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B5 Growth and development

• http://www.johnkyrk.com/index.html
  This is a good starting point if you looking for more cell images.
• http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html
  A detailed animation revealing ‘The Inner Life of the Cell’.
• http://www.cellsalive.com/cell_cycle.htm
  http://www.cell-action.com/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html
  Summaries of the cell cycle.
• http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/
  This website has photos, movies, and notes about embryo development.
• http://www.dnalc.org/cloning.html
  An animated tutorial on cloning and stem cells.
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,534450,00.html
  An interactive tutorial on human cloning from the Guardian website.
• http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/
  Cloning resources from the Genetic science learning centre.
• http://www.newscientist.com/specials.ns
  The New Scientist websites has many Special Reports, including one on stem cells.
• http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/
  This website from the US National Institutes of Health gives some basic information on stem cells.
• http://www.lewport.wnyric.org/jwanamaker/animations/mitosis.html
  http://www.csuchico.edu/~jbell/Biol207/animations/mitosis.html
  http://www.johnkyrk.com/mitosis.html
  Animations of mitosis. These start simple and become more complicated. You do not need to remember the different stages of mitosis.
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/divide.html#
  A very detailed animation comparing mitosis and meiosis.
• http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/cancer/activities/activity2_animations.htm
  These animations describe what goes wrong in the cell cycle when cancer develops.
• http://www.abpischools.org.uk/resources/genome/index.asp
  http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/genes/144.asp/a>
  http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/17/concept/index.html(scroll down to 15,16,19,20,21)
  Just three of the many, many websites describing the structure of DNA.
• http://www.lewport.wnyric.org/jwanamaker/animations/DNA%20Replication%20-%20long%20.html
  Animation to show DNA replication.
• http://www.lewport.wnyric.org/jwanamaker/animations/Protein%20Synthesis%20-%20long.html
  http://www.brookscole.com/chemistry_d/templates/student_resources/shared_resources/animations/protein_synthesis/protein_synthesis.html
  Animations to show protein synthesis.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/
  This is the BBC’s site with background information and games about the human body. It includes sections on the nervous system.
• http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/brain/index.asp
  This Science Museum website has very good background and games on the brain and mind.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/biology/humansasorganisms/4nervoussystemrev1.shtml
  This BBC website has some quick revision pages on the nervous system.
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/health/3645576.stm
  This news item reports that scientists believe they have located the part of the brain where dreams are created.
• http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/pavlov/index.html
  This is a good animation explaining conditioned reflexes.
• http://www.brainmuseum.org/
  A resource for photographs of brains from different species.