Open Educational Resources by Discipline

This book is grounded in an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the concepts at hand. Includes an innovative art program that incorporates critical thinking and clicker questions to help students understand—and apply—key concepts.

"Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy."

"Biology 2e is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. The text provides comprehensive coverage of foundational research and core biology concepts through an evolutionary lens. Biology includes rich features that engage students in scientific inquiry, highlight careers in the biological sciences, and offer everyday applications. The book also includes various types of practice and homework questions that help students understand—and apply—key concepts."

Inside the Cell is a science education booklet that explores the interior design of cells and vividly describes the processes that take place within its organelles and structures. Each chapter includes a few review questions.

A free online lab manual that includes general laboratory procedures, equipment use and safety considerations.

Scitable is a free science library brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher in science.

The New Genetics, a science education booklet published by National Institute of General Medical Sciences, explains the role of genes in health and disease, the basics of DNA and its molecular cousin RNA, and new directions in genetic research.

Free resources for science teachers and students.

The world's leaders in biology present lectures that start with broad introductions and then progress to research questions and experiments.

Covers topics seen in a first year college or high school biology course.

A Portal to Cell & Molecular Animation.

"Whether you're a teacher, student, or just fascinated by science, the NSF Science Zone app will ignite your imagination. Featuring hundreds of exciting videos and high-resolution photos from a dozen areas of science, you can spend hours absorbed in discoveries that take you from the depths of space, to the wonders of the unimaginably small, to the far corners of our own planet. NSF Science Zone is available on the Apple App Store for all iOS mobile devices and on Google Play for Android mobile devices."

Videos on the life sciences from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Key biological concepts animated as narrated and stepped tutorials, along with quizzes.

An online interactive resource for learning biology, from The University of Arizona.

The Cell: An Image Library™ is a freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, showcasing cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes.

Funded by The National Science Foundation, the goal of this exhibit is to use molecular illustration and animation to help describe origins of life research and theories to broad audiences.

Sumanas, Inc. develops animated tutorials in a variety of formats for many scientific disciplines.

This section of the website, Biology Online, aims to promote the understanding of the many various aspects of biology.
Progressively, the subjects covered will become more related to one another, meaning that the 'bigger picture' can be obtained over time by piecing the tutorials together.

"We are pleased to offer you a partial preview of our new Tour of Basic Genetics."

A one-semester introductory eviolutionary and molecular biology course

The Department of Biology offers undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral training programs ranging from general biology to more specialized fields of study and research.

Although the cell is the smallest unit of life, it is by no means simple. Here is an interactive tour to help you understand a basic cell.

Free resources for science teachers and students.

CELLS alive! represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research.

Extensive list of biology animations and videos covering a wide range of topics from the BBC, McGraw Hill, Carnegie Mellon, and more.

PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. The open source simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer

This unit helps you understand the properties of nucleotides and how they contribute to secondary and tertiary structures of nucleic acids at the molecular level.

Try it yourself in the mouse cloning laboratory.

"Starting from atoms, see how many molecules you can build. Collect your molecules and see them in 3D!"