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AWLS - Annotated Web Links Set - Domains of Life Links
Compiled by David Denning, BioMEDIA ASSOCIATES

A Great starting point for the study of early evolution on Planet Earth.
©2003-2006 BioMEDIA ASSOCIATES (May be copied for single classroom use)
Updated - Sept, 2006

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Dom 001

Search the world wide web for information on biodiversity
http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/

http://www.nbii.gov/issues/biodiversity/

Biodiversity on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity

Biodiversity Hotspots
http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots

Dom 002

You can find an evolutionary timeline on the internet:
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/geo_timeline.html

Dom 003

Learn more about early multicellular animals that lived before the Cambrian Period on the following web site:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/critters.html

Dom 004

Link to papers on dating and the age of the earth.
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-youngearth.html

Dom 005

A fascinating interview with Dr. Stanley Miller, who carried out the first experiments simulating the early chemical conditions on earth canbe found on the web at:
http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/NM/miller.html

Dom 006

Lecture on Molecular evolution
http://drnelson.utmem.edu/evolution.html

Dom 007

Want to win over a million dollars? There °s acontest for proposing a plausible pathway for the origin of life at:
http://www.us.net/life/

Dom 008

Link to mini-lessons on the Origin of Life and Evolution
http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/orig.fs.html

Dom 009

Try a tutorial on Evolution:
http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/p.tut.db.html

Dom 010

You can learn more about Archaea at the following web sites:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaea.html
Starting point with links to Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota

http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~stevenjr/mbi202/archaea202.html

More sites on Archaea:

http://www.microbe.org/microbes/archaea.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Life/archaea.html

Dom 011

For a quick review of the three domains phylogeny of life, and a jump-off point for further research on the topic, visit:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/threedomains.html

Dom 012

Were Bacteria the First Forms of Life on Earth? Read an article by Daniel C. Jeffares, Ph.D. and Anthony M. Poole, Ph.D.
http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/jeffares_poole.html

Dom 013

Compare Archaea and Bacteria
http://ebiomedia.com/teach/Resources/Compare.pdf

Dom 014

As a starting point for learning more about bacteria, visit:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/bacteria.html

http://www.microbes.info/

Dom 015

Read two articles on Eukaryotic evolution:
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article243.html


http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/032658599v1

Dom 016

A difficult but complete article about ribosomal RNA evidence concerning the early evolution of life:
http://drnelson.utmem.edu/evolution.html

Dom 017

For an expanded treatment of the information on the Domains of Life and the evolution of eukaryotes check the following site:
http://www.icp.ucl.ac.be/~opperd/private/m_e_index.html

Dom 018

See the article: "Evolution is a Fact and a Theory" at
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html

Dom 019

For an excellent overview of the study of evolution, visit:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-intro-to-biology.html

Dom 020

An overview by the National Academy of Science:

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/evol2.html

Dom 021

If you would like to learn more about evolution, start here:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html

Dom 022

Investigate organisms with Chlorophyll A & B on the internet:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/greenalgae/greenalgaesy.html

Dom 023

TEM of Prochloron, an interesting prokaryote with both Chlorophyll A & B:
http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Prochloron

Dom 024

Red alga on the internet:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/rhodophyta.html

Dom 025

Chlorophyll A and C eukaryotes and closely related groups on the internet:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chromista/chromista.html

Dom 026

Review the systemmatics of the Eukaryotes (and lots of informatoin about their evolution) at:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/eukaryotasy.html

Dom 027

You can see phylogenetic relationships determined from molecular evidence by looking at the tree of life at:
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Eukaryotes&controlgroup=Life


OR
http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/accessory/lineages.html

Dom 028

A page about endosymbiosis and the origin of the eukaryotes:
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/E/Endosymbiosis.html

Dom 029

You can find an evolutionary timeline on the internet:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evotmline.html (timeline of evolutionary thought)

Dom 030

For information on the geological time periods:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html



Take a racecar along the highway of time, following the history of the earth: http://www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth/alone/highway.html

Dom 031

Link to papers on dating and the age of the earth.
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-youngearth.html

Dom 032

Quiz on evolution

http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/be12.shtml

Dom 033

A good starting point for evolution study is:
http://nsm1.nsm.iup.edu/rgendron/EvolutionOnTheWeb.shtml

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