3D Microscope: Online Virtual Lab
An interactive 3D microscope lab for identifying parts, coarse and fine focusing, changing magnification, adjusting illumination and aperture, moving the image, and exploring image orientation.
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Cell Biology and Microscopy: Models, Labs and Activities
Free cell biology teaching and learning resources, from virtual microscope practice to plant and animal cells, organelles, cell membranes and membrane transport.
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Practise microscopic observation, compare cell structures, then connect the structures in a model with the phenomena in an experiment.
Plant and Animal Cells: 3D Observation Lab
Rotate, section and isolate cell structures, then compare plant and animal cells to connect their structures with their functions.
Open activity →Cell Membrane: 3D Fluid Mosaic Model
Explore phospholipids, the lipid bilayer and membrane fluidity through a rotatable, step-by-step 3D model.
Open activity →Organelle Match: Biology Classroom Game
Recognize the same organelle across different drawings and group matching cards in a three-card matching game.
Open activity →Meet the Cell Factory: Explore Animal Cell Organelles
Find nine glowing hotspots in an animated animal cell, where personified characters introduce organelle structures and functions.
Open activity →Animal and Plant Cell Division
Follow genetic material replication and distribution, then compare cleavage in animal cells with new membrane and wall formation in plant cells.
Open activity →Paramecium Structure and Responses
Explore a 3D paramecium, separate its structures and change stimuli to observe directional responses.
Open activity →Mitosis Step by Step
Observe chromatin condensation and compare the stages of animal and plant cell division in 3D.
Open activity →Acetabularia Experiments: The Cell Nucleus
Predict grafting and nuclear transplantation outcomes, then use experimental evidence to explain nuclear function.
Open activity →Membrane Transport Comparison Lab
Change concentration gradients and transport conditions to compare passive and active transport.
Open activity →Cell Organelles: Explore and Compare
Switch between plant and animal cells, separate and enlarge organelles, and compare their structures and roles.
Open activity →Membrane Transport: Two-Player Biology Quiz
Race through 48 questions using diagrams, animations and graphs to compare diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport, osmosis and vesicle transport.
Open activity →Cell Organelles Working Together: Interactive Lesson
A 23-page interactive biology lesson with organelle 3D models, differential centrifugation, chloroplast observation and the secretory protein pathway. The activity interface is in Simplified Chinese.
Open activity →Osmosis and Passive Transport: 3D Biology Simulation
Compare osmosis, red blood cells, plant cells and plasmolysis, then explore diffusion, channels and carriers in an interactive classroom simulation.
Open activity →Prokaryotic Cells Interactive Classroom — Preview
Compare E. coli and cyanobacteria with eukaryotic cells, focusing on the nucleoid, nuclear envelope and cell classification.
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