An interactive demo is now available to download, for Windows or Macintosh!! For specific information, you can also download the read-me files--for Macintosh or Windows.

This set of 17 interactive animations is a colorful, compelling way to delve into-and understand-often-challenging subject matter. Some notable new features:

• Pause feature that enables users to halt an animation for an explanation-with labels-of the process occurring at that moment.
• Critical-thinking activities with quizzes, by expert Robert Allen-for enhanced tutorial capabilities.
• Enhanced and larger visuals.
• Hyperlinks between the glossary and related "Explorations" visuals.

Modules

• 1 How Proteins Function: Hemoglobin
• 2 Cell Size
• 3 Active Transport
• 4 Cell-Cell Interactions
• 5 Mitosis: Regulating the Cell Cycle/Metabolism
• 6 Cell Chemistry: Thermodynamics
• 7 Enzymes in Action: Kinetics
• 8 Oxidative Respiration
• 9 Photosynthesis/Genetics
• 10 Exploring Meiosis: Down Syndrome
• 11 Constructing a Genetic Map
• 12 Heredity in Families
• 13 Gene Segregation within Families
• 14 DNA Fingerprinting: You Be the Judge
• 15 Reading DNA
• 16 Gene Regulation
• 17 Making a Restriction Map