University of Arizona
The Biology Project: The Chemistry of Amino Acids
A great site for understanding Amino Acids, the building blocks for protein. Besides a very complete summary, the site includes a complete list of amino acids, a link to basic amino acid structure, a list if atoms in amino acids, and...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Reproduction, the Genome and Gene Expression
This lesson focuses on how genes, sections of the DNA, are formed including descriptions of transcription and translation. It provides links to a video and a test.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Animal Organization Digestion Aqa
This lesson focuses on the structures of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids including defining terms, a brief discussion of what they do, and diagrams of each. It also provides a link to a test.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biological Macromolecules
How much do you know about biological macromolecules?
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Exploring Protein 3 D Structure
Build proteins from amino acid components. View the components of a protein (elements, amino acids) in different colors and zoom into several amino acids to understand how they link together to make a larger structure.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 13.9 Translation
Understand the process of reading the mRNA code in the ribosome to make a protein during translation.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 3.7 Protein Synthesis
Learn how the human body builds proteins.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Organic Chemistry
This site from ScienceWorld provides a brief look at some of the more common organic functional groups. The carboxylic acid group is also given. Quite a few links are provided at the bottom of the page for additional information.
Curated OER
Amino Acids
Clickable list of links to descriptions and models of 20 amino acids, including classification and structure.