Journey to the Microcosmos
Eating, Hatching, and Crashing into the Moon More About Tardigrades
This week, the microcosmos meet the cosmos as we explore even more fascinating things about our friend, the tardigrade. We'll discuss their weird weird mouths, how we take care of our tardigrades, and what's going to happen to those...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Porifera: Sponges
It's finally time to start diving into individual animal phyla! First up is Porifera. This includes all the sponges. These are funky looking organisms, almost none of which exhibit any kind of symmetry, nor do they possess any tissues or...
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BIOLOGY - Environment - Human impact
In this video we'll learn about how human activity has a negative impact on the Earth because of burning fossil fuels, deforestation and creating waste.
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Embryological Evidence of Evolution
In this exploration, we delve into the study of newly formed organisms and their development, known as embryology. Join us as we uncover the intriguing evidence of evolution that emerges from comparing the embryonic development of...
Mazz Media
Understanding Producers and the Food Chain
This video is an educational program that teaches about producers in the ecosystem. The video also covers the process of photosynthesis that plants use to produce glucose, and it introduces the concept of a food chain to explain how...
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Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans
Where is the line between good and bad microorganisms and why do we seem to know so much more about the bad ones?
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What Are Pathogens?
A pathogen is a microorganism that can cause disease. Pathogens may be viruses, bacteria, protists or fungi. Examples of bacteria infections are cholera, typhoid, food poisoning and gonorrhoea. Examples of viral infections are the flu...
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Mineral Requirements of Plants
It describes the need for mineral nutrition in plants, lists the criteria for essentiality of an element and classifies the minerals required by plants as macro and micronutrients.
Curated Video
Understanding Trophic Levels in an Ecosystem
The video is a lecture presentation on trophic levels in ecosystems. The presenter defines trophic levels as feeding levels in a community or ecosystem and explains how they can be used to organize feeding relationships. The concept of a...
Professor Dave Explains
Photosynthesis: Light Reactions and the Calvin Cycle
We get energy by eating other organisms, but plants don't have to do that. They can build their own food out of water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight. I'm sure you've heard of photosynthesis before, but let's take a look at some of the...
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Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation
Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation
Mazz Media
Biochemistry
This live-action video program is about the word Biochemistry. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Biochemistry through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Science360
Microbiologist Gemma Reguera - ScienceLives
When people enter microbiologist Gemma Reguera's lab at Michigan State University, one of the first things they notice is that it's staffed nearly with all female researchers. Ever since Reguera was six years old, she knew that she...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Relax and Enjoy the View
This week, we're taking a bit of a break, but we thought you might also like one. So, today, let's all just sit and look at our lovely little friends while we take a breath and enjoy Andrew Huang's amazing music.
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Sexual Reproduction in Animals
It explains the sequence of events taking place during sexual reproduction in animals. i.e. Gametogenesis; fertilisation and embryonic development.
Ancient Lights Media
Reproduction in Plants - Sexual and Asexual
Plant Reproduction Set: 1. This clip explains how plants are capable of both sexual and asexual (or vegetative) reproduction.
Let's Tute
Vegetative Propagation: Asexual Mode of Reproduction in Plants
In this video, the teacher explains the different methods of artificial vegetative propagation used by plants for asexual reproduction. The four methods covered are cutting, grafting, layering, and tissue culture.
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The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
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Key Ecology Terms
In this video we look at a few keys words that you will come across throughout ecology. An ecosystem is made up of all of the communities that live in it, every single organism from small to big and lots of environmental factors like...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell?
It’s fun to watch organisms eat in the microcosmos. There’s a whole range of methods to enjoy. And at the core of all this is a simple, universal need: energy, stored chemically as adenosine triphosphate—or ATP—that’s made from the...
Journey to the Microcosmos
BONUS VIDEO The Microcosmos Microscope
BONUS VIDEO The Microcosmos Microscope
Journey to the Microcosmos
How to Name a Microbe
There’s a story behind every microbe’s name, and that of the Phacus smulkowskianus is surprisingly sweet.