Eli C. Minkoff and Pamela J. Baker
BIOLOGY TODAY: AN ISSUES APPROACH
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• Chapter 1. BIOLOGY: SCIENCE AND ETHICS
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Royal Society (London)
  • The Karl Popper Web
  • History of Science directory
  • Various 20th century scientists
  • Ernest Everett Just
  • Beyond Discovery: how research findings are implemented
  • Utilitarianism
  • Bioethics Resources (from NIH)
  • Yahoo Directory: Biomedical Ethics Includes: abortion, animal experimentation, human subjects, cloning, gene therapy, genetic engineering, gene projects, and more.
  • Pub Med (health information)
  • National Health Museum (includes biotechnology and ethics)
  • Religious dimensions of various ethical issues
  • AnimalRights.net
  • PETA
• Chapter 2. GENES, CHROMOSOMES, AND DNA
  • Mendel Web
  • Gregor Mendel, incl. links to other web sites
  • Barbara McClintock
  • Primer on molecular genetics
  • Cold Spring Harbor Labs: DNA Learning Center
  • Invention of the genetic code
  • Graphic images of DNA & RNA
  • DNA files
  • DNA from the beginning (Cold Spring Harbor)
  • Watson & Crick's original paper on DNA
• Chapter 3. HUMAN GENETICS
  • Primer on molecular genetics
  • Inborn Errors in Metabolism
  • Yahoo directory: Genetics
  • Gene Map 98: Locations of human genes and markers
  • Gene Map 99: Locations of human genes and markers
  • Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
  • Environmental Genome Project (how gene-environment interactions contribute to disease)
  • Cold Spring Harbor Labs: DNA Learning Center
  • History of eugenics in USA
  • UniGene database
  • The Deambulum (Infobiogen - Université René Descartes)
  • Human Gene Databases
  • Yahoo Directory: particular genetic disorders
  • Muscular Dystrophy Association (U.S.)
  • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (U.S.)
  • Tay-Sachs Disease information
  • Tay-Sachs and Allied Disorders
• Chapter 4. GENETIC ENGINEERING AND GENOMICS
  • National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Thailand)
  • Human Genome Project information (US Dept. of Energy) (Lots of information, incl.
    Frequently Asked Questions, also a list of species whose gene sequences are now known.)
  • Human Genome Project home page
  • The complete human genome, updated daily
  • Another complete listing of the human genome.
  • National Center for Genome Resources
  • National Human Genome Research Institute
  • Human genome resources
  • The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
  • Jackson Laboratory (mouse genetics and human diseases)
  • Jackson Laboratory: mouse informatics (including mouse/human comparisons)
  • Gene therapy information
  • Human Genetics Advisory Commission (U.K.)
  • Généthon-- Gene therapies research & applications center
  • European Society of Gene Therapy
  • National Health Museum (includes information on biotechnology)
  • NIH Office of Biotechnology Activities
  • Yahoo directory: Genetic Engineering
  • Cloning discussion
  • Ethics of cloning
  • Gene Letter
  • DNA files
  • Various genome projects; also ethical, legal, social issues
  • Ethical, legal, and social issues in human genome research.
• Chapter 5. EVOLUTION (2nd ed. Ch. 4)
  • Biology Links: Evolution
  • Science and Creationism (National Academy of Science)
  • Evolution Website (from B.B.C. education); includes links to complete Darwin texts online
  • Newton Darwin Freud Einstein (University of Florida)
  • Charles Darwin directory
  • Charles Darwin (from B.B.C.)
  • National Council on Science Education, -- includes many more links on evolution and creationism
  • Article on various forms of creationism (from N.C.S.E.)
  • Other articles from N.C.S.E.:
    [ (a) ]   _   [ (b) ]   _   [ (c) ]   _   [ (d) ]   _   [ (e) ]   _   [ (f) ]
  • Theories of Origins
  • AMNH debates on Intelligent Design
  • Statements from science organizations
  • Statements from religous organizations
  • Talk origins, an on-line forum discussing creationism.
  • Speciation in Ensatina salamanders
  • The Cephalopod Page
  • American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.)
• Chapter 6. CLASSIFYING NATURE
  • Yahoo directory: Systematics and Taxonomy
  • Kingdoms of organisms
  • The Tree of Life (Univ. of Arizona)
  • Systematics Servers on the Web (Univ. of Connecticut)
  • BIOSIS: Internet Resource Guide for Zoology
  • Animal Diversity Web (Univ. of Michigan)
  • Human origins
  • Human origins: fossil specimens
• Chapter 7. HUMAN VARIATION (2nd ed. Ch. 5)
  • Human Genome Diversity Project
  • Intelligence and Equality: Criticism of The Bell Curve
  • Blood groups
  • Joint Center for Sickle Cell and Thalassemic Disorders
  • Comprehensive Sickle Cell Centers
  • Sickle Cell Information Center
  • Sickle Cell web sites (directory)
  • Malaria: An Online Resource
  • Malaria resources
  • Thalassemia information
  • Berloni Foundation against Thalassemia
  • Cooley's Anemia Foundation
• Chapter 8. SOCIOBIOLOGY (2nd ed. Ch. 7)
  • Animal behavior web resources
  • Animal behavior course at Rice University
  • Social insects
  • Social insects WWW
  • Primate fact sheets, incl. bibliographies
  • Chimpanzee hunting
  • Baboons
  • Genetics of alcoholism
  • Genetics of alcoholism: further links
• Chapter 9. THE POPULATION EXPLOSION (2nd ed. Ch. 6)
  • U.N. Population Information Network
  • POPNET -- source for global population information
  • Population Reference Bureau
  • 2003 Population data (Population Reference Bureau)
  • WWW Virtual Library: Demography & population studies
  • U.N. World Population Data
  • Population Connection (Zero Population Growth)
  • Cloning discussion
  • Ethics of cloning
  • Abortion: various religious viewpoints
  • Abortion Law Homepage
  • AbortionFacts.com
  • Yahoo Directory: Birth Control
  • Ann Rose's Ultimate Birth Control Links Page
  • Contraceptive Guide by Mary Jane Bovo, M.D.
  • Protecting Against Unintended Pregnancy (US FDA)
  • Epigee Birth Control Guide
• Chapter 10. NUTRITION AND HEALTH (2nd ed. Ch. 8)
  • Tufts University Nutrition Navigator
  • American Dietetic Association
  • CyberDiet
  • Vegetarian Resource Group
  • Yahoo Directory: Nutrition
  • National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
  • Web MD -- general health advice
  • Health On the Net foundation
  • American Anorexia Bulimia Association
  • National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
  • B.C. Heart Health
  • NOAH -- New York Online Access to Health
  • Yale University School of Medicine Heart Book
  • American Heart Association
  • Vitamins (emphasis on biochemistry)
• Chapter 11. PLANTS TO FEED THE WORLD (2nd ed. Ch. 14)
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Yahoo Directory: Agriculture
  • U.N. World Agricultural Information Centre (F.A.O.)
  • Carnivorous Plants
  • Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats
  • Carnivorous Plants - FAQ
  • Galleria Carnivora
  • Database of Integrated Pest Management Resources
  • Radcliffe's I.P.M. World Textbook
  • U.S.D.A. regional pest management, national I.P.M. Centers
  • Yahoo directory: Genetic Engineering in Plants
  • Bioengineered foods (from F.D.A.)
  • Transgenic Crops (Colorado State University)
  • Monsanto Corporation (U.S.)
  • Monsanto Corporation (U.K.)
  • Monsanto Corp.: Agriculture
  • Genetically Modified Foods (New Scientist)
  • Greenpeace: Genetically Engineered food
  • Global Issues: Genetically Engineered food
  • Sierra Club: Genetic Engineering
  • Nature: GM crops & GM world view
  • Genetically-modified food (National Council for Biotechnology Education, UK)
  • NCBE publications: Genetically-modified food
  • Biotechnology Australia
  • Regulation on sale of GM foods (Australia, New Zealand)
  • GM Applications in food and agriculture
• Chapter 12. STEM CELLS, CELL DIVISION, AND CANCER (2nd ed. Ch. 9)
  • Stem Cells (from NIH)
  • American Cancer Society
  • National Cancer Institute
  • National Cancer Institute Access Excellence
  • Cancer: What You Need to Know
  • Cancer Index: Guide to Internet resources
  • Yahoo Directory: Cancer
  • Cancer Web (formerly CancerNet)
  • Cancer Statistics (from the American Cancer Society)
  • National Center for Health Statistics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  • Data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) study.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance system.
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Press Releases, etc.)
  • Cancer fact sheets (National Cancer Institute)
  • Herceptin
  • Proto-oncogenes, oncogenes, and cancer
• Chapter 13. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SENSES (2nd ed. Ch. 10)
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience for Kids
  • Neurotransmitters
  • National Parkinson Foundation
  • Parkinson's Disease Index
  • Schizophrenia: Youth's Greatest Disabler
  • American Association of Sleep Medicine
  • Association for the Study of Dreams
  • Centre for Sleep Research
  • Center for Sleep & Circadian Biology (Northwestern Univ.)
  • Sleepnet.com
• Chapter 14. DRUGS AND ADDICTION (2nd ed. Ch. 11)
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • National Instiutute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
  • About Cocaine
  • National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine publications:
    1. Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids (2017)
    2. Marijuana as Medicine? (2001)
  • Granite Recovery Center:
    1. Addiction Resources for Students
    2. Foods to Improve Mental Health
• Chapter 15. MIND AND BODY (2nd ed. Ch. 12)
  • Immune System (incl. a directory of other sites)
  • The Immune System (from N.I.H.)
  • Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society
  • ImmuneDisease.com (Baxter Health Care) (Includes a good glossary)
  • Impact of Meditation on Immune, Stress, and Disease Status . . .
  • Stress and the Immune System
  • Stress-induced Immunomodulation
  • Link between Stress and Immune System in Cancer Patients
• Chapter 16. HIV AND AIDS (2nd ed. Ch. 13)
  • AIDS 101 (San Francisco AIDS Foundation)
  • HIV InSite (U. C. San Francisco)
  • HIV/AIDS info (National Library of Medicine)
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • C.D.C. Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
  • Durban statement: HIV as the cause of AIDS
  • HIV/AIDS epidemic (Kaiser Family Foundation)
  • National HIV testing resources
  • The Body: an AIDS and HIV information resource
  • HIV testing
  • AIDS resource list
  • HIV/AIDS Information Index
  • United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS
  • CDC's National Prevention Information Network
  • CDC National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention
  • HIV and AIDS activities (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  • Global HIV and AIDS epidemic
  • U.S. HIV/AIDS statistics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  • Health statistics for the U.S.
  • Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention (CDC)
• Chapter 17. NEW INFECTIOUS THREATS
  • United Nations World Health Organization
  • Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
  • National (U.S.) Center for Health Statistics
  • C.D.C. health Data and Statistics (U.S.)
  • C.D.C. emergency preparedness (includes bioterrorism)
  • Biological agents / diseases
  • Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention (CDC)
• Chapter 18. BIODIVERSITY AND THREATENED HABITATS (2nd ed. Ch. 15)
  • Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity
  • Conservation of Biological Diversity
  • Yahoo Directory: Ecosystems-related web sites (includes Rainforests and other biomes)
  • Biodiversity: Measuring the Variety of Nature (British Natural History Museum)
  • U.N. Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species
  • United Nations Environment Programme (U.N.E.P.)
  • U.N.E.P. Biodiversity Programme
  • Protecting biological diversity in Africa
  • Biodiversity and Conservation, a hypertext book by Peter J. Bryant
  • Conservation International
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • World Wilflife Fund
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • Sierra Club
  • Tropical Conservancy
  • IUCN -- World Conservation Union
  • IUCN Red List of endangered & threatened species
  • Endangered Species Coalition
  • The Extinction Files (BBC)
  • Biological diversity & protected areas (World Resources Institute)
  • Biodiversity: A History of Extinction (World Resources Inst.)
  • Sustainable Agriculture (World Resources Inst.)
  • Extinction In The Wild
  • Vanishing In The Wild
  • Mass Extinction (including many links)
  • Extinctions: Cycles of Life and Death Through Time
  • Environments through time (includes mass extinctions)
  • Meteorites, Impacts, and Mass Extinction
  • The Sixth Extinction (from National Geographic)
  • The Alvarez Asteroid Impact Theory
  • Impact Theory of Mass Extinction
  • Yahoo Directory: Sustainable Development
  • The Future is Abundant (Guide to Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Alternative Farming Systems and Sustainable Agriculture (from U.S.D.A.)
  • Environmental Management and Sustainability (Ontario Ministry of Agriculture)
  • Virtual Library: Comprehensive Index to Web Sites on Sustainable Development
  • Turnpoint Project (sustainable agriculture, etc.)
• Chapter 19. PROTECTING THE BIOSPHERE
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • E.P.A. Atmosphere topics
  • Air Quality data (E.P.A.)
  • Climate Monitoring (N.O.A.A.)
  • Meteorology @ Bracknell: Ozone in the atmosphere
  • Ozone Basics (N.O.A.A.)
  • Ozone Primer (Environment Canada)
  • Ozone Hole Monitoring
  • Ozone Hole Tour (Cambridge University)
  • Ozone Depletion (South Australia government site)
  • Spacelink - Ozone Studies
  • Global Warming information
  • Global Warming F.A.Q. (N.O.A.A.)
  • E.P.A. Global Warming topics
  • E.P.A. Climate topics
  • Paleoclimates and Global Warming
  • Global Warming (Nat. Resources Defence Council)
  • Woods Hole Global Warming Site

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