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Microbial Life in Extreme Environments
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Evolution 101: From Soup to Cells—the Origin of Life part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This page is part of an evolutionary biology tutorial for teachers. It provides an overview of the origins of life. Subsequent pages cover possible mechanisms of abiogenesis, the search for ancient ...
Hot Springs Microbes Hold Key To Dating Sedimentary Rocks, Researchers Say part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a ScienceDaily article about the effect of microbes on sedimentary rock formation. It covers the process of calcium carbonate crystalization, the effect of microbes on that process, and how ...
EvoWiki - Viruses part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is an entry in The Evolution Education Wiki. Topics covered include viral morphology, classification, and education. There are numerous links to related EvoWiki pages, as well as links to ...
Bacteria: Fossil Record part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This description of the fossil record of bacteria focuses on one particular group of bacteria, the cyanobacteria or blue-green algae, which have left a fossil record that extends far back into the ...
Bioinformatics part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This project is a series of interrelated modules designed to introduce the student to modern biological techniques in the area of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is the application of computer ...
Bioinformatics part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This project is a series of interrelated modules designed to introduce the student to modern biological techniques in the area of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is the application of computer ...
Ship Mates part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource, by the Bigelow Laboratory, provides an interactive media for teachers and students to study one of the world’s most biologically productive areas, the Gulf of Maine. From season to ...
From the Top of the World...to the Bottom of the Food Web part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource, by the Bigelow Laboratory, is designed to help teachers and students discover linkages among marine ecology, phytoplankton, the behavior of light at the ocean surface, and ...
Virtual Vacationland part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource, by the Bigelow Laboratory, is designed to help teachers and students find and use web-based Earth Sciences data and information. Content is arranged by topic: land topography, ...
Cycling through the Food Web part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource invites students to participate in a "virtual" scientific research cruise where they use real data to discover the significant role of marine microbes in the ocean’s ...