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DNA Structure and Function Explained
The video is about the structure of DNA. It explains that DNA is a polymer made up of repeating nucleotide units consisting of a sugar, phosphate, and base. The video also discusses base pairing, in which complementary strands of DNA...
Professor Dave Explains
Metabolism and ATP
How does your body break down the food you eat to generate the energy you need to get through your day? What form of energy is this, anyway? Let's go over some of the basics of metabolic processes, and introduce ATP, the currency of...
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Introduction to Natural Polymers: From Sugars to DNA
The video provides an overview of natural polymers found in all living things. The video explains that sugars are carbohydrates and can be linked together to form polysaccharides in condensation reactions, with examples of starch and...
Professor Dave Explains
DNA Replication: Copying the Molecule of Life
Your DNA needs to be in every cell in your body, so what happens when cells divide? How does each new cell retain all of the genetic information? The DNA is able to copy itself through a process called replication. Let's go through 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...
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mRNA Processing: The 5'-7-methylguanosine Cap
mRNA Processing: The 5'-7-methylguanosine Cap
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Mutations
So, what causes mutations? Well, this is where science fiction meets science fact, sort of. In the backstory of many superheroes there will be a meeting with a radioactive substance - be it cosmic rays or radioactive waste. In real life,...
Ancient Lights Media
How Genes are Expressed
Genetic Expression Set: 1. This clip introduces the process of gene expression, whereby information stored in the DNA of a gene is transcribed into messenger RNA and translated into a protein gene product.
Professor Dave Explains
Nucleic Acids: DNA and RNA
We've been hearing about DNA since the third grade, and we all know that it's a double helix with little ladder rungs. But now we are ready to understand this molecule on a more fundamental level, which will enable to us to understand...
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U.S. baby healed with tailor-made therapy using Canadian technology
A Pennsylvania baby with a rare genetic condition has been successfully treated with a tailor-made therapy using gene-editing technology partly developed by a Vancouver-based company, raising hopes it can be used for multiple conditions.
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DNA Sequencing TACG version
Loop animation of succession of letters that indicate the nucleotides within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule, the bases of canonical structure of DNA: Thymine (T), Adenine (A), Cytosine (C), Guanine (G).
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Human factor VIII molecule, a human protein involved in the blood clotting process.
Human factor VIII molecule, a human protein involved in the blood clotting process.
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Nucleotide Triphosphates - Building Blocks for DNA
Loop animation of succession of letters that indicate the Nucleotide Triphosphates the building blocks of DNA: Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), Guanosine Triphosphate (GTP), Cytidine Triphosphate (CTP), Uridine Triphosphate (UTP).
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Telomerase enzyme.
Telomerase (blue) is an enzyme that adds telomeres, repeat units of six DNA bases, to the ends of chromosomes. It uses an RNA template (red backbone) to assemble repeated units of the DNA bases TTAGGG, where T is thymine (yellow), A is...