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Animals
Humans
Plants
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 The Living World
Providing pupils with notes on GCSE Science. Split into three subject areas and one
dealing with pupil SC1 investigations.
About bread (Age 13-16)
Find out about the chemistry of bread looking at questions such as:
 | What is in a loaf of bread? |
| What does the yeast do? |
| How are enzymes involved in making bread? |
| Why do we add salt? |
For the answers, see Bread Chemistry for a page of lesson notes
from an educational TV program about bread.
Losing weight (Age 16+)
Get a taste of the biochemistry of eating disorders from this readable (Age 16+)
Medical Sciences Bulletin called Serotonin
and Eating Disorders.
| Describe the sequence of events from eating food to serotonin production? |
| What affect does Prozac have on body weight? |
| How are bulimics and anorectics responding to serotonin drugs? |
Monosodium glutamate (Age 16+)
| What is MSG and why is it used in cooking? |
| MSG is wrongly associated with Chinese Restaurant Syndrome. Discuss the evidence in the
article. |
For a good read see this article on MSG
and Chinese Restaurant Syndrome. A link on the page will take you to a section on Food
Additives.
Biochemistry of milk (Age 18+)
Did you know that arsenic, selenium and lead are found as trace elements in milk? This
page about the chemical content of milk is clear and factual:
Milk Minerals and Vitamins.
It covers minerals and vitamins in milk and a link takes you to other sections on the
biochemistry of milk synthesis.
| Why does Guernsey milk have yellow fat? |
| Which mineral is an essential part of vitamin B12? |
| Which minerals are found in higher quantities in milk from cows raised near industrial
works? |
Biochemistry of heme production (Age 18+)
Is iron transported across cell membranes in the ferrous state? To find out and also
about the biochemistry of Heme, iron, membranes and DNA see these advanced level and
undergraduate teaching notes. The very detailed text is broken up with multimedia graphics
and includes a (how-not-to-do-it) multiple choice test. See HREF="http://www.hahnemann.edu/Heme-Iron/NetWelcome.html">NetBiochem
Biochemistry information (age 18+)
Just about everything in science and in particular Biochemistry information. Need to
find out about nucleic acids, pheromones, or proteins? Here are databases on these and
many other biochemicals.
Martindale's
Bioscience Center
Chemistry, biochemistry, health (age 18+)
Discover how much there is to know at this, probably the most comprehensive reference
page for science. Includes links to sites with sun, moon and weather data as well as to
chemistry, biochemistry, health and even traffic reports. It's almost frightening. See
Martindale's Reference Desk
AEB Practicals
A-Level practicals suggested during the September subject support meeting in London
recorded on the Howard of Effingham School Web pages.
Evolution versus Creationism
This site is based on a list of statements made by creationists giving 'evidence'
against evolution. Each statements links to a paragraph which discredits the evidence. For
a creationist's point of view look at The
Natural Limits to Biological Change by Raymond G. Bohlin, Ph.D.
Gene Web
Gene Web is a site for anyone interested in finding out more about the rapidly-changing
science of genetics and aims to provide up-to-date information for schools, colleges and
the general public; e.g. somatic gene therapy, cystic fibrosis trials, nitrogen fixation
genes etc. as well as a very useful glossary.
Many of the materials have been written by school teachers and meet, where appropriate,
the requirements of the UK Science and Biology examination syllabuses.
Genetics Consensus
conference
Information about genetic screening and genetics in general including a'consensus
conference' about , where you can make decisions about acceptable uses for this new
technology.
Jumping off Points for Biologists
Links to Biology related sites
National Centre for Biotechnology Education
Based at the University of Reading, the NCBE has a wide range of resources relating to
biotechnology. Of particular interest may be their plant DNA kit for schools. Uses Acrobat
reader to provide worksheets and high standard reference material (available by post) from
the National Centre for Biotechnology Education at Reading University. For use with the
"Biotechnology" module.
The Virtual Microscope
Based at the department of Biological Sciences at the University of Wales Aberystwyth a
pilot project to support the teaching of the principles and methods of microscopy in the
National Curriculum.
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