General Online Biology Resources

• Access Excellence
  Access Excellence is a national (US) educational program that provides high school biology teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the WWW. Genetech is sole sponsor of Access Excellence.

• Advancing In Natural Science
  A biology section of the Open Door Web Site, including sections on Breathing and Activity, How Organisms Communicate and Animal Life Cycles and Dispersal. Students are welcome to use any of the information used on this site in their research projects.

• AP Interactive Animation
  This extensive collection of Interactive Activities is hosted by North Harris College for use with the Advanced Placement program, featuring mostly biology, with some chemistry. The interactive animations are largely Flash, Shockwave and Authorware and will be of use or interest to a wide range of teachers and students

• Australian Science and Technology Links
  An excellent site providing direct access to a selective list of Australian science and technology Internet sites.

• BioInteractive
  Hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, this site displays a collection of biology related animations and interactive media. Links to topics , such as Animations, Virtual Labs, Click and Learn, Ask a Scientist and more are provided.

• Discovery Online
  News briefs from the world of science.

• Education Index®
  Education Index®, is an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily.

• HowStuffWorks
  A great general science and technology site that contains hundreds of articles on how things work. Each subject contains facts, images, descriptions and the variety is impressive.

• IUCN-World Conservation Union
  This is the website of the World Conservation Union, formed to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and sustainable. It contains many up to date articles, statistics and pieces of information on regional to global level.

• Internet Directories: Biological Sciences
  Offers a range of web links to other biological sites.

• Ken's Bio-Web Resources
  This web page offers a wide range of information of various biology topics. Includes: animal behaviour, physiology, cell structure and function, ecology, evolution, genetics, microbiology, plant physiology, plus others.

• NABT: Online Resources
  Part of the National Association of Biology Teachers, this web page provides links to various biological web sites.

• Odysseys: New Zealand Tours
  The Odysseys site is the homepage of a New Zealand company that offers interactive tours for education, families and tourists. The tour's focus is determined by the client and range from curriculum linked programmes to native forests, volcanoes and guided walks.

• Virtual Library: Biosciences
  From this starting point, access areas of interest to you within biology, including: animal and plant science and medicine.