Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Genetics: How Genes Direct Development
All the cells in all animals have a complete set of genes with the instructions for building an organism. Working with mutations in fruit flies, scientists have found a group of regulatory genes called Hox genes that signal other genes...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dna Cloning and Recombinant Dna
Use this tutorial as an introduction to DNA cloning and recombinant DNA. [11:08]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gel Electrophoresis
This introduction to gel electrophoresis demonstrates how it's used to separate DNA fragments or other macromolecules. [11:00]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Heredity and Genetics: Genetics 101 Part 4: What Are Phenotypes?
Discover how your observable traits, or phenotypes, are the result of interactions between your genes and environment.
Other
Ted Ed: Hortensia Jimenez Diaz: Mendel's Pea Plants and Genetics
Each father and mother pass down traits to their children, who inherit combinations of their dominant or recessive alleles. But how do we know so much about genetics today? Hortensia Jimenez Diaz explains how studying pea plants revealed...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: What Happens When Scientists Get It Wrong?
Scientists published a study in 2010 that claimed they had discovered an alien bacterium that could create its own DNA with arsenic. Other scientists were skeptical and tried to duplicate their results, without success. In this podcast,...
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Genetics
Learn about the contributions of Gregor Mendel to genetics. [1:21]
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Heredity
Animated video, with an accompanying quiz, explains what heredity is and how it works.
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]
Crash Course
Crash Course Sociology #43: Population Health
This episode continues the unit on health with a discussion of some of the indicators that help us measure health for different populations. We'll also explore three contributors to health disparities: individual factors like genetics,...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Genetics: Genes Tell Us About Evolution
Mitch Sogin analyses the genes of a sponge in his search for the origin of animals. In order to sequence the genes, he extracts them from the cells. We see the threads of DNA in a test tube. He compares a similar gene found in all the...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Introduction: A New View of the Evolution of Animals
The scientific fields of paleontology, embryology, anatomy, and genetics have all contributed to a new view of the evolution of the animal kingdom. [3:42]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: The Biology of Skin Color
Penn State University anthropologist Dr. Nina Jablonski walks us through the evidence that the different shades of skin color among human populations arose as adaptations to the intensity of ultraviolet radiation in different parts of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discussions of Conditions for Hardy Weinberg
An overview of what happens when the conditions for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium are not fulfilled. [6:54]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Allele Frequency
Allele frequencies in populations and how they differ from genotype frequencies. [7:26]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Human Prehistory 101: Prologue
Award-winning video introduces human prehistory starting over 200,000 years ago. Who were our first human ancestors? Where did they live? [4:40]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: From Lab to Pharmacy
This week, Harold Varmus was sworn in as director of the National Cancer Institute. He's no stranger to government science, having headed the NIH during the 1990s before a stint as head of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Comic Book Teaches Genetics, Biology
We'll talk with the author of a new book that teaches genetics in the form of a graphic novel.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Dna Art
Ira talks with artists incorporating DNA and genetics into their artworks.
Other
Rhyme Learn: Dna Rap
Learn all about deoxyribonucleic acid, otherwise known as DNA, through this rap song.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Math in Genetics: Lesson 4
This lesson shows students that math is used in the field of genetics. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Math in Genetics."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Math in Genetics: Lesson 5
This lesson shows students that math is used in the field of genetics. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Math in Genetics."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Math in Genetics: Lesson 1
This lesson shows students that math is used in the field of genetics. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Math in Genetics."
Other
How Stuff Works: What Determines Your Hair Color?
In this video you will learn about the natural variation in the color of human hair. What's the physical explanation for the difference? [2:56]