Course Supplemental Information and Exercises

Hints for success in school

What's your learning style? Are you a right-brainer, better at visual learning, or are you a left-brainer, and learn better with a more linear and analytical approach. Take this quiz to find out where you stand on the left-right scale of learning, and find out how to capitalize on your strengths, and to build up where you need some help. ( VisualLearners )

Study habits will get you there! Here are some suggestions for improving your success in school by loading the dice in your favor. ( StudentSuccess.biology.08a )

View & Review

These animations will quickly bring you up to speed in topics that are essential to understanding cellular and molecular biology:

BIOLOGY

The ACC Biology department has produced a tutorial of basic biology for review and to help students with more advanced courses in the biological sciences.

http://www.austincc.edu/biology/assessment/

CHEMISTRY

This tutorial will review basic chemistry principles necessary for understandingn biology. (MappingChemistry.08b)

CELL BIOLOGY

This movie shows the membranes and cytoskeletal elements that are found in immune cells and

demonstrates how the parts of the cell work together to serve the cellular functions.

http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/

Select "media" to get a narrated version of this animation.

CELL SIGNALLING

http://www.celanphy.science.ru.nl/Bruce%20web/Flash%20Movies.htm

movies of G protein receptors and signal transduction pathways

CELL DIVISION

Watch mitosis by time-lapse photography:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=s1ylUTbXyWU    
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zBAy0-hsp6A

Meiosis in formation of gametes during sexual reproduction: http://www.cellsalive.com/meiosis.htm

CLASSICAL GENETICS

Fundamental concepts: http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/1/concept/

Practice punnett squares http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/geneprob.htm

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Fundamentals: http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/15/concept/

The rest of the story: http://www.dnai.org

CELLULAR RESPIRATION

(Animations.resp&photosyn.07a)

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

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