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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...
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Five Facts - Digestive System
This video explores five fun facts about the Digestive System.
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Apoptosis Programmed Cell Death
We've touched on apoptosis before, especially when we learned about cancer in the biochemistry series. But let's a closer look. We know that apoptosis is programmed cell death, a failsafe mechanism whereby faulty cells that pose a threat...
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BIOLOGY - Plant Biology - Photosynthesis and Respiration
Learn the basics about Photosynthesis and respiration. What is Photosynthesis? How do plants make their own food? Find out more in this video!
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Digestive enzymes
In this video, we’re going to look at the enzymes involved in digestion in more detail.
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What Does The Stomach Do
The stomach is an amazing organ. It varies in size from person to person but can contain up to 2 litres of food and liquid. The stomach is one of the organs in the digestive system. It is essentially a bag of muscle where food is kept...
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Green Chemistry Principles - Catalysts
Learn the basics about the principle of green chemistry that concerns catalysis, as a part of environmental chemistry. A catalyst increases the rate of a chemical reaction. This means that desired products can be made more quickly, using...
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What is Homeostasis?
So what is homeostasis is a term first defined by Claude Bernard in 1865 it means maintaining a constant internal environment this is a bit like car brain works senses all around the body imaging various things and sending the...
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Digestive and Excretory System
This live-action program teaches students that, for food to be of use to our body's cells, it needs to be broken down and absorbed into the blood stream. This is the job of the digestive system, a complex series of tools that includes...
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Halifax man pleads with insurer to pay for 'groundbreaking' drug for cystic fibrosis
Stefan Strecko says it's unfair that he is being denied Trikafta, an expensive drug he believes would change his life and he continues to take dozens of drugs a day to try to maintain his health.