“Amazing Cells” from Learn.Genetics
Learn.Genetics at Utah have produced another excellent resource for Cell Biology: Amazing Cells
Go over and check out their tour inside the cell, find out how vesicle transport works, learn more about cell signalling, and get into the endosymbiotic theory of cell evolution.
It’s great for the IB Cells topic.
Eukaryotes quick post
Here’s the class presentation for Grade 11 revising for their Quia Quiz:
More links to be added soon – for now, click on the links posted in the presentation.
The Learn.Genetics people at Utah have just released the excellent Amazing Cells resource.
Sumanas – multimedia science resources
Sumanas, inc. has a good selection of high-quality animations and interactives.
Some highlights include their pages on Statistics and some excellent resources in the general biology page.
NOVA Life Science Resources
NOVA from pbs.org (Public Broadcasting Services) has a great library of animations and interactives on their site.
Topics include Evolution, Classification, Genetics, Ecology and Microbiology.
Many of the interactives can be saved using the downloader on Firefox.
Some nice cell division footage
Here is a newscast from NewScientist this week:
More posts on the Cells topic to follow very soon.
Statistical Analysis
Other websources:
Click4Biology has an excellent page for this topic
The Open Door website has some basic stats, as well more in-depth uses of statistics. Particularly useful is their page on errors in Biology.
The Field Studies Council has a good t-test page
Gapminder.org shows the awesome power of statistics. Grrr….
And you can ask your teacher to get the T-test Powerpoint from the OCC.
Using your calculator:
– Using the TI GDC (from Click4Biology)
– Using the Casio pdf download (from keymath.com)
BIS Students:
Here is our Quia Class page on this topic.
Big Bang Rap – The LHC team explain
This is just great -a rap produced by the scientists at the Large Hadron Collider to explain what they do, what dark matter is and how the Big Bang happened. They switched it on today, and the world didn’t end, which is nice. Read more about it here.
Dawkins’ Genius of Darwin update
As expected, episodes of this series have been removed from YouTube.
Episode 1 is still available on GoogleVideo, and the official website is here.
Goblin Shark: oo-er
What’s the hungriest shark in the sea?
This one, ‘cos it keeps gobblin’ and gobblin’ and gobblin’…
Originally posted by the excellent Zooillogix blog. Go on over and have a look.
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