Biology Basics

Here is a list of Basic Concept posts in Biology.

Recently Added: The Pharyngula Stage by PZ Myers at Pharyngula; Biomes VII: Temperate Forest by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate; Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosome Adam, by Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority

Botany

Development

• The Pharyngula Stage by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
• Gastrulation in Vertebrates by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
• Gastrulation in Invertebrates by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
• Neurulation by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
• Cell migration by Dan, at Migrations

Ecology

• What is Ecology? by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
• Biomes I by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
• Biomes: Tropical Rain Forest by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
• Biomes III: Tropical Dry Forest by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
• Biomes IV: Tropical Savannah by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
• Biomes V: Deserts by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
• Biome VI: Temperate Grassland by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
• Biomes VII: Temperate Forest by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
• Conservation versus Preservation by Joshua Rosenau at Thoughts from Kansas

Evolution

• Evolution by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• The Many Faces of 'Evolution' by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
• The Three Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Natural Selection by Greg Laden
• Modes of Natural Selection by Greg Laden
• What makes Natural Selection an adaptive process? by Carl Bajema at Evolving Thoughts
• Artificial and Natural Selection by Mike the Mad Biologist
• Sexual Selection by Razib at Gene Expression
• Human Evolution 1001 by Greg Laden
• Fitness by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
• Measuring Fitness by Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority
• Primitive by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
• Macroevolution by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
• Ancestors by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
• Why Spiders aren't Insects, parts I, II, III, IV, and V by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
• Allopatry and sympatry by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
• Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosome Adam, by Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority

Genetics

• Gene by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
• What is a Gene? by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• Gene by Greg Laden
• New definitions of a Gene by Allen McNeill at The Evolution List
• The Richard Dawkins Definition of a Gene Is Seriously Flawed by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• The Genetic Code by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• ABO Blood types by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• Genetics of ABO Blood types by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• Genetics of Eye Color by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• How do you sequence a Genome? Parts I, II, III, IV, V, and VI by Ask Dr Science at Discovering Biology in a Digital World
• Linkage Disequilibrium by Razib at Gene Expression
• Mutations by evolgen at Coalescence
• Allele by Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority
• 8th Grade Math (Hardy Weinberg, Genetic Variance, Molecules and Phylogenies, Kin) by Razib at Gene Expression

Microbiology

Molecular Biology

• Collagen by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• How Proteins Fold by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• Heat Shock and Molecular Chaperones by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
• What are Hypothetical and Putative Proteins? by Ask Dr Science at Discovering Biology in a Digital World
• Artifacts and Vectors by Ask Dr Science at Discovering Biology in a Digital World
• Prions by Shelley at Retrospectacle

Taxonomy

• Clade by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
  
  • Species by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts

Zoology

Other

• Biological Clock by Bora Zivkovic at A Blog Around the Clock
• Anisogamy by Matt, at Behavioral Ecology Blog
• Hearing by Shelley at Retrospectacle
• How do we smell? by Sunil at balancing life.
• Cell Theory by Dan at Migrations
• Blood Clotting by Larry Moran at Sandwalk

Teaching resources for biology

Bora Zivkovic at A Blog Around the Clock has a series of lectures as posts that teachers may find useful, his BIO101 speed-course lecture (and lab) notes. Almost none of them cover a very narrow term or concept (some come close):

• Introduction

• Biology and the Scientific Method

• Lab 1

• Cell Structure

• Protein Synthesis: Transcription and Translation

• Cell-Cell Interactions

• Cell Division and DNA Replication

• Lab 2

• From Two Cells To Many: Cell Differentiation and Embryonic Development

• From Genes To Traits: How Genotype Affects Phenotype

• From Genes To Species: A Primer on Evolution

• What Creatures Do: Animal Behavior

• Organisms In Time and Space: Ecology

• Lab 3

• Origin of Biological Diversity

• Evolution of Biological Diversity

• Current Biological Diversity

• Lab 4

• Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

• Physiology: Regulation and Control