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A Brief History of the Human Genome Project
- This chapter summarizes human genetics and its history with simple descriptions of modes of inheritance using the commonly-used terms from the genetic literature. It also describes current efforts to create genetic maps and to sequence the 3 billion bases in the human genome.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cbbc/courses/bio4/bio4-1997/16-HumanGenome.html
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Biographies - the Scientists
- Alphabetical list of scientists, including biologists, each with a precis of the scientists life and achievements. Links to deeper and more extensive materials.
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Scients.htm
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Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873)
- Adam Sedgwick was born on March 22, 1785, the third of seven chidren of an Anglican vicar, in Dent, Yorkshire, England. His home life was happy; like so many geologists, young Adam spent time rambling through the countryside, looking at and collecting rocks and fossils. Despite his family's modest means, Sedgwick attended nearby Sedbergh School, and then entered Trinity College at Cambridge University, as a "sizar" -- a type of scholarship student...
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/sedgwick.html
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
- Leeuwenhoek was an unlikely scientist. He came from a family of tradesmen, received no higher education, and knew no languages other than his native Dutch. This would have been enough to exclude him from the scientific community of his time. Yet with skill, diligence, and an open mind free of the scientific dogma, he succeeded in making some of the most important discoveries in biology. It was he who discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protists, and much more.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.html
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Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)
- Though Aristotle's work in zoology was not without errors, it was the grandest biological synthesis of the time, and remained the ultimate authority for many centuries after his death. His observations on the anatomy of octopus, cuttlefish, crustaceans, and many other marine invertebrates are remarkably accurate, and could only have been made from first-hand experience with dissection.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html
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Biography of James Dewey Watson
- Biography of James Dewey Watson from the Nobel Foundation.
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1962/watson-bio.html
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Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
- Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus, is often called the Father of Taxonomy. His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes). His ideas on classification have influenced generations of biologists during and after his own lifetime, even those opposed to the philosophical and theological roots of his work.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
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DNA from the Beginning
- DNA from the Beginning is an animated primer on molecular biology and genetics. It goes through the major discoveries and experiments from Mendel's peas to the 21st century's genetic age of the Human Genome Project.
http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb
Added: 9-Mar-2001 Hits: 2474 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1
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