/function, protein synthesis

DNA Replication

Mitosis tutorial

An interactive tutorial on mitosis and cell division from San

Diego State University

Mitosis/Meiosis Interactive Tutorial: From Biology in Motion

Create a Graph: A user-friendly website that enables you to easily construct a graph.

A great animation showing hydrolysis and condensation reactions

Becoming Human: A wonderful site about evolution.

Tutorials on many topics: Mitosis/meiosis, gene expression, biochemistry, DNA replication, genetics, evolution and more

This website helps you locate any muscle you can think of!

Genetics problems and interactive websites:

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/biosites.html

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/mendelian_genetics/mendelian_genetics.html

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/human_genetics/human_genetics.html

http://www.k-state.edu/biology/pob/genetics/intro.htm

Anatomy & Physiology

Histology: The study of tissues

An online, interactive histology quiz from the University of

California, Davis

Histology Project

Histology tutorial

Anatomy & Physiology Tutorials: tutorials on major systems, virtual cat and pig dissections, animations, and much, much more!

http://www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff/jensen/1135/webanatomy/default.htm U. of MN has a great interactive anatomy tool on the web. There are interactive quizzes, images, histology slides, and a bunch of other stuff there, arranged by organ system.

U of M Anatomy & Physiology: Great diagrams, self-quizzes on major body systems

Heart Sounds: Hear what a normal heart sounds like; also various examples of abnormal heart sounds such as murmurs.

Urinalysis site: http://www.irvingcrowley.com/cls/urin.htm

The visible human project: Human cross sectional anatomy

This is a cool site on cardiovascular anatomy & physiology: http://www.invisionguide.com/heart/index.html

Here are a bunch of great animations and other stuff (including membrane potentials and action potentials)

Microbiology and Infectious Disease:

Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology; University of Wiscosin-Madison

http://textbookofbacteriology.net/

Disease Regulation

Centers for Disease Control site on controlling emerging

diseases

After a Hurricane: Infectious Disease

FluStar: System for Tracking and Reporting Flu

A good site about influenza

Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Review article

Great website from the University of New Mexico Medical School

A government funded bioterrorism simulation

The Big Picture Book of Viruses

An excellent resource on virus information

A great general microbiology web site: From the Community College of Baltimore County in Maryland

A great virus web site showing life cycle information including animations:

Normal flora of humans

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Anthrax Websites

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/anthrax_g.htm http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4936a1.htm http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/pages/agents/agentanthrax.html

Fun Sites:

Junk Science: "All the Junk That's Fit to Debunk"

A site that uncovers the fallacies in reported "scientific" studies

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