Biology 202: Molecular Biology and Genetics
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BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews is a comprehensive biological sciences index. It provides approximately 13 million records from nearly 5,000 life sciences journals and non-journal literature, including conferences, meetings, symposia, review articles, U.S. patents, books, book chapters, and software reviews.
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ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)
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PubMed
Includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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Reference sources
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
This comprehensive encyclopedia of biology contains over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles by leading scientists.
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