SciShow
Why So Many Ladybugs Don't Look Like Ladybugs
Ladybugs are red with black spots, right? Well, not always. There's a lot of genetic and evolutionary reasons that they can be different colors with wacky patterns.
Amoeba Sisters
Punnett Squares and Sex-Linked Traits (UPDATED)
Explore how to solve Punnett squares that involve sex-linked traits, specifically focusing on X-linked traits. Video has a resource available here https://www.amoebasisters.com/handouts This 2023 UPDATED sex-linked traits Amoeba Sisters...
SciShow
Are Blue Eyes Endangered?
SciShow explains the genetics -- and physics -- behind why blue eyes are blue, and what the future may be for the trait. Spoiler alert: Blue eyes aren’t really blue! SciShow explains!
SciShow
Gregor Mendel: Great Minds
Hank brings us the story of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk who, with the help of a garden full of pea plants, discovered the fundamental properties of inheritance and paved the way for modern genetics. He also gives us the dirt on a...
Amoeba Sisters
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Explore the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium equations with The Amoeba Sisters! Learn why this equation can be useful, its five assumptions, and how to calculate genotype and allele frequencies with p and q values! This video does assume the...
Amoeba Sisters
Alleles and Genes
Join the Amoeba Sisters as they discuss the terms "gene" and "allele" in context of a gene involved in PTC (phenylthiocarbamide) taste sensitivity. Note: as mentioned throughout video, the ability to taste PTC may be more complex than a...
Amoeba Sisters
Incomplete Dominance, Codominance, Polygenic Traits, and Epistasis!
Discover more types of non-Mendelian inheritance such as incomplete dominance and codominance with the Amoeba Sisters!
Amoeba Sisters
Mega Genetics Review
Ready to review how to do different types of Mendelian and Non-Mendelian Punnett square problems with The Amoeba Sisters? This video reviews one-trait / monohybrid crosses, two-trait / dihybrid crosses, incomplete dominance, codominance,...
Amoeba Sisters
Multiple Alleles (ABO Blood Types) and Punnett Squares
Learn how to set up and solve a genetic problem involving multiple alleles using ABO blood types as an example!
Amoeba Sisters
Monohybrids and the Punnett Square Guinea Pigs
Learn how to use a Punnett square to solve a Mendelian monohybrid cross with one of the Amoeba Sister's favorite classroom pets: hairless guinea pigs.
Bozeman Science
AP Biology Lab 8: Population Genetics and Evolution
Mr. Andersen explains Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and describes the bead lab.
Amoeba Sisters
Dihybrid and Two-Trait Crosses
This video will show how to set up and solve everyone's favorite 16 square Punnett square.
SciShow
Are Blue Eyes Endangered?
SciShow explains the genetics -- and physics -- behind why blue eyes are blue, and what the future may be for the trait. Spoiler alert: Blue eyes aren't really blue! SciShow explains!
Amoeba Sisters
Punnett Squares and Sex-Linked Traits
Explore inheritance when carried on the X chromosome with the Amoeba Sisters! This video focuses on how to do general Punnett square problems that involve traits on the sex chromosomes (X and Y chromosomes). We do want to point out...
Crash Course
Population Genetics: When Darwin Met Mendel - Crash Course Biology
Hank talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation.
Amoeba Sisters
Pedigrees
Explore autosomal recessive trait and X-linked recessive trait tracking in pedigrees with the Amoeba Sisters! Table of Contents: Intro 00:00 Introducing Symbols/Numbering in Pedigree 0:40 Meaning of Shading in Shapes 1:19 Introducing...
Bozeman Science
Hardy-Weinberg Equation
In this video Paul Andersen explains the elements in the Hardy-Weinberg equation; including the allele frequency and phenotype frequency. He begins with a brief explanation of phenotypes and genotypes. A sample problem is worked out and...
Bozeman Science
Solving Hardy Weinberg Problems
Paul Andersen shows you how to solve simple Hardy-Weinberg problems. He starts with a brief description of a gene pool and shows you how the formula is derived. He then shows you how to solve a couple of sample problems.
SciShow
Mendel Got Extremely Lucky (...or Maybe He Lied)
Science, while often the result of a stroke of genius, can just as easily be a stroke of extraordinarily good luck. Mendel’s work just happened to be a mix of the two.
SciShow
Gregor Mendel: Great Minds
Hank brings us the story of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk who, with the help of a garden full of pea plants, discovered the fundamental properties of inheritance and paved the way for modern genetics. He also gives us the dirt on a...
Bozeman Science
Genetic Recombination and Gene Mapping
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the frequency of recombination between linked genes can be used to determine the relative location of genes on a chromosome. Thomas Hunt Morgan and Alfred Strutevant used the fruit fly to develop...
Crash Course
Genetics - Lost and Found: Crash Course History of Science
Sometimes trail blazers of science aren't famous like Darwin or Pasteur. Sometimes they're humble Abbots, just growing peas in the back of their Abbey. This is the story of Gregor Mendel and how his work was done, lost, then found again.
Bozeman Science
Chromosomal Inheritance
In this video Paul Andersen describes genetics at the chromosomal level. He begins with a simple monohybrid cross as viewed through Mendelian genetics and then shows how genes are distributed through meiosis to possible gametes. This is...
Crash Course
Heredity: Crash Course Biology
Hank and his brother John discuss heredity via the gross example of relative ear wax moistness.