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GCSE Biology - Food Chains & Predator Prey Cycles #85
For ecosystems to function they need energy; and we can see how this energy moves through ecosystems with food chains. We also explore how the populations of predators and prey vary over time with predator prey cycles.
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Ecology - Rules for Living on Earth: Crash Course Biology
Hank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been...
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Feeding Relationships and Predator-Prey Cycles in Ecosystems
This is a lecture presentation on feeding relationships in ecosystems. The presenter discusses the interdependence of different organisms in a community and the consequences of a change in that community. Using a specific community as an...
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Understanding Populations and Factors Affecting Population Growth
This video is a lecture presentation on populations. The presenter defines the terms population, community, and ecosystem and explains how these terms are related. The factors affecting the size of a population, such as food supply,...
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Agricultural Solutions for Feeding a Growing Population: GM Organisms, Fertilizers, and Biological Control
This video explores agricultural solutions that can help feed the growing human population. It discusses three methods: genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to control pests, fertilizers to increase crop growth, and biological control...
Amoeba Sisters
Ecological Relationships
Explore several ecological relationships with The Amoeba Sisters! Ecological relationships discussed include predation, competition, and symbiotic relationships (parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism). Table of Contents: Intro 00:00...
Bozeman Science
Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Paul Andersen differentiates between biotic and abiotic factors. He explains how both abiotic and biotic factors can affect organisms at the level of the cell, the population and even the ecosystem. The complexities of biofilms,...
Bozeman Science
The Hierarchy of Life
Paul Andersen explains how biology is ordered in the hierarchy of life. He first of all describes how emergent properties appear as you move to more inclusive systems. The then describes life at the following levels; atom, molecule,...
SciShow
Wolves Have Taken Over a Marine Ecosystem
New ReviewWolves are amazing hunters, so they tend to be apex predators wherever you find them...including one region in Alaska where these land-based predators sit atop a marine food web.
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Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math?
Do periodical cicadas "know" how to calculate prime numbers? One of the strangest life cycles in all of biology, explained!
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GCSE Biology - Interdependence - Community and Competition #84
Ecology is all about how organisms interact. This video explores important terms like interdependence, community, habitat, ecosystem, competition and more while exploring what ecology really is.
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Levels of Organization in a Community or Ecosystem
The video discusses the concept of a community in an ecosystem and the levels of organization within it. It covers the role of photosynthetic organisms in producing biomass, the different types of consumers (primary, secondary, and...
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Biotic Factors: How Living Things Affect Ecosystems and Communities
This video is a lecture presentation on biotic factors. The presenter defines biotic factors and explains how they can affect communities and ecosystems. The focus is on living factors, such as availability of food, arrival of new...
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Biotic Factors: How Living Things Impact Communities and Ecosystems
This video is a lecture presentation on biotic factors. The presenter defines and explains how biotic factors, which are living factors that affect a community, can impact the members and distribution of organisms in ecosystems. The...
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What Is Asexual Reproduction
Asexual reproduction only needs one parent; all the offspring are clones. This means they are genetically identical to one another and to the parent. Many plants use asexual reproduction, like spider plants. Bacteria also reproduce...
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Variation
CREDITS Animation & Design: Waldi Apollis Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Lucy Billings Look at these baby animals. You will have immediately observed how cute and fluffy they are but you will also have noticed that they are different -...
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What Is Asexual Reproduction | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool
What Is Asexual Reproduction | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool Asexual reproduction only needs one parent; all the offspring are clones. This means they are genetically identical to one another and to the parent. Many plants use asexual...
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Variation | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool
Variation | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool Look at these baby animals. You will have immediately observed how cute and fluffy they are but you will also have noticed that they are different - they vary. Yes - some are puppies and some...
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Communities: Relationships and Key Terms
The video is a lecture presentation on communities and the relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. The narrator uses the example of a community of organisms in a wooded area and discusses the feeding relationships between them....
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Understanding Communities and Key Terms
The video is a lecture presentation on communities and the relationships between organisms within them. It uses an example of a community that includes an owl, a snake, a shrew, a frog, a beetle, grasshopper, and grass living in a wooded...
MinuteEarth
These Names Can Kill Animals
Just like the names of products and companies, animals' names can affect how we feel about them...and changing the name of a species might actually help us save it. ___________________________________________ Credits (and Twitter...
Bozeman Science
Speciation and Extinction
Paul Andersen details the evolutionary processes of speciation and extinction. Stickleback evolution in Lake Loberg is used as example of rapid speciation. Adaptive radiation is illustrated using the Hawaiian honeycreeper. A brief...
MinuteEarth
Why It Sucks to Be a Male Hyena
Thanks to spotted hyenas’ unusual social structure, males experience a tough life of solitude, harassment, and deprivation. ⬇️ ORDER OUR FIRST BOOK (out October 12th) ⬇️ DTFBA (get SUPER-cool book bundles here!):...
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Why It Sucks to Be a Male Hyena
Thanks to spotted hyenas’ unusual social structure, males experience a tough life of solitude, harassment, and deprivation. ___________________________________________ If you want to learn more about this topic, start your googling with...