+Biology Resources: Websites & News

ActionBioscience.org is a non-commercial, educational web site created to promote bioscience literacy by providing articles written by scientists and science educators.

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.

A comprehensive catalogue of animal genome size data. Haploid DNA contents (C-values, in picograms) are currently available for 4972 species (3231 vertebrates and 1741 non-vertebrates) based on 6518 records from 669 published sources.

The Catalogue of Life is a quality-assured checklist of more than 1.3 million species of plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms. An uncomplicated structure, and both minimal and standardised dataset provide a sound baseline of species information for all biologists

Provides animations of key biological processes, cell function overview and its anatomy.

Online life sciences dictionary, glossary and terms directory.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

Full text of The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (First Edition) by Charles Darwin

Part of the WWW Virtual Library, this resources concentrates on resources and Web sites in the biosciences.

Making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.