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Ms. DR’s AP Biology Links Page

new.hippocampus.org
click on BIOLOGY on the homepage
then click on TEXTBOOK Correlations at the top
find and click on Biology (7e) Campbell, Reece Pearson
then click on the topic you want to review and a video should appear on the right

Quizlet.com: Flashcards for just about every topic, and you can make more of your own.

Biology Junction Website: Chapter by Chapter Reading Guide - A great compliment to the textbook!

The Biology Corner: lots of review materials, labs, links, and background at all levels of bio curriculum - something for everyone!

On-line Tutorials on just about EVERYTHING! Scroll down to Biology and choose a topic.

Biology Review Games Website

TED Talks:

Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk"

The Story of Stuff: A Short Animation of Environmental Impact of materials Cradel to Grave

Intra-cellular molecular biology animation

Download video and audio presentations of MIT Biology class lectures

Hippy Dippy Transcription-Translation dance

Cell Rap from CHALK: The Musical

AP Review Assignments for Thematic Review and Lab Review

Excellent link for thematic review – a key to success on the open-response portion of the AP exam (and just a darn good way to integrate all the cool stuff you’ve learned this year!)

The Biology Place is a useful website for looking through virtual labs that are similar to the "wet" lab investigations we actually do in class andchecking your understanding with lab quizzes. There are also a variety of animations and activities that present much of the course material in a different format.

General Biology review website from the NIH.

Citations are a key part of science writing. The NNHS Library Website has awesome resources to help you learn how to properly cite the resources you use for your lab reports and research papers. Plagiarism is a serious offense, and with some concerted practice you can learn to avoid it. The website also has links to the on-line periodical databases to which you, as an NNHS student, has free access.

NOTE: Just for fun, check out The Naked Scientist radio program from the BBC. This fast-paced science show is both entertaining and informative for regular folks as well as science geeks. You can stream the show or download programs as MP3’s. Enjoy!

If you're interested in finding out what's new in the world of oceans, marine science, policy, and marie biology (or you just want to see some cool photos of organisms that live in the sea) check out SeaWeb.org, a non-profit on-line communications organization dedicated to creating a culture of ocean conservation.

• Calculate your Ecological Footprint at http://www.myfootprint.org/

• Watch minimalist animations of ecological succession at the following links: thelifewire/content/chp55/55020.html
restoringearth

• Read China’s One Child Policy by U.S. Committee for Refugees, 9/99

• Read The Human Population Grows Up by Joel E. Cohen

• Read The Oil We Eat by Richard Manning

• Read What’s Eating America by Michael Pollan

• Read Power Steer by Michael Pollan

• Global Climate Change articles:

Making Every Drop Count by Peter H. Gleick

Is Global Warming Harmful to Health? By Paul R. Epstein

The Climate of Man-I by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Climate of Man-II by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Climate of Man-III by Elizabeth Kolbert

• Check out NASA's JPL Global Climate Change website

• Link to E.O. Wilson’s powerpoint address to the Senate about preserving biodiversity.

• Biologist and writer E.O. Wilson speaks on NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday (9/8/06) about his new book, "The Creation." Wilson's appeal to preserving biodiversity

• Read Uprooting the Tree of Life by W. Ford. Dolittle

• Read The Y Files about research on the Y chromosome done by the laboratory of David Page at the Whitehead Institute.

• Read A Brief Guide to DNA Seuqencing by John Timmer.

• Read Recipes for Life: How Genes Evolve by Michael Le Page

• If you can’t access the Campbell website, or are having trouble with your CD-Rom, or just want some more support materials, check out The Biology Place.

• Read Lindquist Prion article from Paradigm Magazine 2005

• Read Lindquist article form Nature Genetics 2005

• Contribute to the world body of protein folding data. Log on to Folding at Home, download the free program and raw data, and watch protein folding “unfold!”

Cellular Respiration animations: This one has no text, but covers everything you need to know. Can you describe exactly what's happening? This one is exclusively about electron transport.

This is a link to a song called Glucose from a site that has other science songs, including songs for each part of cellular respiration. Click through for the AP version of Sesame Street® style learning-through-song methodology.

Here’s a link to an animation about ATP synthase and the production of ATP across the mitochondrial membrane.

16-second video about bacterial growth.

Here's a site with a good tutorial about meiosis

Here are a few websites with DNA replication animations. There are lots of others. If you find a good one, tell Ms. DR so the link can be added to the website. Step by step tutorial with review Q's.: Well illustrated but not the whole story; Clear descriptions done with silly cartoon figures (I'd start with thisi one); great review with no captions (Can you talk your way through this? Good self-test!).

There are lots of websites out there with animations of transcription. Here are a couple of each that load easily and get the job done. This one is a clear and simple view of the polymerization of the complimentary mRNA strand. Watch it first, then move on to the next ones for more sophisticated details. This one includes lots of details about the initialtion and transcription complexes. This one has a comparison of transcription in eukaryotes and prokaryotes.

There are also a ton of sites showing translation. This one wins for best soundtrack. This one has that rather dull instructional video voiceover, but does an excellent job of explaining what goes on inside the ribosome. Note that though these links are to YouTube uploads, the original videos came from legitimate educational sites. The YouTube versions load better.

Here’s a link to a DNA restriction fragment gel electrophoresis simulation. Thanks to Ethan Tseng and Steven Long for bringing it to my attention!

Sherrie Deng directed me to this site for DNA technology animations. Click on the various animations listed as "quizzes" in the box to the left of the page.

The very best EVOLUTION WEBSITE ever...

This is a great Evolution website by Matt Ridley, the author of Genome, The Red Queen, and other books some of you have read.

PBSNOVA Evolution videos.

A cute YouTube video about evolution : An adaptation of Tik Tok based on Natural Selection and evolutionary biology

Link to David Page’s video about the Y chromosome and its ability to maintain its integrity. If you were at the lecture, you can see the parts of his presentation that he didn’t present at that particular talk.

Animation of the biochemistry and physiology of neuromuscular junctions from Campbell and elsewhere; elsewhere.

Animated site about the physiology of various recreational drugs.