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Smith, Nadia. 2012. Bioinformatics Learning Tutorial (BLT). Educational interactive tutorials and 3D animations for Replication, Transcription, and Translation for First year college biology. (http://www.cs.transy.edu/nsmith ... Download http://www.cs.transy.edu/nsmith/BLT_Windows.zip Windows version and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code . This also requires http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/ Qt libraries). Lexington, KY: Transylvania University.

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Bray, Heather. 2012. Decoding the Dance of the Chromosomes. June 21. blogs.scientificamerican.com

Brown, Mark. 2012. [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/fundamentals-of-biology-ocw-scholar.htmlFundamentalsofBiologynowavailablein OCW Scholar format Course is the last of seven OCW has published this year specifically to meet the needs of independent learners]. September 6. Cambridge, MA: MIT OpenCourseWare.

HarperDog. 2012. Do It Yourself Biology Research, Past and Present. science.slashdot.org.

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Campbell, Neil A., Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Robert B. Jackson. 2008. Biology. (8th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Benjamin Cummings.

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