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This extensive Web site introduces the Exploratorium's Traits of Life collection, a set of biology exhibits and demonstrations that examines the fundamental elements common to all living things. The collection...
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This Web site introduces the structure and nature of life through four different sections: "The Stuff of Life," "Life Needs Energy," "Making More Life," and "Change Over Time." Online exhibits that can...
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This video-rich Web site makes available a wide array of magnified images captured by microscope. Numerous videos illustrate microscopic processes such as cell division by mitosis, embryonic development,...
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Life requires energy to perform basic functions. This resource provides links to four pages that allow exploration of ways that living things acquire energy. In "Energy from Death," videos show dermestid...
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This rich Web site explores many aspects of the science of gardening, including soil chemistry, the history of domesticated plants, the many ways plants propagate, and how plants are bred for desired...
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This collection of activities and background information discusses how your muscles work at the cellular level, helping you understand what makes the muscles of your body contract. The Fatigued Fingers...
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This exhibit presents graphic representations of plant and animal cells, including diagrams, models, and magnified images. Differences between plant and animal cells are highlighted, and principle parts...
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A far-ranging Web site that explores the people, places, tools, and ideas behind the search for the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself. The site covers the European Center for Nuclear Research...
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This photo-rich Web site introduces Las Cuevas, a field research station in the rainforest of Belize run by the Natural History Museum of London. The site focuses on the fieldwork of entomologists, biologists,...
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This is the first of five images showing that eggs from the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus (large eggs) are preferentially fertilized by sperm from the same species. A fertilization membrane forms around...
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