SCIENCE RESOURCES - Biology

Websites: 

• ActionBioscience.org

  http://actionbioscience.org/

  Educational resource of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Provides links to articles about biodiversity, environment, genomics, biotechnology, evolution and new frontiers. 

• Encyclopedia of Life

  http://www.eol.org/index 

  Collaborative effort by national history museums, botanical gardens, research institutions and individuals to create the most complete biodiversity database on the Web.

• The Phylogeny of Life 

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/historyoflife.php 

  An exhibit maintained by the University of California Museum of Paleontology that explores biodiversity through time, focusing on major lineages of organisms.

• Understanding Evolution 

  http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ 

  Comprehensive source for information about evolution from University of California at Berkeley. Special section for teachers containing lesson plans and other resources.  

Databases and Online Reference Books

• Beacham's guide to the endangered specis of North America (galegroup)
• Biology (galegroup)
• A dictionary of animal behaviour
• A dictionary of biology
• A dictionary of genetics
• A dictionary of plant sciences
• A dictionary of scientists
• Dictionary of zoology
• The encyclopedia of underwater life
• The new encyclopedia of birds
• Oxford companion to the body
• A dictionary of ecology
• Scientific American Online Archive 

Reference Materials in Print

• Biology matters!  REF 570 B520
• World of biology  REF 570 M178w
• The Facts on File dictionary of biology  REF 570.3 F119h
• The Cambridge encyclopedia of life sciences  REF 574 C144f
• Biology  REF 574 C943b
• World of genetics  REF 576.5 L562w
• Encyclopedia of biomes  REF 577 W427u
• Plant sciences  REF 580 R566p
• Grzimek’s animal life encyclopedia  REF 590.3 G929a
• Encyclopedia of mammals  REF 599.03 En19m
• Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory   REF 599.938 En19d   

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Browse the stacks

• 570 Life sciences
• 571 Physiology
• 572 Biochemistry
• 576 Genetics and evolution
• 577 Ecology
• 578 Natural history
• 579 Microorganisms, fungi, algae
• 580 Plants
• 590 Zoological sciences
• 592 Invertebrates
• 596 Vertebrates
• 597 Fishes
• 598 Birds
• 599 Mammals

Periodicals

• Discover
• National Geographic
• National Wildlife
• Science
• Science News
• Scientific American
• Science Books and Films

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