Cells and Heredity

Interested in cells and genetics? Try these sites:

Cell Structure and Function

View this Powerpoint to help you review your organelles

Cell Inspector from Harcourt School Publishers allows you to match up the parts of plant and animal cells

Thames Valley School District in Canada has a wonderful animated site that describes a cell's organelles

Use the Incredible Megacell game to review the parts of the cell.

Visit the Virtual Cell Web Page and be sure to take The Virtual Cell Tour

Explore Inside a Cell from the Genetic Science Learning Center (This site may be difficult to understand.)

Learn all about plant and animals cells from Cells Alive! (This site may also be difficult to understand.)

Watch bacteria and cancer cells grow in real time.

Microscopy

Use this microscopy site from Florida State University (FSU) to magnify a microprocessor chip, onion root mitosis and a superconducting wire

How does a scanning electron microscope work? Find out at this site from the Museum of Science.

This site from FSU allows you to adjust the focus, contrast, brightness and magnification of a virtual scanning electron microscope to view carpet beetles, diatoms, dust mites, fruit flies and ragweed pollen

Dennis Kunkel Microscopy Inc. offers a wonderful JavaScript Scanning Electron Microscopy simulation. Be sure to start with the student site before graduating to expert status

Here's another example of a virtual microscope from Biomedical Imaging Group. Be sure to click "Launch Demo" in the upper right hand corner.

Use the Image Library Search to locate hundreds of spectacular pictures from Dennis Kunkel Electron Microscopy Inc.

The Biology Corner has an interactive quiz to help identify the parts of a microscope

Osmosis, Diffusion and Active Transport

View an animation of osmosis from the Thames Valley school district

These animations from Wiley are meant for college students but everyone can learn something from them

View how salt affects osmosis courtesy of Dr. Giannini from St. Olaf's College

Investigate "How Osmosis Works" from McGraw Hill

Investigate "How Diffusion Works" from McGraw Hill

Investigate "How Facilitated Diffusion Works" from McGraw Hill

Photosynthesis and Respiration

Sambal's Science Web has a great explanation of photosynthesis!

Sambal's Science Web also has a great explanation of cellular respiration!

DNA

DNA: The Instruction Manual for All Life

Take a Tour of the Basics at the Genetic Science Learning Center

Build a DNA molecule at the Genetic Science Learning Center

Now, you can isolate DNA from any living thing! Once you've finished the virtual lab, try your hand at a real extraction

Journey into DNA with this animated sequence from WGBH

DNA Workshop: You Try It

Genetics

Click on Chapter 1 - Mendel's Discoveries at Harcourt School Publishers to learn about Gregor Mendel's experiments.

Conduct experiments just like Gregor Mendel's at Pea Soup

Watch this short video tutorial on Punnett squares from zeroBio

If you use Internet Explorer, practice your Punnett squares at zeroBio

Use this site from the Vital Lab at Ohio University to practice your Punnett Squares

This site, dealing with deafness in dogs, provides additional Punnett square practice

Investigate heredity at this interactive site on mouse genetics.

Help parents find their children at Chromosome Kindergarten

Here's another problem from the folks who brought you Chromosome Kindergarten

The Education Development Center, Inc. has created interactive activites covering many topics in genetics. In particular, be sure to check out Mendel's Peas, Dragons and Punnett Squares!

The Mutant Fruit Fly Page (When genetics goes wrong)

Here's one more test for color blindness

Biotechnology

Engineer your own corn crop at Harvest of Fear

Check out the lastest in bioengineered foods at Guess What's Coming for Dinner?

What is the Human Genome Project? Click here to find out

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