Genetics

Other languages: French.

• A Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms A fairly bare-bones web site that features readable definitions to the technical language of genetics.
• A Question of Genes: Inherited Risk Explores the social, ethical and emotional consequences of genetic cloning. Includes a teacher's guide. From PBS.
• Beyond Discovery, Designer Seeds Explains how and why scientists create genetically engineered plants, particularly those resistant to herbicides, pests, and diseases. Note: one of the sponsors of this site is a chemical company.
• Cat Fanciers: Color Genetics Explains the genes behind cat coat colors including: whites, Siamese and Burmese, Abbyssinian, bicolors, and tricolors.
• Discovering Genetics Includes animated clips, lessons and quizzes about genetics and heredity.
• DNA from the Beginning Information and pictures about classical genetics, molecules of genetics, and genetic organization and control.
• DNA Interactive An interactive project to explore DNA. Has historic timeline, talks about how DNA science may be applied to healthcare, and delve into the mysteries of our species' past, shows its code and possible manipulations, dicoveres the genome.
• DNA: The Instruction Manual for All Life An online exhibit from the Tech Museum of Innovation that explains how DNA works and what its job is
• Fugue No. 9: E Major Interactive Director movie comparing a fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach to the structure of DNA.
• Genetic Science Learning Center How does genetics affect our lives? Online activities, labs, experiments, and workshops for students, teens, and all others curious about genetics.
• Human's Playground: Genetic Engineering Explains the history, basic biology, and the controversy surrounding genetic engineering.
• OLogy: The Gene Scene Defines genetics, explains DNA, discusses cloning, and looks at genetic engineering. Includes activities.
• Snapshots of Science and Medicine Research in the news, researcher profiles, and societal impacts.
• Tech Topics: Genetics Features explanations and activities on DNA, forensic science and cloning.
• The Human Genome Project: Exploring Our Molecular Selves Looks at the history of genes, and how they can help medicine in the future.
• What Can Our Chromosomes Tell Us? Interactive karyotyping activity, in which you can determine if different individuals have specific genetic diseases or not.
• Whose Genes? Guide to genetic engineering. What is it? Should you be worried? Is it okay? Is it for need or for greed?
• Your Genes Your Choices Describes basic genetics as well as the legal, social, and ethical implications of increasing genetic knowledge.