Useful Websites
- Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy: Science and Photography through a Microscope
- An online collection of micrographs that are works of art. Various insects, bacteria, and crystals are featured, and the text that explains each specimen is excellent. Some features of this exhibit are Image Gallery, Most Wanted Bugs, About Microscopy, Zoom In, and JavaScript SEM. JavaScript SEM creates the illusion of controlling a scanning electron microscope (SEM), an experience worth your time. Every detail of this site has been carefully planned and awaits your visit.
- Virtual Cell
- A series of still images, texts, and movies portray the structure and function of a generic plant cell, as students navigate their way through it. For example, removing the cell wall and then the plasma membrane provides a view of internal organelles. Clicking on the chloroplast brings up an inside view, then close-ups of grana, then photosystems. At each step, a short, simply worded paragraph, often posing questions, describes the structure and how it works.
- Cell Biology Topics
- Links to images and descriptions of organelles.
- Mitochondria Movies
- Three-dimensional images of mitochondria.
- Quia: Java Games
- Learn about cellular organelles while playing matching and concentration games.
- The Biology Project: Cell Biology
- Two tutorials (one on Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes, and Viruses; the other, on the Cytoskeleton) are especially relevant.
- Cells Alive!
- The famous cell site. Learn about various types of cells and the relative sizes of different cell types; view the cell image gallery and more.
- The Virtual Cell Textbook: Cell Biology
- Illustrations and brief descriptions of many cell organelles.
- An Electron Microscopic View of Membranes
- Illustrations of tight junctions, gap junctions, and other cell membrane specializations.
- Junctions between Cells
- A brief discussion of animal and plant cell junctions.
- Online Service for Cell Biology
- Click on the British flag for an English version of this German website that includes photos, videos, and 3-D animations of cells. On the left navbar, click the Search button, then click on the Sitemap link to access animations and discussions of cells and their organelles.
- Scanning Electron Microscope
- An assortment of SEM images not quite relevant to this chapter, but really nice to look at.
- Cells II: Cellular Organization
- This section of M. J. Farabee's well-written online textbook is concerned with the plasma membrane, cell wall, and organelles.
