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Biology

A guide for students enrolled in biology courses.

Featured Websites:

The Biology Project
Problem sets and tutorials
Genetics Alive!
Genes and Genomes, Genetics in Action, Virtual Genetics Lab
Fundamentals of Biology - MIT Open
focuses on the basic principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and recombinant DNA.
Explainers and introductions - Royal Society
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Key Topics in Ecology - British Ecological Society
Reading lists for studying the key topics in ecology
Rescued and Archived Datasets - CIEE
The CIEE is Canada’s national synthesis center for ecology and evolution.
Britannica Encyclopedia: Plant Organism
Articles, Media, and more
Animal Form and Function
Britannica Encyclopedia: Ecology
Articles and Media

Featured Videos:

2-Minute neuroscience videos
Learn the basics of neuroscience in short, easy-to-understand clips.
Biology with the Amoeba Sisters
We are two sisters on a mission to demystify science with humor and relevance by creating free videos, GIFs, handouts, resources, and comics.
Professor Dave Explains Biological Sciences
My videos have just enough detail for high school and undergraduate students, but are visually engaging and general enough for the common viewer that just wants to learn a few things.

HHMI BioInteractive Videos
From seeing the first microbes to uncovering fossil evidence of human evolution, make science exciting for your students through these stories of discovery!

Featured Databases:

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications
ACS Publications offers a comprehensive collection of high-quality eBooks, articles, and other content that advances the practice of the chemical and related sciences.
Applied Science & Technology Source
Offers a diverse array of full-text and indexed content covering the full spectrum of the applied sciences and computing disciplines — from acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear engineering.
Includes 3,026 active indexed and abstracted journals.
2,774 of them are peer-reviewed.
BioMed Central
A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine.
Environment Complete
Journals and books covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, public policy, sustainability and other related subjects. Environmental thesaurus included.

Featured Journals:

Ecology
Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Ecological Society of America
Ecology and evolution
Published by: Wiley UK
Evolution Journal
Published by: Society for the Study of Evolution
Nature
Nature Research is part of Springer Nature.