PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Alzheimer's Disease
This video segment from the Secret of Life School Video: "Genetic Medicine: Tinkering with Our Genes" explores the potential for gene therapy to cure diseases like Alzheimer's. [2 min, 48 sec]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Human Genome Project
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" looks at the meaning and significance of the effort to decode the human genome. [4:08]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Mutation Story
This video segment describes the role of the sickle cell gene in natural selection. Footage courtesy of the PBS series Secret of Life: "Accidents of Creation." [4:49]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Genetic Influences
This lesson will define gene as well as compare and contrast dominant genes from recessive genes.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Predicting the Inheritance of Traits With Genes
This lesson will discuss how scientists use dominant and recessive genes to predict inherited traits of offspring.
Other
Mitk12 Videos: #Ask Mit: Could You Make a Unicorn by Crossing Dna?
Biologist, Dr. Sera Thornton entertains the question, "Is there any way to make a unicorn by crossing DNA?" [2:46]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Heredity and Genetics: Genetics 101 Part 1: What Are Genes?
Find out about the basics of cells, chromosomes, and the genes contained in your DNA. [4:26]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Gene Switch
In this brief video clip, you will be exposed to the complexities of gene switches and how they work within the body. An overview of teaching clips is included.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Using Small Molecules to Modulate a Protein
This video illustrates how a small molecule binds to a protein. As a result of the binding, the protein alters its shape and becomes inactivated. [1:10]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Diversity of Small Molecules
In this animation, a molecular menagerie of small molecules is displayed, with two particular molecules singled out for attention: rapamycin and furrowstatin. [1:57]
Amoeba Sisters
Amoeba Sisters: Blood Types and Punnett Squares (Multiple Alleles)
A baby was switched at the hospital! How will the Amoeba Sisters figure out who are the correct set of parents? Follow the process and learn about inherited characteristics such as blood type in this video. [7:04]
University of Utah
University of Utah: learn.genetics: What Are Dna and Genes?
Genes are instruction manuals for our bodies and are contained in DNA. This video describes how genes make us unique.
University of Utah
University of Utah: learn.genetics: What Is Inheritance?
In this video you will learn the process of genetics and how you receive your particular genetic traits.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Boveri Sutton Chromosome Theory
Overview of how chromosomes were first proposed as the carriers of Mendel's 'heritable factors' (what we now call 'genes'). [10:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Regulatory Genes
The resource from Khan Academy and the Association of American Medical Colleges provides study content for the MCAT. This resource discusses regulatory genes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Translation (M Rna to Protein)
A deep dive into how mRNA is translated into proteins with the help of ribosomes and tRNA. [14:11]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dna as the 'Transforming Principle'
Sal Khan explains how Griffith and later Avery, McCarty, and MacLeod found strong evidence that DNA is the 'transforming principle' that encodes genetic information. [10:18]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Booting Up a Synthetic Cell
Researchers have inserted an artificially-produced genome into bacterial cells -- and the resulting cells appear to function normally.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Genetics: Lesson 3
This lesson will introduce genetics, and explore the role of DNA in inheritance. It is 3 of 6 in the series titled "Genetics."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Genetics: Lesson 4
This lesson will introduce genetics, and explore the role of DNA in inheritance. It is 4 of 6 in the series titled "Genetics."
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Bacterial Quorum Sensing
An explanation of how Vibrio harveyi, a marine bacteria, functions as a signaling molecule that turns on genes that produce bioluminescence.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Discovery of Genetics
What is genetics and who discovered it. Watch this short animated video to find out.