*Biology Subject Guide: Websites

Database of the NAL, which houses one of the world's largest and most accessible agricultural information collections and serves as the nexus for a national network of state land-grant and U.S. Department of Agriculture field libraries.

From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

From the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.

Browse their historical collections or search for an image.

An academic portal to North American herpetology.

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.

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

Available from the Flora of North America Association, this website houses information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.

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

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

Genetic Science Learning Center from the University of Utah.

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

A collaborative learning space for science by Nature Education.

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