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BIOLOGY-RELATED WEBSITES

A SAMPLE OF INTERNET SITES CONTAINING

A WEALTH OF BIOLOGICAL DATA

Ask a Biologist. Available on-line. URL:
http://ls.la.asu.edu/askabiologist/index.html. Accessed
May 20, 2003.
Anyone is welcome to use Ask a Biologist, intended
primarily for an audience of grades K–12, and for
teachers as a resource. Arizona State University faculty
and staff maintain the site. Experiments and reading
materials are also included.

Biointeractive. Available on-line. URL:
http://www.biointeractive.org/. Accessed May 20,
2003.
A site from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that
features virtual labs, animations, Web-based video, and
other interactive features relating to biology.

Biology On-line. Available on-line. URL:
http://biology-online.org/. Accessed May 20, 2003
Many on-line tutorials on various biology-related sub-
jects, as well as many other links to biology and envi-
ronment Websites.

Biology Website References for Students and Teachers.
Available on-line. URL:
http://www.hoflink.com/~house/genbkgd.html.
Accessed May 20, 2003.
Find out where you can find a career in biology, order
biological equipment or specimens, find biological

classifications of animals and plants, and locate other

general biology material.

Botanical Society of American Online Images.

Available on-line. URL:

http://images.botany.org/. Accessed May 20, 2003.

A collection of approximately 800 images available for

instructional use in 14 collections of images: plant

geography, plant morphology, phloem development,

xylem development, floral ontogeny, lichens, economic

botany, carnivorous plants, organography, pollen, pale-

obotany, plant defense mechanisms, plant anatomy,

and cellular communication channels.

Ecology www Pages. Available on-line. URL:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~brach/Ecology-

WWW.html. Accessed May 20, 2003.

An alphabetical listing of Websites that focuses on the

field of ecology.

Internet Directory of Botany. Available on-line. URL:

http://www.botany.net/IDB/. Accessed May 20, 2003.

A database of subject areas relating to botany. You can

find listings of arboreta, software, universities, courses,

plant checklists, downloadable database sets, and just

about everything you can think of that relates to

botany. You can search alphabetically or by categories.

Contains hundreds of listings.

Library of Biological Resources via the Internet. Avail-

able on-line. URL:

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/biologic.html. Accessed

May 20, 2003.

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