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Biology OER

Open Educational Resources for General Biology I and Molecular & Cell Biology
  • Project Profile
  • Glossary
  • Home
  • Biology Basics
    • Microscopy
    • Units of Measure
      • Pipetting Basics
    • Quantitative Skills
    • Reporting on Science
  • Chemistry
    • Chromatography
    • Water
      • pH
        • pH (Activity)
        • pH activity (Vernier)
    • Biologically important Macromolecules
      • Carbohydrates
        • Detection of Carbohydrates (activity)
      • Lipids
      • Proteins
        • Protein detection (activity)
      • Nucleic Acids
        • Nucleic Acids: DNA extraction and Dische’s Diphenylamine test (Activity)
      • Biological Macromolecules (concept)
  • Quantitative Determinations
    • Exploring Beer’s Law (virtual)
    • Quantitative Detection of Protein (activity)
    • Quantitative Detection of Protein (SpectroVis Plus)
    • Enzymes
      • Enzyme Kinetics (activity)
    • Enzyme Kinetics with Spectrovis
  • Osmosis and Diffusion
    • Do Larger Things Diffuse Faster? (Activity)
    • Gummy Bears: Tonicity (Activity)
    • Observing Osmosis (activity)
    • Why are cells small? (activity)
      • Agar Cubes (Preparation)
  • Cellular Respiration
    • Fermentation
    • Cell Respiration (concept)
  • Photosynthesis
    • Hydroponics
    • Photosynthetic Pigments
    • Absorbance Spectra of Photosynthetic Pigments
    • Photosynthesis (concept)
  • Cell Division
    • Mitosis (activity)
    • Modeling Mitosis and Meiosis (Activity)
    • Chromosomes and Karyotypes
  • Analyzing DNA
    • Restriction Enzymes
    • DNA fingerprinting (RFLP)
    • DNA Replication
      • Cheek Cell DNA Extraction
    • Variable Number Tandem Repeats
      • D1S80 VNTR (genotyping)
    • Propagating DNA in Bacteria
      • DNA miniprep by Alkaline Lysis (activity)
    • Sanger Sequencing of DNA
    • Next Gen Sequencing
      • Rapid Sequencing (Nanopore)
  • Genetics
    • Bitter Taste (Activity)
    • Sex-linked Genes
    • Probability and Chi-Square Analysis
    • Non-Mendelian Genetics
    • Precision Medicine
    • Hardy-Weinberg & Population Genetics
    • Mutagenesis
    • Fetching SNPs
  • DNA as the genetic material
    • Bacterial Transformation (activity)
  • Gene Expression
    • Prokaryotic Transcription
    • Selfish Gene
    • Eukaryotic Transcription
      • RNA miniprep (Activity)
    • Quantitative Nucleic Acid Measurement
  • Tracing Origins
    • Maternal Lineage
      • Maternal Lineage (activity)
    • Transposons
      • Alu Insertion (activity)
    • Genetic Admixture
  • DNA Barcoding
    • Barcoding (activity)
    • Metabarcoding
      • 16S Metabarcoding with Oxford Nanopore Sequencing
  • Tissue Culture
  • Genetic Modification
    • GMO Food (activity)
  • Protein Production
    • Protein Purification (activity)
  • Bioinformatics
    • Sequence Analysis
    • In silico Restriction Digestion (activity)
    • In Silico PCR
    • Primer-BLAST
    • Morphometric Analysis
    • Sequence Alignment and Tree Building
    • Sanitation and Public Health

Chemistry

Chemistry

Self-Guided activity: http://phet.colorado.edu/files/activities/3807/BAA-Student-Handout.doc


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Follow the self-guided activity for a review of basic chemistry before continuing to the organic chemistry section.
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This site is maintained by Jeremy Seto. Contact jseto [at] citytech.cuny.edu regarding corrections or comments. Banner image derived from danielcampos, sunshine-91, zhaolifang on vecteezy.com. Customized images and the xml dump at https://github.com/jeremyseto/bio-oer.

Competencies

  • analysis
  • applied knowledge
  • breadth of knowledge
  • cross-cultural communication
  • cultural awareness
  • guided inquiry
  • inquiry
  • integration of knowledge
  • life-long learning
  • quantitative reasoning
  • visual communication
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The OpenLab at City Tech:A place to learn, work, and share

The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at City Tech (New York City College of Technology), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.

New York City College of Technology City University of New York

New York City College of Technology | City University of New York

Support

Help | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Credits

Accessibility

Our goal is to make the OpenLab accessible for all users.

Learn more about accessibility on the OpenLab

Copyright

Creative Commons

  • - Attribution
  • - NonCommercial
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