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This discussion highlights a variety of online resources for studying biology, particularly focusing on animations and videos that illustrate complex biological processes. Key resources include the time-lapse video of Xenopus egg development from Cytographics, which showcases embryonic development stages, and the NIH's Stem Cell Information website. Additional recommendations include UCLA Molecular Biology Tutorials and the Understanding Evolution website, which provides comprehensive educational content on evolution. Users share links to various educational sites, emphasizing the importance of visual learning in biology.

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  • Understanding of basic biological concepts such as embryonic development and cell division.
  • Familiarity with video formats like QuickTime for viewing educational content.
  • Knowledge of online educational resources and how to navigate them effectively.
  • Interest in visual learning tools for complex biological processes.
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  • Explore the Cytographics website for more videos on embryonic development.
  • Learn about the NIH's Stem Cell Information resources for comprehensive stem cell education.
  • Investigate UCLA Molecular Biology Tutorials for interactive learning experiences.
  • Research the Understanding Evolution website for detailed insights into evolutionary biology.
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Students, educators, and biology enthusiasts seeking to enhance their understanding of biological processes through visual aids and animations. This discussion is particularly beneficial for those interested in embryology, evolution, and molecular biology.

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Take a look at this website, it has some really neat Clips, Stills, and Slides of small life forms:

http://www.cytographics.com/Especially nice is the video of Xenopus (toad) eggs. The video illustrate, how perfectly times embyonic development is, since three three eggs were fertilized at the same time and develop at the same speed.

It is cool, since it is a time lapse videa which shows the process from first cell division all the way of the hatching of the tadpole. Too bad the resolution is not so nice, I've got in on a CDROM which is 100x better.

http://www.cytographics.com/gallery/clips/cg_16.gif

Also our Insights Blog
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/trending-bio-chem-tech-articles/
 
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Oh, how wonderful!

I especially liked the "Early Phases of Mitosis", and it's even in quicktime format (which I much prefer).

Very nice sites.
 
Please feel free top post any website which are great resources or have nice animations!
 
I've got some more

http://www.becominghuman.org

Which is a documentary made by Donald C. Johanson, an Paleoanthropologist. It is really extensive and lenghthy: nicely made :) Definetely worth listening to.
 
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Cool! Those are some crazy pictures!
 
I really enjoyed this site... I thought the Noctiluca Scintillans was kinda cutesy, with its ability to catch prey with its flagella... I don't know when I see things like this I want to reconsider being a biology major...
 
That is a really nice tutorial AG, if you know more of these I'd like to know that :)!
 
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I just found two cool websites:

Animated Tutorials
This site is actually of the company which is contracted to make the tutorials, but it seems you can access all of the tutorials that they make. They have many biology ones as well as physics, astronomy etc.

Stem Cell Information
This is the NIH's Stem Cell information website. If you have ever wanted to know anything about stem cells, i think this is a good place to start.
 
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http://www.thymos.com/tat/title.html
I don't know if this will help, but it has a chapter listing, and one of them might be related to what you want. Often if you can just find one site which is related to what you want, check out the links from that site, and you 'surf'[b(] your way to the site you want.
 
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William Calvin has ~10 books (on neuroscience and evolution) online at http://www.williamcalvin.com/index.html#books (Don't be scared away by the horrible web design, though.)
 
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New evolution 101 site. Should be good - - it's by the National Center for Science Education (heavily engaged in the creation-evolution debate).

http://evolution.berkeley.edu

The Understanding Evolution website -- written for teachers but accessible to the general public -- is intended to provide "one-stop shopping" for evolution education. The website is rich in content, with sections on the nature of science, evolution itself, the different lines of evidence supporting evidence, evolution's relevance to everyday life, widespread misconceptions about evolution, and the history of evolutionary thought. There is also an extensive section especially for teachers, giving advice on teaching evolution, ideas for lesson plans, ways to avoid confusing students, and answering common student questions.

And of course, there is the always famous...
http://www.talkorigins.org/
 
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Looking for immunology animations

I'm looking for a site with immunology animations that would be appropriate for students that are either non biology majors or have a very basic understanding of biology. I've looked at a few sites you guys have listed (some very cool sites) but haven't found one that gives a good general overview of the immune response cascade. If you know of good site please let me know!
Thanks
 
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The Center for Evolutionary Psychology:

http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/index.html
 
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Various links

On Protein crystallography
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/11/5/8

Some Books on line
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=mcb.TOC&depth=10
 
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On Genetics

The Special Issue of Science on Human Genomics
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol291/issue5507/index.shtml#specialintro[/URL]

and the Nature Genomics Gateway
http://www.nature.com/genomics/

More of Science (In this case on Epigenetics)
[PLAIN]http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/plus/sfg/resources/res_epigenetics.shtml[/URL]

On Medical Genetics:
[url]http://www.yourgenesyourhealth.org/[/url]

Very important in Medical Genetics:The Online Mendelian Inheritance in MAN
[PLAIN]http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM&cmd=Limits[/URL]

National Human Genome Research Institute
[url]http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/[/url]

The mouse genome (in Nature)
[url]http://www.nature.com/nature/mousegenome/index.html[/url]

DNA from the beginning. Intesresting as divulgative
[url]http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/[/url]
 
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Thank you Ryokan :smile:
 
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Here's a website for all you microbiologists and for anyone interested in microscopy

http://www.microscopyu.com/galleries/confocal/trichomes.html

Enjoy
 
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Nature Chemical Biology

Nature Publishing Group has announced that in June 2005 we will be launching Nature Chemical Biology, a new international forum for the timely publication of research at the interface between chemistry and biology.

http://www.nature.com/nchembio/index.html

Subscribers to Nature.com will get access to other goodies.
 
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This is a highly informative and interesting Biology website by Dr John Kimball:
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/
 
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Phylologist's Dream Site

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 4000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. Pictures of literally everything!

If your into phylogeny,systematics, this is the one! -david

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
 
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Amazing to see: the development of the C. elegans worm (a model organism) from a single cell to a 558-celled worm in about 14 hours. Watch how the single cell gets divided into many units and how a structured worm is formed (with a functioning feeding apparatus, gut, nervous system and muscles) http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/goldstein/lab/celdev.mov

More C. elegans movies: http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/goldstein/lab/movies.html
 
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http://www.botany.org/plantimages/

This is a collection of some beautifully photographed plants, and has some good examples for studying as well.

http://www.cactus-art.biz/gallery/Photo_gallery_index.htm

And a whole bunch of cactii pictures. The huge variety and colour that you find in cactii is amazing.
 
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tnx for the website, really good