Regents Prep Living Environment: Online Resources

Regents Prep: Living Environment
Online Resources

1a. Living vs. Nonliving

Chemical Elements (Yinon Bentor)
Website - This site includes a periodic table where you can click on any element and derive basic information about it.

Institute for Chemistry (Vera Heinau)
Website - Click on any amino acid to see a 3D model and get other information such as molecular formulas.

Living V. Non-living (Dr. Alan C. Kamil)
Lecture notes which discuss characteristics of living things and provides examples of why some non-living things aren't living. Engages debate over whether or not viruses are alive.

Quia Games: Symbols for Chemical Elements (Quia : Dyann Schmidel)
Review - This game familiarizes students with 40 of the most common elements from the Periodic Table along with their symbols.

Reference Guide to Amino Acids (Austin Nutritional Research)
Website - This site offers information about the functions of essential amino acids.

The Biology Project: Biochemistry (Chemistry Tutorial) (University of Arizona)
Website - This site offers a basic tutorial to help biology students in learning about basic chemistry, and includes problem sets.

The Biology Project: Biochemistry (Large Molecules) (The University of Arizona)
Website - This site offers problem sets about common biochemicals, specifically common proteins, with links to tutorials.

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