American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Mitochondrial Dna Clarifies Human Evolution (2001)
DNA of the mitochondria has most commonly been used to construct evolutionary trees. New field of population genetics hopes to resolve important questions in migration theories that involve Aboriginies in Australia, North America, and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biomedical Engineering and the Human Body
Human beings are fascinating and complex living organisms-a symphony of different functional systems working in concert. Through a 10-lesson series with hands-on activities students are introduced to seven systems of the human...
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute
This is the home page of the head agency overseeing the Human Genome Project.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna From the Beginning: Mutations Are Changes in Genetic Information
This article explains how and why mutations are so important to genetics.
Other
American Society of Human Genetics: Careers in Genetics
Provides descriptions of the training and career options for professionals in the field of genetics.
Other
Human Genetics Multifactorial Inheritance
On this University of Illinois at Chicago site you can get the importance of multifactorial inheritance, and numerous models to help illustrate the idea. There is a summary at the bottom for review, and an address to send questions to...
Georgetown University
Georgetown Univ.: Scope Note 24, Human Gene Therapy
Georgetown University site with a lengthy article on many aspects of gene therapy. Includes background and historical information and numerous resources on the topic. Focus here is on the ethics of these types of therapies.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Genetic Mutations in Humans
Discusses common mutations that occur in the human population and describes the many different types of genetic mutations and their impact.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Human Inheritance
This illustrated article describes the difference between a genetic trait and a genetic disease/disorder.
BBC
Bbc Mundo: Decodificando a La Humanidad Del Adn
Learn about DNA and decoding the human genome by clicking graphical DNA models. You can also review a timeline that shows important moments in human genetics research. In Spanish.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learn Genetics: Genes and Blood Type
For a concise summary of human blood types, this is a great resource. Discussion includes the topics of genotype, phenotype and agglutinins. There is also a nice pictorial table that summarizes the three blood types.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Scientists Read Chromosomes
Find out how scientists read human chromosomes using three features: size, banding pattern, and centromere position.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Human Genome Project
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A person's genome is all of his or her genetic information. In other words, the human genome is all the information that makes us human. Learn more about the human...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gallery: Human Ancestors
A gallery of information about our human ancestors. Explore this page to find the genetic differences and similarities between humans and other species.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: A Detailed List of Human Races
Describes the four broad categories of human races in the world, their geographical origins, and their sub-types. Also discusses the difficulties of tracing all branches of a race throughout human history, which is even more so today...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 3.19 Human Genome
See how the human genome project sequenced all 3 billion bases that make up our DNA and identified within this code more than 20,000 human genes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
Read an excerpt from the Pulitzer Prize winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies" by Jared Mason Diamond. This book discusses why Eurasian civilizations have survived and conquered others while refuting the idea...
National Health Museum
Nhm: Restriction Maps to Cladograms Lesson
This lesson plan requires young scholars to analyze DNA restriction maps to determine the differences in the sequence for several primates and humans. They then use the information to create a cladogram.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ornl: Genomics and Its Impact on Science
This site from the Human Genome Project for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the index page for chapters which include an introduction to genes, the mapping sequence of genes, and the impact and future of the Human Genome Project.
OneWorld UK
One World: Tiki the Penguin: Genetic Engineering: Whose Genes?
Come along with Tiki the Penguin as he discovers what makes you a human or him a penguin! This site details some of the major issues relative to genetics - such as genetic engineering - in a way that is interesting and relevant to kids.
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute: Talking Glossary: Allele
Resource provides an audio explanation as well as a written definition of what an allele is. Includes illustration as well.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: New Methods for Karyotyping
Read about the findings from the scientific group from the National Center for Human Genome Research, which published a modification to traditional karyotyping that permits rapid identification of chromosomal alterations.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ornl: Genetics Privacy and Legislation
Resource outlines issues related to genetic information and technologies derived from the Human Genome Project. Government policy, legislation and discrimination issues are highlighted.
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute: Talking Glossary: Genotype
Resource provides a definition of "genotype" and a detailed audio explanation of the term, and links to related terms.
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