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WWW and Biology

DESCRIPTION

The World Wide Web offers many resources of interest to those who wish to study biology. This lesson will give you a few good starting points.

PROCEDURE

  1. Use your WWW browser to access the sites whose URLs are listed below.

    Biology

    U.S. Geological Survey Biology Home Page
    http://biology.usgs.gov/

    The Tree of Life
    http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

    Molecular Modeling

    Center for Molecular Modeling
    http://cmm.info.nih.gov/modeling/

    Natural History

    National Museum of Natural History: Smithsonian Institution
    http://www.mnh.si.edu/

    The Natural History Museum, London
    http://www.nhm.ac.uk/

  2. Explore the sites. Use the bookmark capabilities of your browser to save the site locations for future use.

  3. Use the exit command to quit your WWW browser.

This lesson is part of the series "DO-IT Lessons" developed by the University of Washington. Creation of the series of lessons is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers 9255803 and 9550003. The lessons are now maintained through funds from the State of Washington. The University of Washington holds the copyright to the series of lessons, however ownership of the Internet resources referenced in the lessons may be found at the resource site. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed at these sites are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the University of Washington or the State of Washington.

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