Biology

A field guide to the natural world, designed to draw your eye to what we can learn from nature. The site consists of four main sections: Biological Strategies - 1,700+ profiles of specific ways living things have met various challenges; Innovations - profiles of successfully implemented projects informed by biomimicry; Educational Resources - tools for teachers and students to learn about and begin practicing biomimicry; Collections - thoughtful essays that identify a theme, trend, or pattern emerging among various biological strategies and innovations.

Web-based collection of free, biology-focused multimedia teaching resources. Created and administered by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The Department of Biology at MIT makes dozens of courses ranging from general biology to more specialized fields of study and research freely available online.

Knowledge-sharing platform where individual scientists and companies share their wisdom, know-how and solutions of interest to or that concern bioscientists in the lab.

Free biology lecture videos, online courses for scientists, and free educator resources.

Formed by a partnership of U.S Federal agencies, ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

Provides access to public databases and software tools for analyzing biological data, as well as performing research in computational biology.

News, tools, books, resources and web applications for molecular and cell biologists.

Interactive tutorials and problem sets for studying cells, mitosis, meiosis, the cell cycle, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, & viruses. Developed at The University of Arizona.

Freely available main collection of enzyme functional data for the scientific community. The enzymes are classified according to the Enzyme Commission list of enzymes. Enzymes from 6877 different EC numbers are covered.

Freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms.

Informational resource for cell and molecular biologists.

Single worldwide repository of information about the 3D structures of large biological molecules, including proteins and nucleic acids. Users can perform simple and complex queries on the data, analyze, and visualize the results.

Open access e-prints in quantitative biology, covering biomolecules, cell behavior, genomics, molecular networks, subcellular processes, and more.

International network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

Online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests. By harnessing cutting-edge technology, GFW allows anyone to access near real-time information about where and how forests are changing around the world.

Canadian institute that champions global sustainable development through innovation, research and relationships spanning the entire world.

Hosts and provides public access to one of the most significant archives for environmental data on Earth.

Learn about the NSF's evolutionary and ecological research on species, populations, communities and ecosystems, across all spatial and temporal scales.

Learn about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's leading-edge research to fulfill its mission to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment.

Offers access to more than 15,000 items, from real-time data tools and platforms to key reports, publications, fact sheets, interactives and more.

Free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints on the subject of evolutionary biology. Articles are NOT peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online.

International collaboration of research groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute, whose goal is to build a comprehensive parts list of functional elements in the human genome,

Collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program.

Online activities, labs, experiments, and workshops for students, teens, and all others curious about genetics. By The Genetic Science Learning Center at The University of Utah.

A glossary of genetic terms developed by the National Human Genome Research Institute. In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to related terms.

Experts and amateurs contribute to this site about biodiversity, aiming to provide information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct.

Articles, interactive investigations, research profiles, and comics teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology.

Developed so students can better understand the complex processes that occur in embryologic development.

Invaluable tool for learning the basics of human reproduction.

Illustrated atlas of human embryology, which presents all 23 Carnegie Stages of development during the 8-week embryonic period.