Helpful life sciences Web sites that define the industry:

There are many on-line resources for students to utilize.  For example, Wikipedia’s Encyclopedia of Life Sciences has over 4,000 articles that relate to the life sciences industry. Here are just a few top picks for on-line science definition resources. 

• http://www.answers.com/topic/biotechnology

• http://www.biotechterms.org

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioscience

• http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Life_Sciences