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BIO 130, FALL 2000

RESOURCES:

Be sure to check out each chapter in the Campbell web site for relevant interesting links- this is a very powerful and useful resource.

Use of Electronic Resources for this course
Campbell 5th Edition CD-ROM
Campbell 5th Edition Web Site, The Biology Place

Amino Acid and Protein Structures:
Be sure that you have the Chime plug-in installed (you can get this from the Internet Toolkit in the bottom right hand corner of the Campbell website).  Netscape Navigator is recommended for viewing Chime files.  Download Chime.  The Chime protein structures (Hemoglobin, Antibody, and MHC, listed below) have useful information on how to use Chime (at the bottom of the screen on the right you'll find a link to Chime's menus).  Basically, if you put the cursor on the molecule and right click, you'll get a pull down menu of options.  The other control you might wish to use is to zoom in or out from a molecule.  To zoom, push "Shift" and the left mouse button, and scroll up and down to zoom in and out (for Macintosh, push "Shift" and the left mouse button).  Play around with it; it is very helpful and fun.

Amino Acid Quizzer:   This program will display the number of amino acids that you specify from an unknown protein, using the Chime "Ball and Stick" format.  The objective is to guess which amino acid(s) you are viewing.  There will be a test question using this site, in which an amino acid or amino acids will be projected, and you have to write down what type of R group you are viewing.

Amino Acid Viewer:  Useful for reviewing amino acid structure.  Especially useful for its side by side comparisons of amino acids.

Chime Structures of Proteins:  One possible test question would be to project one of these structures and ask you a question about what level of structure (primary, secondary, tertiary, quarternary) is being shown.
Hemoglobin
Antibody
MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex)

For fun, check out the roller coaster ride on a folded protein backbone.  You can download this by clicking on the link found at the bottom of "The Molecules of Life- A Bit of History" page.  It takes a few minutes to download, but it's worth it.  Be sure to try to distinguish a helices and b strands as you ride the roller coaster.  WARNING:  This ride can make you feel queasy!

DNA and Base Pair Structures:
Again, be sure that you have the Chime plug-in installed.  Look at the structure of DNA, the localization of the sugar phosphate backbone and the base pairs.  Be prepared to look at a base pair (i.e. a pair of nitrogenous bases that are hydrogen bonded to each other) and to identify each base.

DNA Structure
DNA Base Pair Quizzer

Cell and Organelle Structure:
Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy Site
The Virtual Cell
Cells alive
plus check out the other links on the Campbell website

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