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What Are the SPO Virtual Classrooms?
Science Prof Online offers FREE fully-developed science curricula, including the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom (featured on this page), the Virtual Microbiology Classroom, and, the Virtual Anatomy & Physiology Classroom, each with materials used in real, live high school and college science classes.
Virtual Cell Biology Classroom
from Science Prof Online
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Image of eukaryotic cell. For labeled diagram of same cell, click here.
- Cells - song by They Might Be Giants
- Golgi Apparatus - song by Phish
- Cell's Alive interactive cell biology website
- John Kyrk Cell Biology Animations
- The Biology Project: Cell Biology, from University of Arizona
SPO VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS
Virtual Cell Biology Classroom Lecture Topics
Each title below is a link to all of the SPO course materials on that particular subject. New chemistry lectures have been added for Fall 2014. Instructors can find all cell biology lectures, old and new, on the VCBC Instructor's Corner page.
Topic 1 - Introduction to Cell Biology
Topic 2 - Atomic Theory & the Periodic Table
Topic 3 - Chemical Bonds, Reactions & Notation
Topic 4 - Chemistry of Solutions
Topic 5 - Acids, Bases, Buffers & pH
Topic 6 - Organic Chemistry Basics
Topic 7 - Prokaryotic Cells
Topic 8 - Diffusion, Osmosis & Active Transport
Topic 9 - Eukaryotic Cells
Topic 10 - Enzymes
Topic 11 - Metabolism: Aerobic Respiration
Topic 12 - Metabolism: Anaerobic Respiration & Fermentation
Topic 13 - Metabolism: Catabolism of Proteins & Fats
Topic 14 - Molecular Genetics: DNA Replication
Topic 15 - Molecular Genetics: Transcription & Translation
Topic 16 – Cell Cycle: Mitosis
Topic 17 – Cell Cycle: Meiosis
The Virtual Classrooms are organized by lecture into several topics, each lecture topic typically includes free:
- PowerPoint lectures
- study guide
- class note articles
- practice test & review questions
- homework assignments
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The VBC offers
homework assignments
based on Radiolab podcasts.
RADIOLAB PODCASTS:
"Inheritance" Podcast
"Henrietta's Tumor" Podcast
"Yellow Fluff" Podcast
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:
- "Inheritance"
- "Henrietta's Tumor"
- "Yellow Fluff"
Page last updated 5/2016
" What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt
Held in cohesion by unresting cells,
Which work they know not why, which never halt,
Myself unwitting where their Master dwells.
I do not bid them, yet they toil, they spin
A world which uses me as I use them"
John Masefield
(1878 – 1967))
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