Science links - biology

• Animal Diversity Web is a virtual textbook offering information on the structure and classification of animals, basic concepts of ecology and evolutionary biology, special reports on dozens of animals, and plenty of photographs.
• Biology Online  - Site offers various methods of tracking down information concerning the diverse field of biology to introduce its concepts in layman's terms via an online directory of websites, a dictionary and a range of tutorials.
• BioMEDIA Associates: Learning Programs for Biology is a biological tour that lets students explore the lives of various animals, take detailed tours of certain animals' characteristics, and investigate the natural history of several organisms.
• EPA Student Center - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put together this site as a guide to its resources for students - and the results are impressive. The site even contains information about environmental careers, internships, and scholarships.
• Environmental News Network is a multi-faceted web production that offers timely environmental news, live chats, interactive quizzes, daily feature stories, forums for debate, audio, video and more. These components are aimed at educating users with information from all sides so they can make their own decisions regarding various environmental issues.
• Genetic Science Learning Center - This website aims to help people understand how genetics affects their lives and society. For students, there is information regarding careers in science, genetic disorders, genetics in the news, science fair & research project experiments, online and hands-on activities, group activities, and links to research articles.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioInteractive - this highly interactive medical biology site for advanced science students provides laboratory experiences in bacterial identification, cardiology, neurophysiology, and immunology, plus 25 animations on a variety of topics.
• Human Anatomy Online -  Study the anatomy of the human body.  Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. The site is fun, interactive, and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.
• Life Has A History  - An introduction to the history of life and how it results in the biodiversity of today. During this tour students learn about geologic time, fossils, ancestral relationships, cladograms, variation, natural selection, and extinction. Includes lesson plans for teachers.
• Reading the Human Map  - The North Suburban Library System Human Genome Grant Project was funded by a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Energy and provides links to basic scientific information about the human genome project to social and ethical issues.