For the Curious: A learning center for young minds and curious eyes

About chasing curiosity

Natasha's Story

about DNA and spider silk

Links for learning

A Project: DNA and Spider Silk

Spider Anatomy and Learning Center Aids

Web Zoo of Garden Critters

Interesting Links

Chasing Curiosity

How Stuff Works A great place to chase your curiosity.

Getting Started: Basic Biology

Kimball's Biology Pages A great place to explore biology
Basic Spider Biology
K-12 Math and Science Center - SpiderRoom
A good place to get started is at the European Bioinformatics Institute Introduction to cells, genes, biology
Then basic biology, internet-centric style Basic Biology
About Basic Biology
Basic Biology
Microscopy-UK A wonderful dynamic web resource
ABC Science (Austrailia)

Classic DNA/Gene Manuscripts

Spider Stuff, Molecular style

Spider Anatomy

A schematic of a spider silk synthesis: a project at Clemson:

Links to information about the golden silk spider (nephila clavipes)

All about spiders and web construction

All about spider farming

A guide to feeding, silking and handling Nephila Clavipes from Clemson.
A short paper by the Clemson team (pdf)
Biomimetic manufacturing of fibers (pdf)
Spider silk production (pdf)( Dr. Udo Conrad, IPK http://www.ipk-gatersleben.de )

Links for molecular biologists

For musicians

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