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The Scientist is a free online journal of life sciences news, published every 2 weeks. Free registration is required.

A comprehensive General Biology site from the U. of Arizona, high school and college level, with tutorials and problem sets, including some in spanish.

Biology Online is another comprehensive general biology site, not quite complete, but full of good information for users at the high school or introductory college level.

The USGS provides the National Biological Information Infrastructure, with searchable info and links on species and ecosystems.

Microbes.info is a cleanly organized Microbiology information portal with newsfeeds as well as links to many useful resources.

Dennis Kunkel (Microscopy Web) supplies outstanding (but copyrighted) microphotography of microbes, insects, crystals, etc., with much accompanying information.

Microscope Lab is a directory of microscopy websites and online articles.

The Web Atlas of Cell Structures contains dozens of pictures and some professional how-to information, such as cell staining techniques and advice on selecting microscopes and lighting for micrography.

The Phylogeny Tree of Life is an attempt to arrange all known species into one phylogenetic tree at the U. of Arizona. They currently have about 1% of the 1.4 million known species (which is about 10% of the estimated total number of species).

Biodiversity and Conservation is an online book dealing with extinctions, deforestation, captive breeding etc. With links.


The Texas A&M U. Vascular Plant Image Gallery has over 6000 pictures and links to more.

The Internet Directory for Botany provides rapid access to a wide variety of botany resources online.

The Ultimate Tree Ring Web Pages include a primer, photos, the International Tree Ring Database, news, and more.

Volk's Fungi has over a thousand photos of fungi, information, and of course, the Fungi of the Month.

Lichens.com provides information about lichens (the plants researchers in the 40's-60's liked to say might be similar to life found on Mars), with about a hundred photos.


Animal Diversity Web has info on 1600 species, plus hundreds of photos of animal skulls, articles, and more. This searchable site is written by students at the U. of Michigan.

1909-1915 Congo Expedition This digital library site at the American Museum of Natural History is loaded with 2000 photos and 300 watercolors from the expedition by James Chapin and Herbert Lang (you will need Flash 5 to view the images), plus much more information from field notebooks.

ReefBase is a comprehensive online information system on coral reefs. The Reefbase Photo Gallery includes thousands of coral reef related images, taken from underwater, the surface, air, and space.

The Cephalopod Page
Photos of and information about octopuses, squids and the like, with links.
FishBase
A fish database, with information on over 23,000 species.
Insect Images
From the Bugwood Network and the USDA Forest Service, a searchable gallery of over 5400 photos of insects, which are freely available for non-profit use.
Insect Records
The U. of Florida Book of Insect Records lists 39 insect 'records', with explanatory information.
Entomology Links
The Entomology Index of Internet Resources, from Iowa State U., contains over 1200 searchable links to insect information.
Drosophilia FlyBase
FlyBase at Indiana U. is a central storehouse for information on the fruit fly drosophilia, one of biology's supermodel organisms.

Living Reptiles
The web's largest database of reptile taxonomy is from the European Molecular Biology Lab, with information on almost all of the 7900 or so living reptile species, and links to photos of over 1000 of them.
Whole Mouse Catalog
The Whole Mouse Catalog is a guide to Internet resources on this important 'supermodel' organism.
UltimateUngulate.com
Ultimate Ungulates is a website with information about and photos of hoofed mammals. The term 'ungulate' groups together six taxonomic orders, all descended from Condylarthra, an extinct order of hoofed mammals from the upper Cretaceous period (65 million years ago).
WhaleLink.org
This popular site from the Vancouver Aquarium centers on killer and humpback whales, including movies and whale song audio.
WhaleNet
Whale links galore.
Cornell Ornithology Lab
Cornell U. has a bird megasite, with bird FAQs, the bird, sound, and image of the week, population studies, conservation studies, a free email newsletter, and more.

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TIME Magazine, September 6, 1948, p. 66:

SCIENCE: "Dear Teacher..."
Professor Anton R. Zhebrak is a Soviet geneticist who has enjoyed international respect. Like most reputable scientists, he has believed in the Morgan-Mendelian theory of genetics (i.e., hereditary characteristics are controlled by genes which cannot be altered by ordinary environmental conditions). That belief made him a heretic in Russia, where science must take the Communist view that Environment Is All. Last year Zhebrak was roundly denounced by Pravda for admitting in the U.S. weekly, Science, that may Russian geneticists still uphold Mendel's laws (TIME, Sept. 22).

With Zhebrak's capitulation, a debate that has gone on in Russia for over a decade came to an end. Henceforth, all vegetables, flowers and other plants in the U.S.S.R. will grow straight along the Marxian line. Under the vigorous influence of their Communist environment, they will cast off all Western bourgeois tendencies that might make them follow their heredity.

The man who finally won this long-standing argument is Geneticist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, president of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenko rose to his present eminence by being able to make his science toe the party line. Although Lysenko has gained increasing recognition in Russia, most Western and some Soviet geneticists have regarded his party-line genetics as scientifically naive.

This summer, at the eight-day meeting of the Lenin Academy, Lysenko rose to insist on his views once again. Several scientists, including Professor Zhebrak, tried to start the old argument. It was then that Lysenko sprang his big surprise: his theory had been officially endorsed by the Central Committee.

Taking its cue, the Academy hastily dashed off a note to Scientist Stalin: "You, our dear leader and teacher, have helped Soviet scientists day in, day out, to develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society... Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions."

Last week the Academy swung into action. It purged itself of two of its most noted members: Physiologist L. A. Orbeli and Morphologist I. I. Shmalgauzen; liquidated a laboratory on cytogenetics (the study of cell formation), and accused its director, world-famous Geneticist N. P. Dubinin, of having taken "anti-scientific positions." All textbooks on biology were ordered rewritten; teaching will be oriented to the Lysenko doctrine.



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