American Chemical Society
How Does Protein Build Muscle?
Beef up your knowledge of muscles. Individuals learn how protein builds muscle in a video from the ACS Reactions series. The video explains the amounts of protein necessary to build muscle.
American Chemical Society
Why Do Things Taste Sweet?
Our love of sweets can be traced back to our cavemen ancestors! The chemical makeup of sweet foods creates a strong source of energy in our diets. Glucose, sucrose, and fructose all have similar chemical structures that create the tastes...
American Chemical Society
What Makes Blue-Green Algae Dangerous?
Sometimes the little things cause the most damage. Scholars watch a video in the ACS Reactions playlist to learn about algal blooms. They listen to an explanation about how these blooms form and how they are harmful to people and the...
FuseSchool
Protein Synthesis
Your body determines which proteins are made based on the code in your DNA. A Fuse School video explains how protein synthesis works. It starts with DNA, moves through transcription, RNA, mRNA, completes translation, tRNA, and finally...
Stated Clearly
What is DNA and How Does it Work?
Discussions of DNA occur in Jurassic Park, X-men, Dexter, and CSI, yet many don't fully understand it. The video explains what DNA is, where it is located, and how it forms proteins. The chemistry of life becomes understandable through...
Teacher's Pet
Proteins and Enzymes
Life begins with enzymes and ends without enzymes. The video explains where to find proteins and enzymes. It details how they work and why they are crucial to life.
Fuse School
Denaturing of Enzymes
How do you make an enzyme stop working? The video explains the process of denaturing enzymes. It lists many uses for this process and examples that young scientists understand from experience.
Crash Course
Comets
Crystal ball or big, hairy, dirty snowball? Take young astronomy scholars on an up-close investigation of comets with a video. Topics include the makeup of comets and their two tails, long- and short-period comets, and how they interact...
Fuse School
Proteins
Protein makes up the second-most abundant substance in the human body. The video explains the relationship between proteins and amino acids. It also lists the many functions of proteins in humans, animals, and plants.
Bozeman Science
Proteins
Don't let protein whey you down. Video focuses on the importance and structure of proteins. It connects the four structures of proteins, the way they connect, and the chemical properties of r-groups.
Berkeley University of California
Isomers: Stereo (Chiral)
In the 50s and 60s, pregnant women were prescribed Thalidomide, a stereoisomer that prevented morning sickness but caused severe birth defects. The instructor in the videos explain stereoisomers, enantiomers, and chirality using...
Amoeba Sisters
Protein Synthesis and the Lean, Mean Ribosome Machines
Don't copy from each other, unless you are DNA — in which case, please make an exact copy. The video explains protein synthesis including the difference in transcription and translation. It touches on codon and how reading three bases at...
Ricochet Science
Proteins
An informative video covers how amino acids make proteins. It also covers their primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures.
TED-Ed
Could Comets Be the Source of Life on Earth?
For thousands of years people have observed comets as they pass through the solar system, but could there be more to these celestial bodies than meets the eye? Watch this video to learn how these objects have recently been found to...
Curated OER
How Your Body Works 1, Overview of Nutrition & Wellness
Nutritionist Radhia Gleis explains what metabolism is and how to assess it. Food is processed and used by the body producing waste in the end. The steps of the digestive system are explained from its beginning in the mouth to its end in...
Curated OER
Health: Digestive System 101
Colorful pictures and animation accompany a thorough explanation of the digestive process. Each anatomical part of the digestive system is explained as well as the chemical signals that are affiliated with digestion and absorption....
Curated OER
How the Body Works: The Digestive System
A quick, detailed explanation of digestion is given alongside textbook drawings of the mouth and intestines. This video would most likely help higher learners since there is no animation or simple explanations. Using scientific...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Life's Rocky Start the Miller Urey Experiment
How did life first arise on earth? There are many theories and scientists Stanely Miller and Harold Urey set out to recreate the environment of early earth in order to find some answers. Watch this video from NOVA to see the results of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Dna
A detailed introduction to dioxyribonucleic acid, otherwise known as DNA. [28:05]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Macromolecules: Proteins: Introduction to Amino Acids
Understand why the central dogma of molecular biology is amino acids with this video. [9:53]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Animation: Triplet Code
Once the structure of DNA was discovered, the next challenge was determining how the sequence of letters coded for the 20 amino acids could make protein. In theory, one or two letters can only code for 4 or 16 amino acids, respectively....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Test Prep: Mcat: Biomolecules: Amino Acids and Proteins: Amino Acid Structure
In this video, you'll learn about the general structure of amino acids, which include an amine group, a carboxylic acid group, and a unique side chain (R-group) attached to the alpha carbon. In addition, we'll explore where amino acids...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology Foundations: Introduction to Proteins and Amino Acids
Introduction to proteins as polymers of amino acids (monomers). [5:53]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Molecular Genetics: Mutations in Translation Into Amino Acids
Use an amino acid translation table to understand the impact of point and frameshift mutations. [8:52]