http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 22 May 2013 13:52:53 PDT Wed, 22 May 2013 13:52:53 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=339425 This site includes a teacher's guide and a student's guide for a large number of activities for exploring the science, applications, and social implications of DNA microarray technology. Activity 4 includes six separate, dry-lab activities that increase in complexity. The difficult levels vary from high school through college. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=750096 This is a great article on the origins of biology dating back to the times of ancient Greece. Aristotle combined philosophical and scientific thought and applied it to the natural world around him as a means of gaining further understanding. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=366233 The Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP) produces peer-reviewed teaching resources summarizing topics on conservation biology. Each module contains a synthesis document outlining the main concepts of a subject, a modifiable visual presentation, classroom exercises and solutions, teaching notes, and interdisciplinary case studies. For more information please visit http://ncep.amnh.org where all NCEP modules are available free of charge. Modules are published in English, Spanish and French. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=759300 This page describes nucleic acids in a simple but very thorough way. It talks about DNA and RNA. It talks about the pyrimidine bases: Cytosine and Thymine and it talks about the Purine bases: Adenine, Guanine, and Uracil. It talks about the the parts of nucleic acids and the parts of nucleotides. It talks about the structure of DNA being a double helix and how it is put together.