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Professor Tony Griffiths on "Learning Genetics"
Stuck on the Web, Learning Genetics on the WWW, by Rosie Redfield, Tony Griffiths and Jolie Mayer-Smith
Genetic Drift This online simulation illustrates how allele frequencies change over time as a result of genetic drift in small populations.
Virtual FlyLab
MICRO MICRO is a population genetics simulation programme for Windows 95/98. This page also contains some links to online simulations of genetic drift and gene flow.

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Cornell Math & Science Gateway vast spectrum of sciences covered.
Designer Genes This site was designed by high school students from around the world to teach other students about genetics. It has a biology quiz and a lot of information for students on genetics and gene technologies.
Genetics Education Center This page is a broad resource for the learning and teaching of genetics. Primarily focussed on educators.
Genetic Diseases related to pre and postnatal
Human Genome Project Full of information, and brought to you by the Human Genome Project Consortium
Natural History of Genes
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man The ultimate human database
Virtual Library - Genetics Information on a huge variety of organsims, straight for the genome progect centres
Digital Biology Resources A compendium of digital biology resources for educators.
Association for Science Education A British Site for teachers of Biology. It lists many links covering all aspects of Biology.
DNA from the Beginning This site contains animations, text, videos and other interactive materials covering more than 30 topics on classical genetics, molecular biology and organization of the genetic material.


Virtual Genetics From the University of Cincinnati, this site contains mitotis and meiosis pages, virtual punnet squares and experiments with peas.
Virtual Fly Labs This page contains a "virtual application" that allows one to simulate the genetics of several Drosophila melanogaster mutations and to do Chi Square analyses on them.
Morgan: A Genetics Tutorial The Morgan Homepage is a multimedia D.N.A. tutorial that covers the basic principles of genetics, suitable for an advanced high school class.
Mendelian Genetics This is an introduction to crosses in Mendelian genetics.
Sex Determination/ Linkage This is an eTextbook chapter on sex determination and linkage.
General Genetics This is a general genetics page, with some lesson plans and class activities exploring genetics: crosses and other elementary things.
Natural History of Genes This site provides teachers with genetic science activities and hands-on experiments that bring disease genetics, conservation genetics, forensics and DNA into the real world for students.
West Virginia Ruralnet Project This lesson plan enables students to apply Mendel's principle of dominance and recessiveness to show that human off-spring inherit genetic mechanisms similar to those Mendel described in pea plants. Students gather information about their fellow students and share data. Mendel's concepts and lab report formats are available through hyper-text links. This is an interactive site.
Biology Labs This provides teacher resources for biology labs in genetics and related fields.
MendelWeb A resource page for teachers and students in Mendelian genetics.

Cell Cycle This page is an online tutorial about DNA structure, mitosis and the cell cycle.
DNA Replication This contains images illustrating the replication of DNA.
Molecular Biology A site dedicted to teaching molecular biology.
Structure of Nucleic Acids This site is a lecture aid for use in the classroom. Provides interactive 3-dimensional images of DNA and its components.

Cells Alive cell biology
Cell Biology This is a cell biology site that includes interactive lessons on mitosis, meiosis and the the progession of the cell cycle.
Cell Biology This is a hypertext cell biology textbook, located at MIT.

DNA Files This site has multimedia based information on many of the practical applications of modern molecular biological techniques.

Developmental Biology Cinema A selection of key developmental biology quicktime videos to download

Mitosis This is an interactive lesson on mitosis. Uses Shockwave software. Includes an animation and an actual movie of a plant undergoing mitosis.
Phases of Mitosis This page includes information about the phases of mitosis as well as images of each phase.

DNA processes This site has animated tutorial on transcription and translation; it requires the shockwave plug-in.
Transcription Graphic illustrating the process of transcription.
Transcription (ii) Virtual Textbook on the transcription of DNA.
Translation Virtual Textbook on the translation of DNA.
Making Proteins This contains an interactive lesson on how proteins are made.

PCR (i) This is an animated tutorial on PCR; requires the Shockwave plug-in to run.
PCR (ii) This is an animated tutorial on PCR, which requires no additional plug-ins.

Human Genetic Disease A web tutorial on human genetic disease. It has a primary focus on rare genetic disease in children. The site is organised like a textbook, with interactive lessons on each aspect of human genetic mutation, its detection, and treatment.
Hunting Genes This site describes the 'hunting' of human disease genes involved in Cystic Fibrosis.

DNA Learning Center news and loads of information
Access Excellence news and views by the national (US) health museum
Blazing A Genetic Trail news reports by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Discovery Channel Online search for something you saw on television
Exploratorium Excellent scientific stories via internet multimedia
MAD Scientist Network A fun way of looking at science by scientists
Oz-TeacherNet practical and helpful information for teaching science in Australia
New Scientist The Magazine!
Nova - Science in the News up-to-date science news
Scientific American

Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science Thorough explanations for teaching these topics
Theory of Evolution Evolution, as well as phylogeny and systematics, are thoroughly discussed in a series of essays from the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology.
Program on Evolution Woodrow Wilson National Leadership Program in Biology - 1995 program on Evolution.
Journey into Phylogenetic Systematics This site provides an introduction to Cladistics, the reconstruction of evolutionary histories.
Environment Australia Useful directory for resources on the Australian environment, its ecology and evolution.
BBC Education evolution This site includes online texts, software, interactive and multimedia sections.
Bacteria ID lab This interactive lab from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute allows one to DNA sequence and identify different bacteria. Requires Shockwave plug-in.
Tree of Life A multi-authored, distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity, especially phylogenetic trees.
Australian Paleoanthropology This site details Australian and Asian fossils and sites significant in human evolution.
3D skull models This site features three dimensional manipulable models of human and primate skulls, useful for illustrating the progress of evolution. Requires Shockwave.
Teaching about Evolution Teaching about evolution and the nature of science is a National Academy of Science publication designed to aid teachers in teaching evolution and the nature of science.
High School Human Genome Project This page has been set up for teachers interested in sequencing techniques.
Evolution Resources An extensive page of teacher resources for evolution and ecology, including software and lab exercises.
Human Evolution Education Network The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) sponsors the Human Evolution Education Network (HEEN) to bring together K-12 science teachers and scientists whose expertise is human evolution.
The HEEN webpage lists publications of our own project, and other resources for evolution and biology education, online and in "the real world".

Charles Darwin The C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana been formed carefully to reflect Darwin's writings and interests and to place them in the context of the work of his immediate predecessors.
Genescope Software This software provider for teachers and students has facilities to explore population genetics and 'number crunch' with real data.
Population Genetics This site provides a general intro, with some images.
MICRO MICRO is a population genetics simulation programme for Windows 95/98. This page also contains some links to online simulations of genetic drift and gene flow.
Founder Effect and Speciation This contains an online lecture about the role of the founder effect in speciation; the parent site contains a great deal of further information about population genetics.
Heterozygote Advantage An illustration of the phenomenon of heterozygote advantage.
Multi Drug Resistance This links to a Scientific American article on multi drug resistance, golden staph and vancomycin.
Population Biology This page contains Java simulations useful for teaching principles of population genetics and population ecology in various courses.
Founder Effect A lesson plan on the founder effect, illustrated with Mexican populations.
Equilibrium Activities and lesson plans for teaching about equilibrium in population genetics.
Sickle Cell and Malaria This site contains exercises and worksheets for teachers and students, relating to sickle cell anemia, malaria and heterozygotic advantage.
Sickle Cell and Malaria This site containts a links resource for sickle cell, malaria and heterozygote advantage. Based around a class programme studying these issues.

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