Web Resources

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Images and Pictures:

Genes VII:
All of the figures from this text are available online at Oxford University Press.
These images can be downloaded free for use in teaching.

Human Embryology: Movie and individual pages with information about specific
stages. http://www.med.upenn.edu/meded/public/berp/

MicrobeLibrary.org: Images, curriculum resources, microbiology education and more on this site, affiliated with the American Society for Microbiology.
http://www.microbelibrary.org/

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Background Reading / Lab Techniques:

Biochemistry:

General Protocols for SDS-PAGE, immunoblots, silver stain (click here.)

http://dicty.cmb.nwu.edu/Chis_lab/Lab%20Manual/protein_analysis_and_biochemistr.htm

Protein Electrophoresis and Protein Purification (site also includes molecular biology

http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/protocols.html

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Developmental and Cellular Biology:

An MIT Biochemistry / Cell Biology Module

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/midden/MITBCT/7001main.html

Human Embryology: Movie and individual pages with information about specific

http://www.med.upenn.edu/meded/public/berp/

Links to pages on many different developmental/cell biology topics

http://vlib.org/Science/Cell_Biology/development.shtml

Bill Wasserman's Developmental Biology Page: Movies, links to journals, and other web sites with information about most model systems.

http://www.luc.edu/depts/biology/dev.htm

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Ecology

Free software that allows students to model changes in population size over time and a different program that uses the Lotka-Volterra competition model to look at population size. http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/envis/doc97html/softeco113.html
This site suggests ways to use brine shrimp to model different concepts in ecology

http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/research/bsep.html

The basics of food chains, food webs

http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/questions/dp_energy/dp_energ_transfer.htm

Hardy-Weinburg equilibria

http://library.thinkquest.org/18757/further.htm

Article discussing the idea of group selection.

http://www.sciam.com/0796issue/0796scicit05.html

Immunology:

Immunology Bookcase: General immunology with an on-line quiz to test understanding

http://www.medicine.dal.ca/micro/education/pimunit/home.htm

Monoclonal Antibody Production

http://dicty.cmb.nwu.edu/Chis_lab/Lab%20Manual/immunological_techniques.htm

Antibodies: from Design to Assay: Protocols and general information

http://www.appliedbiosystems.com/pa/340913/340913.html

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Microbiology:

MicrobeLibrary.org: Images, curriculum resources, microbiology education and more on this site, affiliated with the American Society for Microbiology.

http://www.microbelibrary.org/

General information, sterile technique, antiseptics, staining, and morphology.

http://www.cat.cc.md.us/~gkaiser/labmanua/

Clinical microbiology techniques and tests, (click here)

http://medic.med.uth.tmc.edu/path/00001450.htm

Science Stash Microbiology Resources: A collection of links with general information about microbiology, techniques, on-line quizzes and tests.

http://www.atlantic.net/~rolovett/micro.html

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Molecular Biology:

Links to protocols for most techniques: Prep of plasmid DNA, PCR, Northerns,

E.coli

http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/protocols.html

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Neurobiology:

Information about different neurological diseases and disorders, hosted by the

Society for Neuroscience

http://www.sfn.org/briefings/info_dis_disease.html

General neurobiology techniques, ion channel simulations, electrophysiology,

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Physiology:

Human Anatomy and Physiology Web Sites

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6100/1hap.html

General plant physiology information and lab techniques.

http://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/courses/s99/plb111l/

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Writing Scientific Papers:

Designing Assignments:

Annotated list of articles that address teaching, writing, and learning

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/cwp/lib/wacsci.html

Creating assignments that discourage plagiarism

http://www.fno.org/may98/cov98may.html

Organization/Style:

General information on writing scientific reports.

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/ScienceReport.html

Tips to improve writing, use proper citations, and avoiding sexist language.

http://www.reach.ucf.edu/~uwc/resource/handout.html

Annotated reference list of articles that address teaching, writing, and learning

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/cwp/lib/wacsci.html

LARC: The Learning and Academic Resource Center offers workshops and tutorials

http://www.larc.uci.edu/wrtasst.html

Use of Citations:
General citation format
http://zoology.okstate.edu/zoo_lrc/biol1114/study_guides/labs/citation.htm

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Academic Honesty:

UCI Academic Senate Policy on Academic Honesty:

http://www.senate.uci.edu/9_IrvineManual/3ASMAppendices/Appendix08.html

Detecting Plagiarism:
Whenever you are using software to detect plagiarism, it would be best to use multiple systems or finding the actual reference. Some programs will rate original work as unoriginal, depending on the algorithim used.

Findsame.com -- a free service that will search for plagiarism from other internet sources.

http://www.findsame.com/

Plagiarism.org -- students turn their paper in to this site and it compares the papers to those of their classmates as well as a database of other papers and internet sites

http://plagiarism.org/

You can download a free demo version of this software from this site.

http://www.wordchecksystems.com/download.html

This site evaluates several different plagiarism detection sites.

http://www.wou.edu/provost/library/staff/kincanon/plagiarism/chart.htm

Free demo good for 15 days, one on-line site I saw said this system wasn't

http://www.canexus.com/eve/download.shtml

This article tells you how to use alta vista as your own plagiarism

http://www.siu.edu/%7Ecesl/teachers/uwfp.html

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