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
• The Virtual Lab Book (College of Charleston)
• 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
  • Amphibian Embryology Tutorial
  • AmphibiaWeb
  • Araneae
  • Carpenter Bees
  • Cetaceans
  • Chordata
  • Horses
  • 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)
• The Biology Project-Human Biology (U. of Arizona)
• The Digital Anatomist Project (U. of Washington)
• The Heart: An On-line Exploration
• 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

• 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.org

• National Audubon Society

• New Reptile Database

• Peterson Online (Field guides)

• Red List (endangered and threatened animals)

• San Diego Zoo

Publications (Databases/E-Journals)

• The Condor: An international journal of avian biology (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)
• ScienceDirect is a database of 650 journals in physical science and citations and other content from journals and books in other disciplines.  This database is available online to Palomar College students, faculty, and staff-passwords required off-campus.
• 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 Heritage Library
• Biographies of Biologists
• Biology Links (Harvard Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology)
• Darwin Correspondence Project
• Darwin Online (digital collection)
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Univ. Copenhagen)
• Kimball's Online Biology Text
• Natural History Reference Sources (Univ. Washington)
• Nearctica.com - The Natural World of North America
• Online Biology Book
• Tree of Life
• UBIO (Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer)
• The Virtual Lab Book (College of Charleston)

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