Here is a list of Basic Concept posts in Biology.
Recently Added: The Pharyngula Stage by PZ Myers at Pharyngula; Biomes VII: Temperate Forest by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate; Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosome Adam, by Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority
Botany
Development
- The Pharyngula Stage by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
- Gastrulation in Vertebrates by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
- Gastrulation in Invertebrates by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
- Neurulation by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
- Cell migration by Dan, at Migrations
Ecology
- What is Ecology? by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
- Biomes I by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
- Biomes: Tropical Rain Forest by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
- Biomes III: Tropical Dry Forest by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
- Biomes IV: Tropical Savannah by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
- Biomes V: Deserts by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
- Biome VI: Temperate Grassland by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
- Biomes VII: Temperate Forest by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
- Conservation versus Preservation by Joshua Rosenau at Thoughts from Kansas
Evolution
- Evolution by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- The Many Faces of 'Evolution' by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
- The Three Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Natural Selection by Greg Laden
- Modes of Natural Selection by Greg Laden
- What makes Natural Selection an adaptive process? by Carl Bajema at Evolving Thoughts
- Artificial and Natural Selection by Mike the Mad Biologist
- Sexual Selection by Razib at Gene Expression
- Human Evolution 1001 by Greg Laden
- Fitness by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
- Measuring Fitness by Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority
- Primitive by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
- Macroevolution by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
- Ancestors by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
- Why Spiders aren't Insects, parts I, II, III, IV, and V by Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate
- Allopatry and sympatry by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
- Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosome Adam, by Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority
Genetics
- Gene by PZ Myers at Pharyngula
- What is a Gene? by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- Gene by Greg Laden
- New definitions of a Gene by Allen McNeill at The Evolution List
- The Richard Dawkins Definition of a Gene Is Seriously Flawed by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- The Genetic Code by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- ABO Blood types by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- Genetics of ABO Blood types by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- Genetics of Eye Color by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- How do you sequence a Genome? Parts I, II, III, IV, V, and VI by Ask Dr Science at Discovering Biology in a Digital World
- Linkage Disequilibrium by Razib at Gene Expression
- Mutations by evolgen at Coalescence
- Allele by Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority
- 8th Grade Math (Hardy Weinberg, Genetic Variance, Molecules and Phylogenies, Kin) by Razib at Gene Expression
Microbiology
Molecular Biology
- Collagen by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- How Proteins Fold by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- Heat Shock and Molecular Chaperones by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
- What are Hypothetical and Putative Proteins? by Ask Dr Science at Discovering Biology in a Digital World
- Artifacts and Vectors by Ask Dr Science at Discovering Biology in a Digital World
- Prions by Shelley at Retrospectacle
Taxonomy
- Clade by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
• Species by John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts
Zoology
Other
- Biological Clock by Bora Zivkovic at A Blog Around the Clock
- Anisogamy by Matt, at Behavioral Ecology Blog
- Hearing by Shelley at Retrospectacle
- How do we smell? by Sunil at balancing life.
- Cell Theory by Dan at Migrations
- Blood Clotting by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
Teaching resources for biology
Bora Zivkovic at A Blog Around the Clock has a series of lectures as posts that teachers may find useful, his BIO101 speed-course lecture (and lab) notes. Almost none of them cover a very narrow term or concept (some come close):
• Introduction
• Biology and the Scientific Method
• Lab 1
• Cell Structure
• Protein Synthesis: Transcription and Translation
• Cell-Cell Interactions
• Cell Division and DNA Replication
• Lab 2
• From Two Cells To Many: Cell Differentiation and Embryonic Development
• From Genes To Traits: How Genotype Affects Phenotype
• From Genes To Species: A Primer on Evolution
• What Creatures Do: Animal Behavior
• Organisms In Time and Space: Ecology
• Lab 3
• Origin of Biological Diversity
• Evolution of Biological Diversity
• Current Biological Diversity
• Lab 4
• Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology
• Physiology: Regulation and Control