Author Archives: Stephen
Meiosis
Learn.Genetics at Utah is an excellent resource for this topic, and all animations are easy enough to save.
Meiosis:
Good animation from Biostudio
Simple animation from Lewison-Porter Central School District
Good animation from Learn.Genetics
Non-disjunction:
Trisomy from Learn.Genetics (their page on Down Syndrome is here)
Excellent animation of meisosis I and meiosis II from BioStudio
Karyotyping:
Animation and have-a-go from Learn.Genetics
Amniocentesis:
Simple animation from MedIndia
Video from GoogleVideo
Here’s a patient having an amnio:
Chorionic Villus Sampling:
Video clip from Discovery Human Body Atlas
Get Body Smart
This site has some interesting human anatomy and physiology tutorials and animations, though it’s impossible to save them.
You’ll need a decent internet connection to run them.
The Transport System
These links are for the Further Human Physiology unit.
Here’s the powerpoint:
Download here: transport-system.ppt
And here’s the Click4Biology link
Medmovie.com has a large collection of animations which are great for this unit. We can’t link to them directly, but it’s worth having a look around.
The Cardiac Cycle:
Hyper Heart animation and graphs from the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Biointeractive from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Control of the Heart Beat:
A few good links to try from Washburn Rural High School
And don’t forget the Medmovie resource…
Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease:
Medmovie has good animations for atherosclerosis, heart attacks and heart bypass surgery. There aren’t many that are better…
Production of Tissue Fluid and Lymph:
Hydrostatic and osmotic pressure (fluid exchange) from McGraw Hill
Capillary exchange from coolschool.ca (they have other good resources, too)
Bonus features:
For a good (tricky) prac, here’s a virtual EKG package from skillstat.com
And here’s a decent heart structure tutorial from Gateway Community College
Medmovie.com – brilliant medical animations
Medmovie is a commercial website, though they have many animations available in their media library samples and interactives, including heart beats, heart attacks, atherosclerosis and more (I can’t link directly to each one – you have to go to the main page first)
They look fantastic – some are .swf and others are .mov, though all the samples can be saved easily in Firefox.
Chromosomes, Genes, Alleles and Mutations
Chromosomes, Genes and Alleles:
Here’s a YouTube clip:
Let’s start with a tour of the basics from Learn.Genetics at Utah.
DNA coiling on histone proteins from biostudio.com
A description of chromosomes from Dexter Pratt
Zooming in to Chromosome 11 (a bit too advanced) from the DNA Learning Centre’s Gene Almanac
Transcription Java game from thinkquest.org
Mutations:
How do mutations occur? from the DNAi at the Dolan DNA Learning Centre
Evolution of Sickle Cell: Resistance to Malaria
Sickle Cell Anemia: A Mutation Story from the excellent Evolution Library.
Human Genome Project
First stop, the official website from the National Institute of Health
Here’s a great interactive from DNAi at the Dolan DNA Learning Centre
Now for some videos:
Mickey-Mouse introduction, bit of review on transcription and translation:….
If you have a spare hour (I don’t), here’s Charlie Rose interviewing Dr. J. Craig Venter:
Here’s James Watson (famous for co-discovering the structure of DNA and the first person to receive their own personal genome) chatting with NewScientist:
And don’t forget Learn.Genetics excellent site.
3D Science News – goggles at the ready!
Here’s an interesting Science news blog – 3DScienceNews.com
Video articles can be downloaded and viewed as either stereroscopic videos (needs some changi hardware, apparently), or as a simple 3D video and you can use red/blue glasses.
They even have a 3D interview with Dawkins (Before he gatecrashed a screening of Expelled, I think).
i-Biology 
