Division of Biology

Some additional reading on Energetics (Module 5)

Diffusion and Transport

Transport of Small Molecules - a tutorial to help you understand membrane transport phenomena
A Transport tutorial from Minnesota
Animation of active transport, from YouTube.
A local tutorial to help you sort out diffusion, osmosis, and other cellular transport phenomena.

Respiration and photosynthesis

Animated version of Cellular Respiration
A tabular summary of cellular respiration - for review
Extracting Energy from Glucose - Explanations and diagrams to help you understand aerobic and anaerobic metabolism
An animated look at Glycolysis
An animated look at the Krebs Cycle
An animated look at mitochondrial electron transfer phosphorylation
Photosynthesis - Explanations about this unique process, at varying levels of complexity. From Arizona State University.
Photosynthesis explained - a gorgeous video from the Virtual Cell folks at Harvard University
Photosynthesis -You read the book, now you can see "The movie." But you'll have to wait if you want the video!
Do-it-yourself Glycolysis - An award-winning tutorial from The University of Leeds in the UK
A photosynthesis tutorial for your own PC - Download this zip file, unzip it into its own subdirectory, and run the pc-tutor.exe program. An excellent tutorial from the University of Illinois.
The light-dependent reactions (aka light reactions) of photosynthesis in animated form.
The light-independent (aka carbon) reactions of photosynthesis in animated form.
Another animation of ATP synthase in action

Alternative life styles - Fungal and Archaeal Biology

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