What Is Life? – University of Michigan Site
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/life/life.html&edu=elem
Astrobiology Magazine –Life’s Working Definition: Does It Work?
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article428.html
Astrobiology Magazine- Defining Life
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article344.html
The Definition of Life –Article by Joseph Morales
http://baharna.com/philos/life.htm#defining
Microbiology Web Links
http://www.dragonflyenterprises.org/MolecularBiology02/websites.htm
The Code of Live: Entire NOVA episode in online in segments—Look at introduction
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/program.html
Introduction to the Archaea—
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaea.html
This is an online source from U.C. Berkeley that offers an excellent introduction to extremophiles.
Mysterious red cells might be aliens
CNN Article
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02/red.rain/index.html
By Jebediah Reed Popular Science
Friday, June 2, 2006; Posted: 12:36 p.m. EDT (16:36 GMT)
Scientists have yet to identify these unusual red particles.
(PopSci.comexternal link) -- As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens.
In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain microbes from outer space.
