Burt's Science Links

• Periodic Table Form
• Microscope Links
• Genetics
• DNA links

• Cell Links

• Mitosis Links

• Osmosis and Diffusion Links

PERIODIC TABLE - Form

Download by clicking here (Word Document, 28k)

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MICROSCOPE LINKS

This site has a tutorial that can be used to review important steps for using the microscope. There is also a virtual microscope that can be manipulated. Their microscopes have binocular eyepieces, mechanical stages and rheostats missing from ours, but otherwise work the same way.

http://www.udel.edu/scope

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GENETICS LINKS

This site has excellent tutorials and self quizzes that cover all the Mendelian inheritance and exceptions studied in class and others besides.  Good for review and extension.

http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/default.htm

Some genetics problems with tutorials if you answer incorrectly:

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

A very clear site that succinctly covers much of what was studied in class and extends it significantly.  A good place if you want to extend beyond what was done in class:

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mcclean/plsc431/mendel/

Another site that could be used for review and/or extension.  This site presents the information in a historical manner relating everything to Mendel and his work.  Good if you learn better in the context of a narrative story.

http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/SDMG/SD.MG.HP.html

A site with a simple self quiz about basic genetics and vocabulary:

http://biology.about.com/library/weekly/aa012904a.htm

This site has links to other sites organized by vocabulary and topics.  You can, for example go to a site about multiple alleles, or 3 different sites about human eye color.

http://www.kensbiorefs.com/MendelGen.html#anchor94663

This site includes a very nice animation of meiosis.  The text goes beyond the details covered in class, but the animation is very clear.

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/meiosis/main.html

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DNA 2004

DNA Tutorial, Structure and Function

http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/dna/index.htm

An excellent site with a very complete discussion of DNA structure and function.  It goes into much more detail about structure and replication than we did in class. 

Nucleic acids and Heredity is a nice summary of the central dogma. 

Structure and Function of RNA gives a nice synopsis of RNA and some of the contrasts with DNA.

RNA Synthesis: Transcription gives an excellent discussion of the how and why of transcription and links to an excellent transcription animation.

There is a very clear explanation of the how and why of translation and some simple translation graphics.  The discussion of elongation and termination are rather detailed, but the translation animation, linked to the Termination page, is very clear.

Practice problem 3 is worth doing.  Something like it will appear on the test.

Check Your Knowledge has some details that we did not include, but much of it parallels what we studied in class.

Lew-Port's Biology Place - Protein Synthesis

http://www.lewport.wnyric.org/jwanamaker/animations/
Protein%20Synthesis%20-%20long.html

This is a very simple animation of transcription and translation.  It covers the basic processes without using all the vocabulary you have learned

Transcription Animation

http://www-class.unl.edu/biochem/gp2/m_biology/animation/gene/gene_a2.html

A clear, detailed animation of transcription, with text.

Transcription Animation

http://www-class.unl.edu/biochem/gp2/m_biology/animation/gene/gene_a3.html

A nice, fairly simple animation of translation, with text.

BioStudio Protein Synthesis Animation

http://www.biostudio.com/demo_freeman_protein_synthesis.htm

A simple, narrated translation animation

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CELL LINKS

Cellular Biology:  This site gives a simple review of the structure and function of most of the organelles we discussed in class.  In addition it provides general information about types of cells and cell reproduction.

Cells Alive: This site has interactive cell diagrams with descriptions of cell organelle functions and links to more complete descriptions.  Both plant and animal cells are featured.  Mitosis can be found as well as the cell cycle

Cellupedia:  This interactive site provides much more detail about the cell parts we covered in class and other cell processes as well. The guide portion of this site is most useful for our purposes.


Webcytology:  This comprehensive, interactive site provides a great deal of information about cells.  It could be used for review or to go well beyond what was covered in class. Go to the guide in the referencec section.

Molecular Expressions: This excellent site has an interactive animation of mitosis with in-depth text descriptions, going beyond what we covered in class.  Exploring the site will bring you to similar discussions of animal and plant cells and their organelles . Good review for most of this unit.

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MITOSIS LINKS

This site is from the Biology Project at University of Arizona, an excellent biology resource.  You can find quite a bit of background information about DNA, how it is packed into chromosomes, the Cell Cycle, and mitosis.  The mitosis animation is the same one used in at the previous site.  The text page shows the animation as still pictures with a very good description of each stage.  Remember that for our purposes Prometaphase is part of Prophase.  There is a self quiz you can use t test yourself on your understanding. Exploring the site, you can find college level information about a variety of cell parts and the history of their discover.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cell_cycle/main.html

This site has a very nice animation of mitosis with clear descriptive text downloadable in a variety of formats.  The quick-time movies have the advantage of being able to control the speed, the animated GIF runs rather quickly.
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/multimedia/mitosis/navigator.html

If you are interested in the other type od cell division, meiosis, this PBS site compares and contrasts the two.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/divide.html#

This site has another animation of mitosis with text.  It shows the centrioles and spindle more clearly than some of the others
http://tidepool.st.usm.edu/crswr/mitosismov.html

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OSMOSIS AND DIFFUSION

This is the site used in class.  Much of the text deals with quantifying, measuring, osmosis. If you can read past the more advanced discussions, you can get a wonderful explanation of what happens and why.  The interactive animations alone can teach you much.
http://physioweb.med.uvm.edu/diffusion/

A very simple description of the topic with an animation of diffusion
http://www.biosci.ohiou.edu/introbioslab/Bios170/170_3/170_3.htm