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Texas Gateway: Hypothesis

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know how to write a good hypothesis? This tutorial will walk you through the process of writing a hypothesis.
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Texas Gateway: Question and Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial reviews over making observations to form questions and purpose for a lab experiment.
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Texas Gateway: Types of Science Investigations

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial will describe the three types of scientific investigations: descriptive, comparative, and experimental.
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Texas Gateway: Conclusions and Scientific Explanations

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial explores how conclusions are drawn in the different types of scientific investigations.
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Texas Gateway: Scientific Reasoning

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know how to evaluate scientific information? This tutorial reviews how to read and interpret scientific research and information.
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Texas Gateway: Cell Comparisons

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the difference between eukaryotes and prokaryotes in this interactive tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: Cell Processes: Respiration

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the process of cellular respiration in this tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: Cell Homeostasis: Osmosis

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how water flows in and out of solutions in this interactive tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: Virus: Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial investigates viruses. Learn about the flu, HIV, and how they can be treated with vaccines.
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Texas Gateway: Virus: Reproduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Get an inside look at how viruses reproduce in a host cell in this tutorial. Tutorial explores both the lytic and lysogenic cycle.
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Texas Gateway: Virus: Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever had a cold? flu? chicken pox? These diseases are all caused by a nonliving particle called a virus. This tutorial reviews the structure of a virus.
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Texas Gateway: Cell Specialization and Differentiation

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know that all cells start from one single cell? Cells become specialized through a process called differentiation.This tutorial explores cell specialization and differentiation.
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Texas Gateway: Disruptions of the Cell Cycle: Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how a disruption in the cell cycle can cause cancer in this tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: Mechanisms of Genetics: Protein Synthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial investigates protein synthesis. Learn about the steps of transcription and translation that take place to form a protein.
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Texas Gateway: Protein Synthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
Protein synthesis is a complicated process. Use this tutorial to work through the steps to understand how this process produces proteins.
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Texas Gateway: Genetic Mutations

For Students 9th - 10th
What causes a genetic mutation? What is the effect of these mutations? Learn about genetics mutations in this tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: Monohybrid and Dihybrid Crosses

For Students 9th - 10th
What is the probability that a baby will be a boy or a girl? Learn how to do monohybrid and dihybrid crosses in this interactive tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: Evidence for Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Get ready to create your own definition based on scientific knowledge of evolution in this tutorial! This tutorial specifically explores the fossil record, cell's evolution, and homologies.
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Texas Gateway: Mechanisms of Evolution Beyond Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
Gene pools can change as a result of genetic drift and other mechanisms. This tutorial will investigate how gene pools change and evolve.
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Texas Gateway: Taxonomy Standards

For Students 9th - 10th
What's in a name? Learn about how organisms are named and organized in this interactive tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: Taxonomy: Major Groups

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know that organisms are classified into different categories? This tutorial will show you how organisms are classified into three different groups called domains. Then see how those domains are broken down into kingdoms!
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Texas Gateway: Energy and Matter in Cells

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial explores how organisms use energy to grow.
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Texas Gateway: Enzymes

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate how enzymes facilitate chemical reactions that happen in the body with this tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: The Role of Enzymes

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore enzymes in this tutorial.