Visual Lures: Give your brain a break!

These images will help your brain visualize the science:

Chapter 1

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Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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Scientific Method Tutorial  
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Scientific Method
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CROAK -- An Access Excellence Mystery
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How to Make a Wet Mount
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Practice Reading a Graduated Cylinder
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Levels of Biological Organization I-- Matching


Chapter 2

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Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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Principles of Ecology -- Crossword Puzzle

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Analyzing an Ecosystem
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a. Carbon Cycle
b. NPR Global Warming: It's All About Carbon (five-part cartoon series)

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Carbon Cycle Animation 
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Carbon Cycle with Audio 
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Nitrogen Cycle
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Water Cycle
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Water Cycle
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Food Chain Activity
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Food Chain Animation 
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Food Web Activity
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Food Web Activity 
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Heat Loss in Ecosystem Animation
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Decomposer: "Contains copyrighted material under license from AIMS Multimedia"


Chapter 3

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Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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A. Global Warming: Al Gore Film Clip

B. How solar energy affects climate

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What causes El Nino
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Rainshadow
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Succession Graph


Chapter 4

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Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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Graph showing population growth through history
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Factors That Regulate Population Size
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Population and Competition: "Contains copyrighted material under license from AIMS Multimedia"
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World Population Clock  
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U. S. Population Clock
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Population -- Exponential Growth


Chapter 5

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Kudzu (invasive species) -film clip   
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Water Pollution -- Algal Bloom
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Acid Rain Locations in the United States (map)  
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Biological Magnification
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Amount of Fresh Water Available in the World 
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Water Woes (Article)
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Biological Invaders in Hawaii
5 Global Warming Film Clips " Contains copyrighted material under license from AIMS Multimedia"
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Clip 1
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Clip 2
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Clip
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Clip 4 
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Clip 5


Chapter 6

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Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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Macromolecule tutorials and quizzes
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A. Location of electrons in an atom
B.
The basic particles of life.

C. Phytochemicals in Food (This site will tell you some of the
phytochemicals and fiber content in the food you ea
t.)


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How Ionic Chemical Bonds are Formed
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Covalent Chemical Bonds
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Hydrogen Bonding in Water
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Dehydration Synthesis and Hydrolysis Animation    
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Condensation (Dehydration Synthesis) and Hydrolysis
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The Chemistry of Life: Action of Enzymes
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Denaturation of Protein Animation
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Enzymes (No enzymes -- no life) 
How Enzymes Work Animation -- Quiz
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Enzyme Action Animation
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Macromolecule Tutorial
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Enzyme Animation -- Nice
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Formation of Triglyceride (Fat Molecule)
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Lipid Recognition -- Matching 
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Formation of Fat by Dehydration Synthesis
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Construction of DNA Molecule
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Anatomy of DNA (a nucleic acid)
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Organize-It "Organic Molecules


Chapter 7

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Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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Cell Organelle Game 

Golgi body animation
lAnatomy of Animal Cell
Endosymbiosis Animation
Lysosome Animation

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Build a Cell Game
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Organize-It "Animal Cell"
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Organize-It "Plant Cell"
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Identifying Eukaryotic Animal Cell Organelles   
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An Idealized Animal Cell
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Animal Cell Mix 'n Match  
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Plant Cell Mix 'n Match
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Structure of Cell Membrane   
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A.Normal Phagocytosis by a Macrophage
B. Lysosome
C. Sodium Potassium Pump
D. Cotransport
E. Endocytosis and Exocytosis
Lysosomes Aniamtion

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A. Explanation of the Endosymbiotic Hypothesis by Lynn Margulis
B. The Inner Life of A Cell ( 8 minute stunningly beautiful animation -- it's wonderful -- music only)
C. The Inner Life of A Cell (8 minute stunningly beautiful animation with narration -- long download)

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The Sneeze: How Germs Are Spread -- "Contains copyrighted material under license from AIMS Multimedia"
(You will enjoy this 3 minute, 24MB film.)
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Animation: When Alcohol is Added to Synapse
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Animation: When Alcohol is Added to Synapse
The neuron
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Animation of No Cocaine at the Synapse  
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Animation of Cocaine at the Synapse
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Simulation of No Opiates at the Synapse
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Animation of Opiates at the Synapse
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Amoeboid movement (this is how your white blood cells move about)
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Cilia Movement in Paramecium
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Cilia Movement in Vorticella
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Flagellum Movement
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Contractile Vacuole in Paramecium
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Cytoplasmic Streaming in Elodea


Chapter 8

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Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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A Diffusion
B. How Diffusion Works -- Animation -- Quiz
C. Receptor Linked to a Channel Protein Animation -- Quiz

 

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Facilitated Diffusion  
Animation: How Facilitated Diffusion Works -- Quiz
How Sodium Potassium Pump Works -- Quiz
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Osmosis  
How Osmosis Work Animation -- Quiz
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Osmosis Simulation
Plasmolysis in Elodea -- Animation
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Active Transport
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A. Bulk transport
B. Endocytosis and Exocytosis -- complete

C. Phagocytosis (amoba eating)
D. Phagocytosis
E. Phagocytosis resistance
F. Receptor mediated endocytosis
G. Receptor mediated endocytosis

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Exocytosis
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Exocytosis Animation   
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Mitosis Plant Cell Images
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Plant Cell Mitosis -- Matching  
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Mitosis Animal Cell Images
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Animal Cell Mitosis -- Matching
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Animal Mitosis Video
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Activity for Chapter 8 --Online Onion Root Tips: Phases of the cell cycle
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Mitosis Animation   
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Mitosis Animation (slow to load)  
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A.Mitosis Animation
B. Mitosis and Cytokinesis
C. Control of the Cell Cycle
D. How Cancer Grows and Spreads
E. Poster of: How Cancer Grows and Spreads
F. Virtual Stem Cell Laboratory

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Active Transport Animation (Sodium Potassium Pump)
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Stem Cells in the Spotlight: Do you know what a stem cell is? Do you understand what
the controversy is about? Well, here is the site for you.
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Human embryonic Stem Cells  
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Cloning  
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Cloning in Focus


Chapter 9

  116
Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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Function of Parts of Chloroplast  
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Paper Chromatography
  119
Light Reactions of Photosynthesis  
  120
Citric Acid Cycle of Aerobic Respiration


Chapter 10

  121
Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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A.Meiosis
B. Stages of Meiosis
C. Comparison of Mitosis and Meiosis

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Mitosis and Meiosis Activity  


Chapter 11

  124
A. Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook
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B. The DNA Game
C. DNA Replication -- excellent
D. Protein Synthesis
E. Protein Synthesis (turn down the sound) -- it's slow to load
F. mRNA Processing (splicing of exons)
G. RNAi explained Watch the film clip -- it's slow to load (This one excites my brain cells!)
H. HIV Replication
I. Treatment of HIV
J. Restriction Endonucleases (or how genes from different species can be joined together)
K. Protein Synthesis
L. DNA Replication Fork
M. How Nucleotides Are Added in DNA Replication
N. Thymine Dimers: Formation and Repair (How DNA damage from sunlight is repaired)

  126
A. Smoking: The Facts (Tutorial) -- approximately 400,000 smoking related deaths occur each year
B. Interactive Health Tutorials


Chapter 12

  127

A. Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook 

B. Random Orientation of Chromosomes During Meiosis (or Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment -- Excellent for this concept)

  128
A. Karyotyping Activity 
B. Heterozygote superiority (sickle cell anemia)


Chapter 13

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A. Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook


Chapter 15

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Look at the activities provided by the publishers of the textbook 
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Sweaty T-Shirts and Human Mate Choice
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Who Was Charles Darwin?
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a. Continental Drift

b. Continental Drift

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Tale of the Peacock
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On Fossils and Whales
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Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction  
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The Common Genetic Code
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Laetoli Footprints (very famous)
  139
What is a Common Ancestor?
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Finding Lucy (very famous)
  141
HIV and the Bubonic Plague (A few people are immune to AIDS)
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HIV Immunity (Some people are immune to AIDS)
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How Antibiotic Resistance Occurs
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Threat of Tuberculosis
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Natural Selection in Action -- Good Activity
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The Science Behind the Immune System
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Molecular Biology of HIV Infection


Chapters 34, 35, 36, 37, and 39

148 Action Potential Excellent

149. Nerve Impulse Animation with audio