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Project Noah. Creatures of Light. Virtual Cell Animations. Molecules. 3D4 Medical's Images. HudsonAlpha iCell. The Virtual Bacterial ID Lab. Click and Learn. Click & Learn Comparing features of a 4.4-million-year-old fossil skeleton to those of human and chimpanzee skeletons sheds light on our evolutionary history. This survey, developed by Horne and Ostberg, will let you determine if you are a morning or an evening person. Answer the questions in this online quiz to test your knowledge of what determines the sex of a human, a fruit fly, and a snapping turtle. Paleoanthropology provides an excellent example of the scientific process at work. Learn about the nature of vector-borne diseases, and the life cycle of the dengue vector mosquito. Answer interactive questions to explore the logic of the Virochip microarray design, particularly how evolutionary relationships can be used to detect new viruses.

Explore principles of taxonomy by sorting seashells according to their morphological characteristics and constructing an evolutionary tree. Learn why verifying a person's gender may be harder than you think. Learn about artificial and natural selection.