CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Proteins and Secretory Pathways
A video that focuses on proteins secretion. [3:46]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Growth and Metabolism: Digesting Food
Get an overview of three of the key macromolecules of life (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates), and how they get digested and absorbed.
University of Utah
University of Utah: learn.genetics: What Is a Protein?
This video provides insight on the human protein. Content explores what a protein is, how they work, and how they are made.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Life?
Defining life is harder than it seems. This video explains four key qualities that all living things possess: Metabolism, Homeostasis, Reproduction, and Adaptation. DNA plays a crucial role in all of these qualities. [10:24]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Seafood Shanty Sing a Long
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, the vegetables sing a song about the different types of seafood, and students learn that seafood comes in a variety of forms and can be a great source of protein. [1:26]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: P Is for Protein
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and related lesson plan provide an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on protein. Using these materials, students will understand the role of protein in their health...
PBS
Nova Labs: The Rna Enigma
RNA is a wonder molecule that can answer some of the biggest mysteries in biology. But what exactly is RNA, and how can you help discover its secrets just by playing a game? [3:23]
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #36: Metabolism and Nutrition, Part 1
Metabolism is a complex process that has a lot more going on than personal trainers and commercials might have you believe. Today we are exploring some of its key parts, including vital nutrients -- such as water, vitamins, minerals,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #3: Biological Molecules You Are What You Eat
Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins - and how we find them in our environment and in the food that we eat. [14:09]
Amoeba Sisters
Amoeba Sisters: Biomolecules
Learn all about carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids and the monomers that build them up! Also get some fun mnemonics for remembering important parts of the monomers. [7:30]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: A Decade After the Genome, Scientists Map the Proteome
Nearly all the body's cells contain identical DNA. So why does a neuron grow up so differently than a liver cell? Proteins, says Akhilesh Pandey, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Enzymes
This narrated screencast explains the role enzymes play in cellular metabolism. [4:42]
PBS
Nova Labs: Protein Synthesis in the Cellular Factory
Your cells contain an amazing factory that builds the RNA and protein machines that keep you alive. Learn how this factory works and what the relationship is between DNA, RNA, and proteins. [3:48]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Using Small Molecules to Modulate a Protein
This video illustrates how a small molecule binds to a protein. As a result of the binding, the protein alters its shape and becomes inactivated. [1:10]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Diversity of Small Molecules
In this animation, a molecular menagerie of small molecules is displayed, with two particular molecules singled out for attention: rapamycin and furrowstatin. [1:57]
Other
Rcsb Protein Data Bank: What Is a Protein?
Proteins play countless roles throughout the biological world, from catalyzing chemical reactions to building the structures of all living things. Learn about the 3D shape and function of macromolecules. [3:38]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ingredients for Life: Carbon
This video segment adapted from NOVA illustrates why carbon is at the center of life on Earth. It also asks whether carbon-based life might exist on other planets. [1:38]
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learn Genetics: What Are Proteins?
Proteins are the workhorses of our bodies. Investigate what proteins are made of and their functions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biological Molecules You Are What You Eat
Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins - and how we find them in our environment and in the food that we eat. [13:45]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tertiary Structure of Proteins
Did you know the structure of proteins can determine function of the proteins? This video reviews over the different order of proteins from primary to tertiary. Video will focus on the tertiary structure of proteins and how side chain...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Uniporters, Symporters and Antiporters
Uniporters, symporters, and antiporters are proteins that are used in the transport of substances across a cell membrane. This video describes how each of these works in the transport process. [7:13]
PBS
Pbs: Career Profile: Chemist and Biologist Catherine Drennan
Meet Professor Cathy Drennan, whose research focuses on a protein inside microorganisms and how it converts carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that accelerates climate change, into energy.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nutrition and Health: Lesson 1
This lesson will look at the effect that diet and exercise have on normal body functions. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Nutrition and Health."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Proteins: Lesson 8
This lesson will describe the levels of protein structure as well as define the role of proteins in your body. It is 8 of 9 in the series titled "Proteins."