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What Is Cancer?
What happens to cells for cancerous growths to occur? Your body is made up of millions and millions of cells. In fact there are between 50 and 75 trillion cells in the body. These cells are dying and being replaced all the time. Cancer...
Professor Dave Explains
The Biopsychology of Sleeping and Dreaming
Why do we sleep? Most people would say that it's because our bodies need to rest. And that's part of it, but is that the whole truth? What about dreaming? What is that, why do we do it, and what do they mean? Let's get a closer look at...
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Genetic Diseases
In this live-action program viewers will learn that a monogenic disorder is a genetic disease caused by small-scale genetic differences that cause the malfunction of a single gene and that many diseases result from such genetic...
Visual Learning Systems
Heredity: the Father of Genetics
This program introduces the idea of the inheritance of traits. Attention is given to some of the fascinating features which are heredity-based not only in humans, but also in other plants and animals. The work of the father of modern...
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Codominance
In this video we are now going to look at codominance. You need to understand the difference between genotype and phenotype. The genotype is the set of genes. The phenotype are the physical characteristics that are coded for by the...
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DNA Replication
CREDITS Animation & Design: Bing Rijper Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Gemma Young It might be hard to believe, but at the very start of your life you were a single, microscopic cell called a zygote. Your body now contains millions of...
Rock 'N Learn
Life Science: Photosynthesis
Here's an exciting way to learn important facts and get ready for a life science test! In this episode we'll be looking at photosynthesis.
Professor Dave Explains
The Structure and Physiology of the Human Brain
Let's do a quick review of the human brain, introduce a couple new things, and be right on our way learning about brain function and behavior!
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Genetics: Linkage Problem #2: Map Distance, Coefficient of Coincidence, and Interference
In this video, we explore another linkage problem in genetics in which we determine the central gene, calculate map distances, and calculate coefficient of coincidence and interference. To see our first linkage problem, click the link...
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Preventing Cancer at a Cellular Level
More money is spent on treating cancer than preventing it within the United States. However, scientists are getting closer to finding out if cell growth within our bodies promotes already existing cancer. Scientists are examining...
Professor Dave Explains
Visual Processing and the Visual Cortex
We learned about the structure of the eye in the Anatomy and Physiology series. But how do we process visual information? Light hits the retina at the back of the eye, and then what happens? Well quite a lot, to be honest! We have to go...
Professor Dave Explains
Mechanisms of Natural Selection Types of Sexual Selection
We touched upon sexual selection when we learned about natural selection. Essentially when there is a variance in the reproductive success of a particular sex for a given species, secondary sex characteristics will develop in that...
Visual Learning Systems
Genetics in Our Lives: Father of Genetics
This exciting program takes a glimpse at some of the amazing advances in modern genetics. Starting with the discovery of DNA, students will be exposed to advances such as the creation of recombinant DNA, vaccines, the human genome...
Professor Dave Explains
Drug Addiction and the Brain
We are able to become physically dependent on a wide variety of substances, which results in what we call drug addiction. What does this look like from a neurophysiological standpoint? What does the drug-addicted brain look like? Let's...
Rock 'N Learn
Life Science: Ecosystems
Here's an exciting way to learn important facts and get ready for a life science test! In this episode we'll be looking at ecosystems.
Professor Dave Explains
Geneticist Alex Dainis (Get to Know a Scientist!)
What does a geneticist do? All kinds of stuff with genes, of course! Alex Dainis has a PhD in genetics, and she loves talking about her experience in graduate school, from the challenges of working in the lab to what it means to do...
Professor Dave Explains
The Psychology of Emotion and Stress
Humans, just like most other mammals, display a wide variety of emotional states. But what are emotions? Why do we have them? What purpose do they serve in an evolutionary context? Let's get to the bottom of emotions right now!
Professor Dave Explains
Beyond Mendelian Genetics Complex Patterns of Inheritance
We've already learned about Mendelian genetics, which taught us about dominant and recessive alleles and the laws that govern their inheritance. But things are not always so simple. There are situations that go beyond this basic...
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What are Mendel and Genetic Crosses
Gregor Mendel that came up with the correct hypothesis for how inheritance of traits works. Mendel published his ideas in 1866, but it took until the 1900’s for his ideas to be recognised. Mendel studied the inheritance of different...
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Mendelian Genetics and Punnett Squares
For all of human history, we've been aware of heredity. Children look like their parents. But why? When Gregor Mendel pioneered the field of genetics, he began to try to answer that question, and now that we know about chromosomes, all...
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Inheritance of X-Linked Genes
We all know that DNA is the molecule of heredity, but we didn't always know that. It had to be demonstrated empirically. As it happens, some of the first evidence put forth had to do with genes found on the X-chromosome of fruit flies,...
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BIOLOGY - Genetics - Mitosis
Mitosis produces identical copies of cells, and is involved in growth, cell repair and asexual reproduction - which is how simple organisms reproduce. When cells divide by mitosis, two new cells form and each cell is identical to one...
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BIOLOGY - Genetics - Common Terms Used in Genetics
Learn exactly what these different terms mean, that you will come across in genetics and cell division: Gamete, Chromosome, Gene, Allele, Dominant, Recessive, Homozygous, Heterozygous, Genotype, Phenotype, Haploid & Diploid
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Genetic engineering
In this video we'll go in depth with genetic engineering; on how it is made and what is it used for! Keep watching to unravel the meaning of genetics!