Curated Video
Techniques and Methods of Stain Removal
This video provides an overview of how stain removers work, explaining the different methods they use to remove or mask stains. It discusses the use of solvents, emulsifiers, enzymes, oxidizers, and whiteners to effectively tackle...
Mazz Media
Mouth (How it Functions)
This live-action video program is about the term __________ 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...
Professor Dave Explains
Transcription and Translation: From DNA to Protein
Ok, so everyone knows that DNA is the genetic code, but what does that mean? How can some little molecule be a code that makes a single cell develop into a giraffe, or a monkey, or Tony Danza? Within this clip lie the answers, child!
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Introduction to Biotechnology
This nugget introduces you to the science of biotechnology. It briefly discusses the principles, techniques and applications of biotechnology.
FuseSchool
What Are Proteins
In this video, we are going to discuss the structure and uses of protein molecules. Proteins are long-chain molecules made of strings of amino acids joined together. All amino acids are compounds with a similar basic structure: they have...
Ancient Lights Media
Restriction Enzymes/Introduction to Enzyme Function
Restriction Enzyme Set: 1. This clip introduces DNA-snipping restriction enzymes and takes a simplified look at how enzymes function.
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...
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...
Professor Dave Explains
Synthetic Biology and Materials Science Part 1: Biological Manufacturing
We've discussed some aspects of biotechnology already, but we have yet to discuss the promising field of synthetic biology. We are now able to manipulate biological organisms in ways that have technological applications, and one of the...
Curated Video
Five Facts - Digestive System
This video explores five fun facts about the Digestive System.
Mazz Media
Digestive System
In this live-action program viewers will learn that the digestive system is a group of organs working together to convert food into energy and nutrients to allow the body to function, grow and repair it. Students will come to understand...
Mazz Media
Avian Digestive System
This live-action video program is about the avian digestive system. 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,...
FuseSchool
Enzymes
Enzymes are really important proteins, that speed up the rates of reactions such as in photosynthesis, respiration and protein synthesis. The enzymes and substrates are always moving, and occasionally they collide at the right speed and...
Curated Video
Photosynthesis: The Biochemistry Behind How Plants Make Their Food
Plants, unlike most living things, produce their own food through a process called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis means 'making using light'. Plants use the energy from the sunlight to make food. The food matter comes from carbon dioxide...
Professor Dave Explains
Enzymes: Nature's Factory Workers
What are enzymes? Why they're nature's little factory workers. They chop up certain things! They build up others! Pretty amazing the kind of chemistry nature can do given enormous polypeptide chains with unfathomable variability and...
Mazz Media
Human Digestive System
This live-action video program is about the human digestive system. 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,...
Professor Dave Explains
What is Cancer?
Cancer is the ultimate expiration date for biological life. But what is it? How does it occur? Is there anything we can do about it? Let's take a brief look at this incredibly complex issue.
Professor Dave Explains
Eukaryotic Cells Part 1: Animal Cells and Endosymbiotic Theory
Prokaryotic cells were simple enough, but eukaryotic cells are much more complex! They have so many more little features and compartments, like the deluxe model of your car. We have to learn about every single one of these organelles and...
Science Buddies
Explore Enzyme Activitiy with Toothpicks
Do you know what enzymes are? Enzymes are like little machines that help carry out and speed up chemical reactions. In our body, for example, enzymes help break down the food we eat. This video shows how you can use a toothpick model to...
FuseSchool
Sperm and Eggs Cells
In this video we learn about the distinct differences of egg and sperm cells, which are also known as gametes. We will see how the chromosomes from each cells come together to form our unique genetic code. The gametes (sperm and egg...
FuseSchool
Photosynthesis & Respiration
Learn the basics about Photosynthesis and respiration. What is Photosynthesis? How do plants make their own food? Find out more in this video!
Professor Dave Explains
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Staphylococcus aureus is the bacteria responsible for what we commonly refer to as a staph infection. They are extremely common, but they are also developing antibiotic resistance at an alarming rate. Let's take a look at these now.
FuseSchool
Biological Molecules
Molecules make you think of chemistry, right? Well, they also are very important in biology too. In this video we are going to look at carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. When I say lipids, I am talking about fats and oils. Life...
FuseSchool
Plasma
What colour is the liquid flowing through your veins, arteries and capillaries? it’s not blue or red. But technically it’s actually yellow.The blood that you see when you cut yourself looks red because it contains millions of red blood...