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This page will include various links that might be of interest to Bio 6 Students.

Get some exercise
It may improve your grades! Take a look at this article from the New York Times: Exercise linked with better grades

And while you're at it, think about this: Exercise lengthens telomeres

And this: Can exercise keep you young?

And maybe you should think about studying. Here's another article that may help you reconsider your approach: Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits.

Which essay question will be on the midterm?
If you want to guess, you can use the same method I used to pick the test question: http://www.random.org/integers/.

Bio 6A Links
Look at the Bio 6A Lab site for more links; this list is only for things that didn’t find a home on the main site.

Fetal Pig Links
Western Kentucky University: http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/biol225/images/Zoolab5b.htm

Whitman College: http://www.whitman.edu/biology/vpd/main.html

Clinton Community College: http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/Michael.Gregory/files/Bio%20102/Bio%20102%20Laboratory/Fetal%20Pig/Fetal%20Pig.htm

Anselm: http://www.anselm.edu/internet/bio/genbiobi02/fetalpig.html

Plant Families
Flower parts in general: http://www.life.illinois.edu/ib/335/Flowers/FloralTerms.html

Convolvulaceae: Morning Glory or Bindweed family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolvulaceae

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Convolvulaceae_spp_Blanco_clean.png

http://www.botany.wisc.edu/garden/UW-Botanical_Garden/Convolvulaceae.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Convolvulaceae_2.jpg

Malvaceae: Mallow family

http://www.botany.wisc.edu/garden/UW-Botanical_Garden/Malvaceae.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvaceae

Onagraceae: Evening Primrose family

Typical structures: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onagraceae_spp_Sturm43.jpg

http://www.life.illinois.edu/ib/335/Rosoideae1/Onagraceae02.jpg

http://www.life.illinois.edu/ib/335/PS3e-Fig-09-093-0.jpg

http://www.life.illinois.edu/ib/335/Rosoideae1/Onagraceae03.jpg

pollen: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oenothera_fruticosa_pollen01.jpg

technical characteristics: http://www.life.illinois.edu/ib/335/Rosoideae1/Onagraceae01.jpg

Systematics
Information on the classification & relationships of various groups of organisms:
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology: Eukaryote systematics. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/eukaryotasy.html

Bio 6A Lecture Links
Kidney Physiology in a Nutshell: http://academic.sun.ac.za/med_physbio/med_physiology/dept/kidney.htm (This article is probably wrong about the mechanisms of urea movement across membranes; specific urea transport proteins have been found.)

Internships & Med School
Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance: http://summa.stanford.edu/

Summer Research Programs
If you're interested in a research program for next summer, you might start by looking at this listing from Cornell University:

http://biology.cornell.edu/research/sumprogram.php

It hasn't been fully updated for 2010 yet, but it should give you some ideas.

Also look at the NASA/Ames Research Center internships -- an outstanding program specifically for De Anza and Foothill students:

http://internships.fhda.edu/
Genencor is a local biotech company that has an internship program: http://www.genencor.com/wps/wcm/connect/genencor/genencor/jobs_and_careers/internships/internships_en.htm

In addition, you'll find a lot of programs if you Google with terms like: summer research internship biology.


Bio 6B lecture-Related Sites
http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/About/primer/
http://www.dnalc.org/home.html
Various good cell bio animations: http://www.johnkyrk.com/index.html
Here are some online animations of DNA replication:
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/giannini/flashanimat/molgenetics/dna-rna2.swf
http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAreplication.html
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/GenWeb/Molecular/Theory/Replication/replication.htm
http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehi-tv/dna/replication.html

Bio 6B Lab-Related Sites
SDS-PAGE hall of shame: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/sds-page/sdsgoofs.html
Lambda DNA restriction digests: http://bioprotocol.bio.com/protocolstools/molecula.jhtml or, for photos, scroll down this list of molecular weight markers until you get to lambda/Hind, etc.: http://www.promega.com/catalog/category.asp?catalog%5Fname=Promega%5FProducts&category%5Fname=Molecular+Weight+Markers&description%5Ftext=Molecular+Weight+Markers&Page=1


Free online biology journals:
Public Library of Science Biology http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=index-html

BMC (BioMed Central) Biology http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbiol/
BioMed Central’s list of free online journals: http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/bysubject/
An online biology dictionary: http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary.asp
The Biology Project, an online resource for learning bio:http://www.biology.arizona.edu/DEFAULT.HTML

Statistics
http://www.esf.edu/efb/gibbs/monitor/popmon%20statistics%20links.html
Chi-square test http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/webtools/web_chi_tut.html
online calculators http://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/index.cfm
hyperstat online textbook http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html
ecology stats http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/Stats%20for%20twits/Distressed%20twit%20advice.html

 Updated Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 9:03:26 PM by Brian Mccauley - mccauleybrian@fhda.edu
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