Biology: Websites

The North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox contains detailed descriptions and photographs of 3,633 plants that grow in and around North Carolina.

Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Our mission is to promote the enjoyment and conservation of North Carolina's native plants and their habitats.

Photos and information about the wild things of North Carolina by Will Cook

Budburst brings together researchers, educators, gardeners, and citizen scientists on a shared journey to uncover the stories of plants and animals affected by human impacts on the environment.

a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”

Browse their historical collections or search for an image.

Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and fern allies.

Overview of the many areas that Biology covers, such as cellular biology, microbiology, etc. Good site to gain general information. There is also a section on careers and an extensive glossary of bioscience terms.

Provides indexing for agricultural literature.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries.

Created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, BioSciEdNet is a gateway to online biological educational resources.

A database of Linnean nomenclature for over 1 million species.

A growing, interactive encyclopedia of life that now has 1,297,576 species pages.

This online encyclopedia houses the global effort to gather and share information on all the known species.

Futurity features the latest and most important discoveries from North America’s leading research universities—discoveries that will change the way we live, the way we work, the way we think.

Taxonomic information about all kinds of living things.

-A national resource for molecular biology information.

Extensive list of links to quality web sites. Or you can search them as a group. From the US government.

Provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history.

global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases and portals.

iNaturalist helps you identify the plants and animals around you. Get connected with a community of over 750,000 scientists and naturalists who can help you learn more about nature! What’s more, by recording and sharing your observations, you’ll create research quality data for scientists working to better understand and protect nature. iNaturalist is a joint initiative by the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society.

From the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.

From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

The NC Biodiversity Project is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote public interest in the state’s native species and ecosystems.

The American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) was established in 1919 for the purpose of promoting interest in the study of mammals.

Butterflies and Moths of North America is an ambitious effort to collect, store, and share species information and occurrence data provided by the University of Montana.

An academic portal to North American herpetology.

Database that contains information on all known fish species world-wide.

A Database of Drosophila Genes & Genomes from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the US National Institutes of Health.

Lots of information on marine biology, including animals, environmental issues, biodiversity, etc. From a nonprofit conservation society.

Online interactive resource for learning biology - The University of Arizona.

Up-to-date information on DNA and genetics.

Provided by the National Library of Medicine, Genetics Home Reference contains consumer-friendly information about the effects of genetic variations on human health.

Genetic Science Learning Center from the University of Utah.

a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available and updated daily. OMIM is authored and edited at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Ada Hamosh.

A collaborative learning space for science by Nature Education.

The National Institute of Health resource for stem cell research

An Information Portal to Biological Macromolecular Structures

ExPASy provides access to scientific databases and software tools in different areas of life sciences including biochemistry, bioinformatics, and systems biology.

interactive Pathways Explorer (iPath) is a web-based tool for the visualization and analysis of the complete metabolism in biological systems

Budburst brings together researchers, educators, gardeners, and citizen scientists on a shared journey to uncover the stories of plants and animals affected by human impacts on the environment.

The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries

List and links to all of the National Library of Medicine's free online database and resources.