Amoeba Sisters
Animals: Tour of 9 Phyla
Join the Amoeba Sisters in exploring some general animal characteristics, major vocabulary used in classifying animals (such as symmetry, protostome vs deuterostome, cephalization, and coelom), and take a general tour of 9 major animal...
Crash Course
Complex Animals: Annelids & Arthropods - CrashCourse Biology
Hank continues our exploration of animal phyla with the more complexly organized annelida and arthropoda, and a biolography on insects.
Crash Course
Chordates - CrashCourse Biology
Hank introduces us to ourselves by taking us on a journey through the fascinatingly diverse phyla known as chordata. And the next time someone asks you who you are, you can give them the facts: you're a mammalian amniotic tetrapodal...
Crash Course
The History of Life on Earth - Crash Course Ecology
With a solid understanding of biology on the small scale under our belts, it's time for the long view - for the next twelve weeks, we'll be learning how the living things that we've studied interact with and influence each other and...
Crash Course
The Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations - Crash Course Biology
Hank introduces us to nonvascular plants - liverworts, hornworts & mosses - which have bizarre features, kooky habits, and strange sex lives. Nonvascular plants inherited their reproductive cycle from algae, but have perfected it to the...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Ecdysozoa: Invertebrates With Cuticles
We spent a lot of time going through the clade Spiralia, as it contains many phyla, but with that complete it's time to move on to its sister clade, Ecdysozoa, the other large category of protostomes. This clade contains most of all the...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding the Classification of Animals
In this video, we explore the fascinating world of animals and their classification. Through various characteristics and classifications, scientists continue to uncover new species and unravel the diversity of shapes, sizes, body forms,...
Visual Learning Systems
Origin and Diversity of Plants: Nonvascular Plants
The conquest of land by plants and their proliferation is an amazing biologic story. This vivid, colorful series of videos highlights the evolution of plants, while also describing the major groupings of modern-day plants. Concepts and...
Mazz Media
Phylum
This live-action video program is about Phylum. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and...
Visual Learning Systems
Classifying Animals Review
This video is a review of the topics covered in the Classifying Animals series. In this video, we explore the fascinating characteristics of the animal Kingdom and how animals are classified. We learn about the major categories of...
Professor Dave Explains
Phyla Orthonectida and Dicyemida: Mesozoans
We've arrived at the spiralia phyla orthonectida and dicyemida. The dycemids live exclusively in the renal sac of benthic cephalopods, such as an octopodes. Orthnectids spend most of their lives as trophic plasmodium within the tissue of...
Curated Video
Filo
Este programa de video de accion en vivo es sobre la palabra filo. El programa esta disenado para reforzar y apoyar la comprension y retencion del estudiante de la palabra mediante el uso de secuencias de video, fotografias, diagramas y...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Cycliophora: Ring-Bearing Symbions
Creatures in the cycliophora phylum have a particularly strange structure and lifestyle. All of these animals live their lives attached symbiotically to the mouthparts of cold-water lobsters. Let's look at their anatomy and reproductive...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Gnathostomulida: Jaw Worms
Gnathostomulida have surprisingly large and powerful jaws for their size, which has given them the popular nickname, "jaw worms". The discovery of these marine microorganisms just a few decades ago indicated that there may be an...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Xenacoelomorpha and an Introduction to Nephrozoa
Most of the animals we are familiar with are contained in Nephrozoa, as these are the triploblastic and bilaterally symmetrical animals. The phyla we've covered so far are not part of Nephrozoa, and we have one more to cover before we...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Fungal Phylogeny and Taxonomy
There are a lot of species in the fungi kingdom. How many? Over five million! That's a lot of fungus to sort through, so how do we keep things organized? Well we may remember learning about phylogeny and taxonomy in the biology series,...
Ancient Lights Media
Biological Classification - Nine Major Phyla of the Kingdom Animalia
Biological Classification Set: This clip introduces the nine major phyla of the animal kingdom.
Professor Dave Explains
Major Divisions of Kingdom Animalia and the Problem With Animal Phyla
Soon we are going to dive into a study of all the different kinds of animals, but first we need some kind of road map. What are all the major divisions of Kingdom Animalia? Below kingdom is phylum, so how many animal phyla are there, and...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Spiralia and Lophotrochozoa
It's time to start digging into Nephrozoa, which is going to take a really, really, really long time to cover. The first major clade within that we will tackle is Spiralia. This includes well-known phyla like Mollusca and Annelida, but...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring the World of Worms
This video provides an overview of the different phyla of worms, including flatworms, roundworms, and segmented worms. It explains their characteristics and habitats, such as the microscopic planarians found in water, the tube-like...
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Simple Plants: Seedless Vascular Plants
This series of videos explores the fascinating characteristics of nonvascular land plants as well as some of the simpler vascular plants. An in-depth look at mosses, hornworts, and liverworts serves as the topic of study for the...