Useful online resources for your course will be posted here.

CELL BIOLOGY

• Cell Theory
• BBC: Cells Video
• Inside a Cell
• How big are cells?
• Amazing Cells: Cell Structure
• Eukaryopolis: The Animal Cell (Crash Course)
• Plant Cells (Crash Course)
• Archaea, Bacteria and Protists (Crash Course)
• Virtual Lab: Using the Microscope
• Online Microscope
• Virtual Electron Microscope 
• Cell Transport
• Cell Homeostasis Virtual Lab
• Inside a Cell – visual tour
• Comparing cell types – Prokaryote, animal, and plant cells
• In Da Club: Membranes & Transport (Crash Course)
• Hypertonic, Hypotonic, Isotonic Solutions
• Another look at Hypertonic, Hypotonic and Isotonic Solutions
• Journey into DNA (Tutorial)
• Eukaryotic Cell Cycle (Video)
• Mitosis (Animation)
• Mitosis Mover (interactive)
• Mitosis (simple animation)
• Meiosis (Animation)
• Meiosis Tutorial (Interactive)
• Comparing Mitosis and Meiosis ( animated video)
• Comparing Mitosis and Meiosis (detailed – very useful!)

MICROBIOLOGY

• Typhoid Mary
• How your Immune System Works
• How Vaccines Work
• Why do people get seasonal allergies?
• Conquering Smallpox
• How to Eradicate a Disease
• Plague: The Black Death
• Bacterial Structure & Shapes
• Bacterial Structure (Detailed)
• Antibiotic Resistance
• Quorum Sensing in Bacteria
• Beneficial Bacteria
• Binary Fission
• Bacterial Conjugation
• Your Microflora
• You are Your Microbes (no, really you are)
• A Brie(f) History of Cheese
• Archaea, Bacteria & Protists
• Bacteriophage
• Cell vs Virus
• Viruses: Hijackers!
• Virus Lytic Cycle (Reproduction)
• Viral Life Cycles (Reproduction)
• Budding of Enveloped Viruses
• HIV Life Cycle (Budding Virus)
• The Rise of HIV
• How Pandemics Spread
• Where did Viruses come from?
• Ebola
• Protists & Fungi
• Diversity of Protists
• Watch a Paramecium Feeding !!!
• How do Protozoa Get Around? (Ciliate, Flagellate and Amoeboid motion)
• Amoeboid Motion
• Diatoms
• The Secret Life of Plankton

GENETICS

• Greatest Genetics Discoveries
• DNA: The Book of You
• Crash Course: Heredity
• Mitosis microscopy
• Crash Course: Meiosis
• Meiosis Made Easy
• Mitosis vs Meiosis
• Mendel’s Experiments
• Punnett Squares (tutorial)
• Online Punnett Game!
• Online Punnett Square calculator
• Different Patterns of Heredity
• Another Calculator for Complex Heredity
• Codominance vs Incomplete Dominance
• Secrets of the X Chromosome
• Pedigrees
• Epigenetics

 

MAMMALIAN BODY SYSTEMS

Body Atlas: Breath of Life