IB Resources

In here, you will find links to help further and improve the understanding and knowledge of each unit.

IB Biology Standards Resources:

Introduction to Chemistry:

For this webpage, focus on Table 2.2: The most common and important elements in the human body. This is one of the IB Standards that the textbook doesn't cover:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/b/mbt102/bisci4online/chemistry/chemistry1.htm

This website covers more than what we cover in class. However, it nicely lays out the basic chemistry needed to understand biology. The first three sections are highly recommended. http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biochemistry/tutorials/chemistry/main.html

Characteristics of Living Things:

Exploratorium LP: http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging-station/activities/classroom/characteristics/ca_characteristics.php

Characteristics in Accordance with the Campbell Textbook: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~klathrop/7characterisitcs_of_life.htm

Water:

I have pulled in all the water video clips that I thought were either very informational/or too cool from the Water Lecture into this section:

Intro to Water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ASLUY2U1M-8

Capillary Action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc9gUm1mMzc&feature=player_embedded

Slow Mo Guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-cXzZt2iVk&feature=player_embedded

Jesus Christ Lizard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynk4vJa-VaQ&feature=player_embedded

Water Moderating Heat: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/oceans_weather_climate/media/specific_heat.swf

Properties of Water: http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/propertiesofwater/water.html

Evaporation and Cooling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNyoeoHVnio&feature=player_embedded

Buffers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NJyAme5GVF8

Buffer Simulation: http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/essentialchemistry/flash/buffer12.swf

Macromolecules:

Here are some basic overview of the four macromolecules:

http://bioporject.tripod.com/id1.html

http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/biol/dehydrat/dehydrat.html: dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis animation

http://www.cengage.com/biology/discipline_content/animations/reaction_types.html: narrated animation

Cells:

http://www.cas.miamioh.edu/mbi-ws/microscopes/types.html: a great summary of the different types of microscopes.

http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/3dcell.htm: an interactive way of identifying cell organelles/structure of prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Medizin/Anatomie/workshop/EM/EMAtlas.html: you want to go micrograph crazy? here's some great pictures.

Membrane Structure & Function

Membrane Transport Overview: http://www.wiley.com/college/pratt/0471393878/instructor/animations/membrane_transport/index.html

Tonicity Molecular Modeling: http://vimeo.com/4570302

Facilitated Diffusion: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_facilitated_diffusion_works.html

Active Transport with Sodium-Potassium Pump: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_the_sodium_potassium_pump_works.html

Enzymes

Enzyme Introduction Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTUm-75-PL4

Gibb's Free-energy and Enzymes: http://www.bio.miami.edu/tom/courses/bil255/bil255goods/05_enzymes.html

Positive and Negative Feedback from Menstrual Cycle: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/9834092339/student_view0/chapter46/positive_and_negative_feedback.html

Cellular Respiration/Photosynthesis

Khan Academy: Overview of Cellular Respiration: http://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/cellular-respiration/v/introduction-to-cellular-respiration

Intro to Cellular Respiration: http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/bio_animations/MH01_CellularRespiration_Web/index.html

Glycolysis: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072507470/student_view0/chapter25/animation__how_glycolysis_works.html

Krebs Cycle: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072507470/student_view0/chapter25/animation__how_the_krebs_cycle_works__quiz_2_.html

Krebs Cycle: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072507470/student_view0/chapter25/animation__electron_transport_system_and_atp_synthesis__quiz_1_.html

Intro Electron Transport Chain: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072507470/student_view0/chapter25/animation__electron_transport_system_and_formation_of_atp__quiz_2_.html

Advanced Electron Transport Chain: http://vcell.ndsu.edu/animations/etc/movie-flash.htm

Overview of Cellular Respiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcu_8URp4Ac

How NAD Works: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072507470/student_view0/chapter25/animation__how_the_nad__works.html

How ATP Synthase Works: http://vcell.ndsu.edu/animations/atpgradient/movie-flash.htm

Mitosis/Meiosis

Molecular Genetics Tutor (covering topics from cell cycle to biotechnology): https://halo.umbc.edu/molgent/intro

Overview of the Cell Cycle: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_the_cell_cycle_works.html

Mitosis: http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/mitosis.html

motor proteins for how chromatids are separated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOeJwQ0OXc4

DNA wrapping w/ narration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPcT1uUZiE&list=PL3E70DE33C1CB55D1

Harvard Cell Animation w/ music and narration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzcTgrxMzZk

Harvard Cell Animation w/ just narration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GigxU1UXZXo

Molecular Machinery w/ just music (has ATP synthase, anaphase, and telophase): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ4N0iSeR8U

Cytokinesis in Animals and Plants: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/9834092339/student_view0/chapter10/animation_-_cytokinesis.html

Cytokinesis in Plants only: http://sites.sinauer.com/cooper5e/animation1606.html

Onion Cell Lab: http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/assignment.html

CrashCourse: Meiosis-Where the sex starts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCLmR9-YY7o

Great DNA replication animation http://www.stolaf.edu/people/giannini/flashanimat/molgenetics/dna-rna2.swf

Meiosis Animation: https://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter28/animation__how_meiosis_works.html

Meiosis Animation: http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/meiosis.html

Sex and Evolution: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/evolution/sexual-reproduction/

Life Cycle of Angiosperms: http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/angiosperm.html

Life Cycle of Byrophytes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kY7uzeYWFc

Molecular Genetics:

Drawing a Nucleotide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLlbvyIwPE4

DNA structure: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073383198/student_view0/chapter2/animation_quiz_-_dna_structure.htmlO

DNA Discovery Timeline: http://www.dnai.org/timeline/index.htmlOswald Avery: http://www.dnaftb.org/17/animation.html

Meselson-Stahl Experiment: http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/meselson.htmlHershey-Chase Experiment: http://bcs.whfreeman.com/hillis1e/#667501__680858__

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