9.3 Blueprint of Life

Explore DNA and genetics - from ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/science/explore/dna/

DNA Interactive - from Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, Main Page
http://www.dnai.org/

Genetic Science Learning Center - from the University of Utah, has comprehensive coverage of basic genetics, genetic disorders, genetics in society and thematic units on genetics of deafness and the genetic testing of new born infants
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/

Teacher Guide Index - from the Genetic Science Learning Center at University of Utah, has comprehensive coverage of basic genetics, genetic disorders, genetics in society and thematic units on genetics of deafness and the genetic testing of new born infants
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/teachers/tindex/

Blazing a Genetic Trail - from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/genetictrail/

DNA from the Beginning: An animated primer on the basics of DNA, genes, and heredity - from the DNA Learning Center, requires Flash Player
http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/

Gene Almanac DNA Learning Center - from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
http://www.dnalc.org/

Waksman Tutorials - from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - tutorials on genetic topics including the Morgan Genetics Tutorial, explores Morgan's work with Drosophila, very good but slow to load
http://avery.rutgers.edu/WSSP/Tutorials/

Biology and Evolutionary Theory - from Talk.Origins Archive
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html

Graphics Gallery - from Access Excellence, includes Mutation of Chromosomes, Crossing-over and Recombination During Meiosis
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/

Ciliates in the Classroom - a joint effort by ciliate biologists to provide classroom protocols, background information and web links for instructors interested in using ciliates in their classroom
http://www.wooster.edu/biology/Ciliates/Ciliates_in_the_Classroom.html

Welcome to the Evolution Wing - from the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, includes links to A History of Evolutionary Thought and a case study in convergent evolution Vertebrate Flight
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html

Natural Selection: The Basics - student activities from Berkely University. Darwin's most famous idea, natural selection, explains much of the diversity of life. Learn how it works, explore examples, and find out how to avoid misconceptions. Scroll down for link to pages.
Student Activities

Darwin's Finches - from Galapagos web site, The Rochester Institute of Technology
http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/DarwinFinch.html

Did Darwin get it wrong? Searching for the ancestor of Darwin's finches - .pdf file, from Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishers
http://go.hrw.com/resources/go_sc/bpe/HX10GJ13.PDF

Evolution Website - from BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/

Understanding evolution- from University of California Berkeley
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

Concept of punctuated equilibrium in evolution and how it differs from the gradual process proposed by Darwin

The Phyletic Gradualism - Punctuated Equilibrium Debate- from Wright State University, USA
http://www.wsbd.net/research/evolution/macroev.html

Gradualism vs Punctuated Equilibrium - graphic from University of Oregon
http://geography.uoregon.edu/whitlock/reserves/geog323/transparencies/wk6punceq.bmp

Punctuated Equilibrium - from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

Score One for Punk Eek: The fitful evolution of bacteria supports a controversial theory - a short Scientific American article on the controversy of punctuated equilibrium
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=000DFABC-A1BF-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21

PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM AT TWENTY: A PALEONTOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE - from the Skeptics Society
http://www.bio.unipg.it/ecologia/Download/Punctuated%20Equilibrium.pdf

Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace
http://www.iol.ie/~spice/alfred.htm

Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural selection with some of its Applications - article in text format by A E Wallace, from Project Gutenberg Mirror Site in Sydney
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/gutenberg/1/4/5/5/14558/14558-8.txt

Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural selection with some of its Applications - in HTML format, from Gutenberg Project, includes images
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14558/14558-h/14558-h.htm

Evolution and the Fossil Record - web version of booklet from the American Geological Institute
http://www.agiweb.org/news/evolution/index.html
Printable version of booklet in pdf
http://www.agiweb.org/news/evolution.pdf

Fossil Horses in Cyberspace - from Florida Museum of Natural History, "learn about paleontology and evolution by exploring the rich fossil record of horses"
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/fhc/fhc.htm

Dinosauria On-line - from The Dinostore, contains links to articles, definitions, geological history, cladogram of the dinosaurs
http://www.dinosauria.com/

Archaeopteryx: An Early Bird - from Museum of Paleontology, University of California Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/archaeopteryx.html

All About Archaeopteryx - from Talk Origins
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/archaeopteryx/info.html

The Fossil Record and Evolution - from Carnegie Museums
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/2000/marapr/feat7.html

HAECKEL'S EMBRYOS - from Icons of Evolution, National Center for Science Education
http://www.natcenscied.org/icons/icon4haeckel.html

COMPARATIVE EMBRYOLOGY: THE VERTEBRATE BODY - pdf from Public Broadcasting Service
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/2/pdf/l_042_03.pdf

3. Evolution Makes Sense of Homologies - from University of British Columbia
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~bio336/Bio336/Lectures/Lecture5/Overheads.html

Evolution: Evidence from Living Organisms - from Earlham College
http://bioweb.cs.earlham.edu/9-12/evolution/HTML/live.html

Clines species and Eucalypts: an evolutionary perspective Ph D thesis by James Holman, see summary on page 1
http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/uploads/approved/adt-QGU20030527.124144/public/02Whole.pdf

Molecular evolution of the dog family - an article, published in Trends in Genetics, which explores the cladistics of the dog family
http://www.idir.net/~wolf2dog/wayne2.htm

Molecular Evolution of Prions - from The Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page, a project of the Sperling Biomedical Foundation
http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/prion_evol.html

Primate Genomics: The Search for Genic Changes that Shaped being Human - from University of Chicago
http://www.uchicago.edu/aff/mwc-amacad/biocomplexity/MGHGEP.html

Mitochondrial DNA Multiple Species Comparison - from Human Ageing Genomic Resources
http://genomics.senescence.info/evolution/mtDNA.html

Primate Genomics deriv relationships - .gif, from Human Ageing Genomic Resources image B& W
http://genomics.senescence.info/evolution/primates.gif

Natural Selection Web site - from University of Wisconsin, contains extensive information and materials for use in middle school and/or high school classrooms
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ncisla/muse/naturalselection/

The Process of Speciation - from Global Change, University of Michigan
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/speciation/speciation.html

Australian Native Poisonous Plants - from australian plants online - native fauna in Western Australia such as the brush-tail possum have developed a tolerance to plants which contain fluoroacetate while eastern members of the same species have not
http://farrer.riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/APOL7/sep97-4.html

Latitudinal Clines - from Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research .
Search for latitudinal clines for summaries of work on several different species in eastern Australia
http://www.cesar.org.au/user/files//annual_report_2004.pdf

Conservation genetics - molecular detectives at work - a NOVA resource from the Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/044/044key.htm

Biston betularia - excellent photos of the Peppered Moth, from Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
http://www.leps.it/SpeciesPages/BistoBetul.htm

Biston betularia - excellent photos of the Peppered Moth, from San Diego Sate University
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/classes/biology/bio100/vandergast/BistonBetularia.jpg

The Peppered Moth an Update - from Kenneth R. Miller, University of Colorado
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/Moths/moths.html

Fine Tuning the peppered moth paradigm - from College of William & Mary
http://bsgran.people.wm.edu/melanism.pdf

Recent history of melanism in American peppered Moths - from The College of William and Mary
http://bsgran.people.wm.edu/Grant&Wiseman.pdf

The Rise of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections - from the US Drug and Food Administration
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/795_antibio.html

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE - a fact sheet from the WHO
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/index.html

Microbes: Their Diversity, Antibacterial Targets and Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/BF/bf05/girard/toc.html

Integrated pest management - the good, the bad and the genetically modified - a NOVA resource from the Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/041/041key.htm

More food, cleaner food - gene technology and plants - a NOVA resource from the Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/009/009key.htm

Evolution debate

EVOLUTION vs CREATIONISM - from Syracuse University. Many Links to related web sites.
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/ORIGINS/origins.html

Evolution devolution - from the Why Files
http://whyfiles.org/095evolution/

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense - from Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D4FEC-7D5B-1D07-8E49809EC588EEDF

Learning from the Fossil Record - from The Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley including a collection of classroom activities
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/fosrec.html

From Access Excellence

Evolution - a series of laboratory activities, lesson plans on evolution and related themes
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995/

From Restriction Maps to Cladograms
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995/simulation_restriction.html

Constructing a Phylogenetic Tree Using DNA Sequence Data
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995/simulation_tree.html

Using Amino Acid Sequences to Show Evolutionary Relationships Foundation
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995/simulation_amino.html

Molecular Biology and Primate Phylogenetics
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995/simulation_molecular.html

Human Evolution - interactive timeline of hominid evolution from A Science Odyssey at PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/evolution/

Mendelian Genetics - from The Biology Project, The University of Arizona (Australian mirror site)
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/mirror/biolproject/mendelian_genetics/mendelian_genetics.html
or the original site
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/mendelian_genetics/mendelian_genetics.html

Gregor Mendel

Pea Soup - The Story of Mendel - including a Brief Biography of Mendel, Mendel's Discoveries and Interactive Pea Experiment
http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/projects/anthro201/

Mendel: Experiment 1 - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/mendel.html

Genetics graphics gallery - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/index.html#Anchor-Genetics-35326

Gregor Mendel (1823-1884) - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Gregor_Mendel.html

Experiments in Plant Hybridization (1865) by Gregor Mendel - English translation of Mendel's original paper from the Mendel Web
http://www.mendelweb.org/Mendel.html

Morgan

Chromosomes carry genes - from DNA from the Beginning at the DNA Learning Center
http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/10/concept/fs.html

Morgan: A Genetics Tutorial - a comprehensive coverage of genetics that includes Morgan's work with Drosophila, from Waksman Student Tutorials, Rutgers University
http://morgan.rutgers.edu/MorganWebFrames/htmldocs/contents.html

Mutant Fruit Flies - online exhibition from The Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mutant_flies/mutant_flies.html

Sex-Linked Inheritance: Drosophilia - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/sex.html

Thomas H. Morgan – Nobel Lecture - from Nobel e-Museum
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1933/morgan-lecture.html

Thomas Hunt Morgan and his Legacy - from Nobel e-Museum
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/articles/lewis/

Sturtevant and Dobzhansky: Two Scientists at Odds - from The History of Drosphila
http://www.drosophilahistory.com/sturtevant-dobzhansky-novitski/frame.html

Biography of Sturtevant - from the National Academies Press
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/asturtevant.pdf

Biography of Dobzhansky - from Minnesota State University Mankato
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/dobzhansky_theodosius.html

Human phenotypes

Phenotypes and Genotypes for human eye colors - from Science Education on the Web
http://www.athro.com/evo/gen/eyecols.html

Human phenotypes - classroom activity from Valencia Community College
http://faculty.valencia.cc.fl.us/glindbeck/BSC1010_Labs/Human%20Phenotypes.pdf

Meiosis Tutorial - from The Biology Project, University of Arizona (Australian mirror site)
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/mirror/biolproject/cell_bio/tutorials/meiosis/main.html
or original site
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/meiosis/main.html

Meiosis animations and diagrams

Meiosis Movie
http://cellscienceproject.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/meiosis.mov

How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis - from Nova, PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/baby/divide.html

Animal Cell Meiosis - from Cella Alive, slow download
http://www.cellsalive.com/meiosis.htm

Cell Division - from Copernicus Project
http://www.copernicusproject.ucr.edu/ssi/HSBiologyResources.htm

The Stages of Meiosis - good diagrams from The University of Hamburg.
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e09/09b.htm

Stages of meiosis Simple black and white drawings - from Trent University
http://www.trentu.ca/biology/101/14_noanim.html

Meiosis in mammalian testis - stained slide material
http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/Thumbnails/filedet.htm?File_name=19-372&File_type=GIF

Mitosis in plant root tip for comparison - from Microscopy UK. jpg image
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/imgaug99/whole.jpg

Web Labs - from BioLogica (Concord Consortium), includes two online interactives, Dragon Genetics (explores the relationship between genotype and phenotype in Dragons) and Mendel's Peas (meiosis and pedigree), requires ShockWave
http://www.concord.org/biologica/webtest1/web_labs.htm

GenScope - computer software for the Macintosh which helps students learn about genetics covering DNA, chromosome, cell, phenotype and genotype, pedigree, mitosis, meiosis and much more, can be downloaded from
http://genscope.concord.org/
Dragon Investigations - worksheets to accompany GenScope can be downloaded in pdf format from
http://genscope.concord.org/research/newworm.html

BioLogica - computer software for both Windows and Macintosh which helps students learn about genetics covering DNA, chromosome, cell, phenotype and genotype, pedigree, mitosis, meiosis and much more, download from
http://www.concord.org/biologica/

Pea Experiment - an interactive pea experiment where you can breed your own hybrid pea plants
http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/projects/anthro201/exper/

Class room Activities - from Genetics Education Partnership
Activities for High School Level

Sutton and Boveri

Did Sutton and Boveri Propose the So-Called Sutton-Boveri Chromosome Hypothesis? - article from the Scientific Electronic Library Online
http://www.scielo.br/cgi-bin/fbpe/fbtext?got=last&pid=S1415-47571999000200022&usr=fbpe&lng=en&nrm=iso&sss=1&aut=71981947

THEODOR BOVERI: THE LIFE OF A GREAT BIOLOGIST 1862 - 1915 - a discussion of his work from Zygote web site, Swathmore College
http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/fert6b.html

Beadle and Tatum (One gene - one protein hypothesis)

Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora: Beadle and Tatum (1941) - lecture notes from Memorial University of Newfoundland outlining Beadle and Tatum's research and findings
http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Beadle_%26_Tatum_experiment.htm

The One Gene/One Enzyme Hypothesis - Beadle and Tatum's 1941 Breakthrough - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/One_Gene_One_Enzyme.html

Edward Tatum – Biography - from Nobel e-Museum, link to his Nobel lecture
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1958/tatum-bio.html

George Beadle – Biography - from Nobel e-Museum, link to his Nobel lecture
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1958/beadle-bio.html

A Gene Map of the Human Genome - from the National Institute of Health
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SCIENCE96/

A New Gene Map of the Human Genome - from the National Institute of Health
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genemap99/

Human Cytogenetics - includes karyotypes and ideograms for human
http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/cyto/human/

Primate Cytogenetics Network - includes karyotypes and ideograms for many primates
http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/cyto/

Data Sets - human phenotypes of first year students at an Australian university
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/curric/stage6/biol/prntlife/data.html

A structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid - James Watson and Francis Crick's paper on the structure of DNA (as published in NATURE magazine)
http://academy.d20.co.edu/kadets/lundberg/dnapaper.html

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 - from the Nobel e-Museum
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1962/

Biographical Sketch of James Dewey Watson - from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
http://library.cshl.edu/archives/jdwbio.htm

James Dewey Watson (1928 - ) - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/James_Dewey_Watson.html

James Watson & Francis Crick - from Time Magazine Scientists and Thinkers
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/watsoncrick.html

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin - from Contribution of 20th Century Women to Physics at University of California (UCLA)
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/Franklin,_Rosalind@841234567.html

Rosalind Elsie Franklin - from Women in Science (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html

Rosalind Franklin 1920 - 1958 - from A Science Odyssey
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bofran.html

Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Rosalind_Franklin.html

Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA - from NPR media organisation
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/oct/darklady/

Maurice Wilkins

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 - from the Nobel Prize web site
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1962/

Maurice Wilkins DNA ENABLER - from The New Zealand Edge: Heroes
http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/wilkins.html

Build a DNA Molecule - online activityfrom the Genetic Science Learning Center
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/basics/builddna/

Molecular Biology - from The Biology Project, The University of Arizona
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/molecular_bio/molecular_bio.html

What is DNA? - interactive fromBiotechnology Australia
http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/biotec/whatisdna.cfm

Using a Gene Probe - interactive from Biotechnology Australia
http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/biotec/findgene.cfm

DNA Extraction from Wheat Germ - a laboratory procedure from the Genetic Science Learning Center
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/activities/wheatgerm/

How to Extract DNA from Anything Living -a laboratory procedure from the Genetic Science Learning Center
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/activities/extraction/

Discovering DNA student workshop (New South Wales) - from CSIRO,a 90 minute hands-on workshop about DNA for students in Years 10 - 12, booking details given on web page
http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/psym,,.html

Introduction to DNA extractions - from Access Excellence includes protocols for onion, wheat germ, lima bean, bacteria, thymus and yeast
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/DNA_extractions.html and

DNA Extraction - from Escherichia coli teacher information, from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1991/dna.html

DNA Extraction from Cheek Cells - from Science Education Connection, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Arizona
http://biology.arizona.edu/sciconn/lessons/vuturo/extraction/extractinfo.html

Student information for DNA extraction - from Science Education Connection, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Arizona
http://biology.arizona.edu/sciconn/lessons/vuturo/extraction/extraction.html

Experiments - from the BioTech Project, The University of Arizona including extraction of DNA from Kiwifruit and Onion
http://biotech.biology.arizona.edu/labs/labs.html

DNA replication and protein synthesis - online interactive from A Science Odyssey, requires Shockwave
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/

DNA Model - from Double Helix, CSIRO, provides templates and instructions
http://www.csiro.au/helix/dna/dhdnamodel.shtml

A Vital Legacy - Biological and Environmental Research in the Atomic Age - a 48 page booklet (download in pdf) from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/publicat/miscpubs/ober-lay.pdf

History of Plant Breeding - from Colorado State University, example of plant breeding involving artificially induced mutations
http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/TransgenicCrops/history.html

How Does Radiation Affect Humans? - from the Office of Environment, Safety and Health
http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/intro_9_5.html

DNA-o-gram Generator - this site illustrates the coding and decoding of DNA and the occurrence of mutations in an interactive, novel way (students write a message, it is encoded into combinations of As, Ts, Gs and Cs, sent as an email to a friend who in turn types in the coded message which is decoded as long as no errors or mutations have occurred)
http://www.thinkbiotech.com/DNA-o-gram/

How do Mutations Occur? - online activity from the Genetic Science Learning Center
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/disorders/sloozeworm/

What is a Mutation? - online activity from the Genetic Science Learning Center
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/disorders/mutations/

Gene Technology in Australia - from CSIRO covers topics such as Gene Technology: What are its uses? Current Australian Research and The great GT debate
http://genetech.csiro.au/
Alternate site
http://www.csiro.au/pubgenesite/index.htm

Biotechnology Australia - has fact sheets on topics such as Gene Technology, Biotechnology in Medicine and Biotechnology and Food
http://www.biotechnology.gov.au/

Gene Splicing Interactive - interactive from Biotechnology Australia
http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/popups/int_splicing.cfm

Genetically-Engineered Adenovirus That Kills Cancer Cells! - from the University of Kansas
http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/p53.html

GENETIC TOOLS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE - from Genetic Odyssey: An Exploration of Genetic Topics, National Center for Genome Resources (Australian mirror site)
http://www.csu.edu.au/learning/ncgr/gpi/odyssey/

A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING? - from Genetic Odyssey: An Exploration of Genetic Topics, National Center for Genome Resources (Australian mirror site)
http://www.csu.edu.au/learning/ncgr/gpi/odyssey/dolly-cloning/

Crossbreeding makes beautiful flowers - from Beginner's Guide ASAGAO, Japan
http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda_DB/E/Introduction/htmls/43.html

History of Plant Breeding - from Colorado State University
http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/TransgenicCrops/history.html

To Boost Gene Pool, Lions Artificially Inseminated - from National Geographic Magazine
"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0612_020612_TVlion.html

Project Elephant - from Indianapolis Zoo
http://www.indyzoo.com/content.aspx?cid=292

Meeting the Challenge of Conserving Endangered Species - from Smithsonian Zoological Park
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ReproductiveScience/ElephantBreedRepro/default.cfm

Amali the Baby Elephant - Diagnostic Products Corporation
http://www.dpcweb.com/documents/news&views/spring00/elephant.htm

Why Does The Cheetah Lack Genetic Diversity? - from Cheetah Conservation Fund
http://www.cheetah.org/?html=aboutcheetah-03

More food, cleaner food - gene technology and plants - from NOVA at the Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/009/009key.htm

Designing Trees - article from Scientific American on the genetic engineering of pest-resistant trees
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0000BA96-AE60-1CDA-B4A8809EC588EEDF

Module Guide: Cloning in Focus - from Genetic Science learning Center
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/print-and-go/moduleguide.cfm

Concept Maps on Cloning -from Genetic Science learning Center
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/print-and-go/conceptmap.cfm

Print-and-Go Index - resources from the Genetic Science Learning Center
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/teachers/units/cloning/conceptmap-cloning.pdf

Chromosomes 6 - a brief review of the novel of the same name by Robin Cook, transgenic bonobos are bred for human transplants
http://www.delmeyer.net/bkrev698.htm

Transgenic Animals - from The Virtual Embryo, The University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~browder/transgenic.html

Making a Genetically Modified Animal - from Agresearch, NZ
http://www.agresearch.co.nz/scied/search/biotech/gene_gmomaking_animal.htm

"Superfish are no superfix for hunger" - from the Ag BioTech InfoNet
http://www.biotech-info.net/superfish.html

Transgenic Animals - from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenic_animals

What is a Transgenic Mouse? - from University of California Irvine School of Biological Sciences
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/%7Etjf/tmf_tgms.html

What are Transgenic Plants? - from Colorado State University
http://cls.casa.colostate.edu/TransgenicCrops/what.html

Animal and Plant Transformation: The Application of Transgenic Organisms in Agriculture - from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~vista/html_pubs/irspsm91/transfor.html

Genetic Transformation of Crop Species - from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~vista/html_pubs/irspsm91/genetic.html

Integrated pest management - the good, the bad and the genetically modified - from NOVA, the Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/041/041key.htm

National Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome Network - is possibly the first genetically engineered disease (although other web sources state the cause as a toxin not necessarily genetically engineered)
http://www.nemsn.org/

Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry - from The President's Council on Bioethics
http://www.bioethics.gov/cloningreport/execsummary.html

What are some issues in Cloning? - online activity from the Genetic Science Learning Center
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/clissues/

Genetic engineering: animal welfare and ethics - from the Boyd Group, forum for open exchange of views on issues of concern related to the use of animals in science
http://www.boyd-group.demon.co.uk/genmod.htm

Ethics and transgenic crops: a review - an article in the Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
http://www.ejb.org/content/vol2/issue2/full/3/

Killer virus: An engineered mouse virus leaves us one step away from the ultimate bioweapon - reprint of an article from The New Scientist
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/killervirus.html

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