Chapter 1, Section 1, Science Online Activity

Club Girl Tech has a page devoted to student inventors. Read their stories to find out about their innovation. What motivated these students to become inventors?

http://www.glencoe.com/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/top2.html&link=http://www.girltech.com/Invention/IN_menu_frame.html

Chapter 2 Internet Activity

  http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/activities/lep2002conc/653.php?iRef=653&iChapter=2

Chapter 3 Internet Activity

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/Science600/co/429.php?iRef=429&iChapter=3

Chapter 3 Web Quest

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/content/cloning.shtml

Chapter 4, Section 3, Science Online

Visit this site to find out more about the roles microorganisms play in fermentation, carbonation, and cheese making. What causes the holes found in Swiss cheese?

http://www.glencoe.com/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/top2.html&link=http://www.howstuffworks.com/food-preservation7.htm

  Go to this site to find out how microorganisms are involved in the dairy industry. Scroll down to read about microorganisms in milk. What are lactic acid bacteria? What do they do?

http://www.glencoe.com/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/top2.html&link=http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/micro.html#lab

  At this site you can learn more about the microorganisms involved in making wine out of grapes. Scroll down and read about how red wines undergo a second fermentation. What do malolactic bacteria do during a second fermentation?

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  Chapter 4 Web Quest

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/content/nanotech.shtml

Chapter 5, Section 1, Science Online

Visit this page of the Shedding Light on Science series to learn about what plants do with the sugars they produce. You'll also read about how sugar and starch are related. What are the elements in a molecule of glucose?

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Chapter 5, Section 2, Science Online

Visit this site to understand more about angiosperms and photoperiodism. Review the different types of plants that have different photoperiods. What types of plants are short-day plants and what types of plants are long-day plants?

http://www.glencoe.com/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/top2.html&link=http://www.ultranet.com/%7Ejkimball/BiologyPages/P/Photoperiodism.html

Chapter 5 Web Quest

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/content/phytochemicals.shtml

Chapter 6 Web Quest

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/content/asthma.shtml

Chapter 7 Internet Activity

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/Science600/co/417.php?iRef=417&iChapter=7

Chapter 8, Section 1, Science Online

Neuroscientists from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine are studying the possibility of nerve cell regeneration. The research reported on this page describes the transplant of neurons from adult donor rats into the brains of other adult rats. Where is myelin sheath found in the body?

http://www.glencoe.com/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/top2.html&link=http://www.cwru.edu/pubaff/univcomm/silver.htm

Chapter 9, Section 1, Science Online

Go to this Ohio State University Extension Service Sheet to learn more about dioecious plant species. Scroll down to see photographs of male and female flowers from several dioecious plant species. What are some common dioecious species of trees, shrubs, and vines?

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Chapter 9, Section 3, Science Online

Visit this site to learn about the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. You can find out here what germplasm is and where the NPGS gets its germplasm. Why is it important to keep a collection of all known plant germplasm?

http://www.glencoe.com/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/top2.html&link=http://www.barc.usda.gov/psi/ngrl/seedsfor.htm

At this site by the Canadian Botanical Conservation Network you can find out why storing seeds in seed banks is important to the conservation of plant species. Scroll down to find out what types of seeds can be stored. What types of seeds cannot be stored in a seed bank? Why can’t these seeds be stored in seed banks?

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Chapter 9 Internet Activity

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/Science600/co/431.php?iRef=431&iChapter=9

Chapter 11 Internet Activity

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/Science600/xw/405.php?iRef=405&iChapter=11

Chapter 11, Section 2, Science Online

Visit the What are blood transfusions? page, part of the Genes and Blood Type activity. Complete the table to predict whether or not there will be an agglutination reaction between blood donors and recipients. What is your blood type? What blood types can you receive blood from?

http://www.glencoe.com/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/top2.html&link=http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/basic/blood/transfusions.html

Read the Facts for Life about husbands donating blood to their wives to understand more about research into blood transfusion. Look at the blood compatibility chart at the bottom of the page. Which blood type recipient can receive blood products from the most donors?

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