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Biology

Bodies, cells and the machinery inside them, in layers you can peel back.

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A dissectible 3D human with systems, conditions and procedures layered in. Heavier than Zygote Body and account-gated in places, but the anatomical detail goes further.

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Cell Size and Scale

Visualisation

One continuous slider that zooms from a coffee bean down past a skin cell, a virus and a haemoglobin molecule to a carbon atom. Does more for intuition about scale in thirty seconds than a page of exponents.

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HHMI BioInteractive

Interactive Essay

Click-and-learn modules, data-analysis activities and animations built around real research — evolution, ecology, genetics and infectious disease. Unusually rigorous for free classroom material.

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Learn.Genetics

Interactive Essay

A deep, long-running collection on genetics, cell biology, neuroscience and heredity, with interactive pieces rather than static diagrams throughout. Written for students and holds up for undergraduates.

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Zygote Body

3D Model

A 3D human body you undress layer by layer — skin, then muscle, then vessels, nerves and bone — with any structure clickable for its name. The browser descendant of Google Body.

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