Category: Biochemistry

Learning Resources for the Life Sciences

Cellular Respiration: How cells harvest energy

(This one’s for you, Shiv D.! I hope this is what you were looking for. – Anne) This animation, from McGraw-Hill, explains how metabolism (the chemical reactions involved in converting food to energy) works. View this and other animations from McGraw-Hill at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J4LXs-oDCU  

Get your proteins, carbs and lipids here

This interactive module will teach you all about proteins, carbohydrates and lipids and why chemistry is so important in biology. http://www.abpischools.org.uk/page/modules/chemistryoflife/index.cfm?age=Age%20range%2016-19&subject=Biology For other interactive resources for schools, please visit the ABPI website at: http://www.abpischools.org.uk/  

Heavy metal, gassy or just highly reactive?

Learn all about carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and their (sometimes very unstable) neighbours in this interactive periodic table of the elements. http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table For more resources from the Royal Society of Chemistry, please visit their website at: http://www.rsc.org/   Other related resources: Periodic table (interactive learning module) from Scientific American Periodic table (interactive learning module) from Annenberg Learner    …
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