Palomar College Catalog, Subject Guides and Web pages

• Library Catalog (Find Books & Other Materials at Palomar College Library)

• Life Sciences Department Web page (Palomar College)

DNA & Cells

• Cells Alive!
• Computer Model of the DNA Helix
• DNA From the Beginning
• Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA
• Looking for a Blood Substitute
• The Phylogeny of Life
• The Virtual Cell
• WebMOTIFS (MIT)

• The ASU Photosynthesis Center
• Chlorophyll
• The Photosynthetic Process
• What is Photosynthesis?
• Why Study Photosynthesis?

• Enter Evolution: Theory & History (and notable people)
• Institute of Human Origins
• Diversity of Nature
  • Introduction to the Viruses
  • Phylogenetic systematics
  • The Tree of Life
• Kingdom Monera
  • Introduction to the Archaea
  • The Microbe Zoo
• Kingdom Protista
  • Diatoms
  • Seaweed
• Kingdom Plantae
• Kingdom Anamalia
  • Amphidomorpha
  • Amphibian Embryology Tutorial
  • AmphibiaWeb
  • Araneae
  • Carpenter Bees
  • Cetaceans
  • Chordata
  • Global Entomology Agriculture Research Servers (GEARS)
  • Horses
  • Insect Biology and Ecology
  • The Insect Orders
  • Interactive Frog Dissection
  • Rodentia
  • Ungulates

• Anatomy and Human Physiology links (UW-Stout)
• Anatomy and Physiology links (North Harris College)
• Basal Metabolism (including a metabolic calculator-Discovery Health)
• Bioinformatics Links Directory (Univ. British Columbia)
• The Biology Project-Human Biology (U. of Arizona)
• The Digital Anatomist Project (U. of Washington)
• The Heart: An On-line Exploration
• Human Biology Links (Metropolitan Comm. College)
• Images in Biology (Tyler Junior College)
• Innerbody.com (Human Anatomy Online)
• Muscles In Action
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• The Virtual Pathology Museum
• The Whole Brain Atlas

• AfriCam (descriptions & live videos of African animals)

• AmphibiaWeb

• Animal DiversityWeb (U. of Michigan)

• Animal Info (rare and endangered mammals)

• Arctic Studies Center (Smithsonian)

• Audubon's Birds of America online (Univ. Pittsburgh)

• Crustacean Society

• EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals (Palomar College only - passwords required off-campus)

• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

• FishBase

• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (including ZooBank database)

• International Field Guides (database of field guides)

• International Whaling Commission (IWC)

• PrimateLit

• MarineBio

• National Audubon Society

• New Reptile Database

• Peterson Online (Field guides)

• Red List (endangered and threatened animals)

• San Diego Zoo

Publications (Databases/E-Journals)

• Biology Browser (Thomson free database)
• Bioscience (Palomar College only - passwords required off-campus)
• The Condor: An international journal of avian biology (Palomar College only - passwords required off-campus)
• EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals (Palomar College only - passwords required off-campus)
• JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection (Palomar College only - passwords required off-campus)
• PLOS Biology (Public Library of Science Journals)
• PLOS Computational Biology (Public Library of Science Journals)
• Scirus (Elsevier's free web search engine-scientific sources)
• Additional print and online journals on this topic available from Palomar College.

• American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition 1909-1915
• Animal Rights Subject Guide (Palomar College Library)
• Astrobiology Web
• Biodiversity & Biological Collections
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Biographies of Biologists
• Biology Browser (Thomson free database)
• Biology Links (Harvard Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology)
• Darwin Online (digital collection)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Univ. Copenhagen)
• Kimball's Online Biology Text
• National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
• Natural History Reference Sources (Univ. Washington)
• NatureServe
• Nearctica.com - The Natural World of North America
• Online Biology Book
• Tree of Life
• UBIO (Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer)

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