TED-Ed
What Does the Pancreas Do?
We are all born with one, but how many people actually know what the pancreas does? Follow along with a short video as it examines the important role this often-overlooked organ plays in digesting food and maintaining...
Curated OER
Enzymes, Proteins, Carbohydrates, Digestion
Did you know that different types of food are digested in different parts of the body? Proteins are primarily digested in the stomach, fats in the small intestine, and carbohydrates begin to break down in the mouth. This highly...
Curated OER
How Your Body Works 1, Overview of Nutrition & Wellness
Nutritionist Radhia Gleis explains what metabolism is and how to assess it. Food is processed and used by the body producing waste in the end. The steps of the digestive system are explained from its beginning in the mouth to its end in...
Curated OER
How the Body Works: The Digestive System
A quick, detailed explanation of digestion is given alongside textbook drawings of the mouth and intestines. This video would most likely help higher learners since there is no animation or simple explanations. Using scientific...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Antioxidant Enzymes: Three or Four Veggies a Day Keeps Aging Away
The purpose of this video lesson is to expand the student's knowledge about enzymes by introducing the antioxidant enzymes that are intimately involved in the prevention of cellular damage and eventual slowing of the aging process and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Energy & Enzymes: Introduction to Enzymes
Learn about the function of enzymes in biological systems in this video. Video overviews active sites, substrates, induced fit, and activation energy. [8:12]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Energy and Enzymes: Enzyme Regulation: Competitive Inhibition
This video discusses competitive inhibition and how inhibitors compete with an enzyme for a substrate. [6:29]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Energy and Enzymes: Enzyme Regulation: Noncompetitive Inhibition
A video discussing how noncompetitive inhibitors function. [4:54]
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #33: Digestive System, Part 1
Nachos are delicious. And versatile because today they're also going to help us learn a thing or two about your digestive system. Nachos can provide us with energy and raw materials, by first ingesting something nutritious, propelling it...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Enzymes
This narrated screencast explains the role enzymes play in cellular metabolism. [4:42]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Enzyme Structure
Learn about enzyme structure, and the complex proteins which make up enzymes. [0:39]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Structure and Function of Macromolecules: Enzymes
Listen to this podcast introducing the function of enzymes in the human body. [0:38]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Energy and Transport: Enzymes
Enzymes as catalysts for reactions in biological systems; discussion of substrates, active sites, induced fit, and activation energy. [8:12]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Enzyme Cofactors and Coenzymes
Learn about the proteins that can help enzymes catalyze reactions known as cofactors and coenzymes. [9:59]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gibbs Free Energy and Spontaneous Reactions
A video exploring how to use Gibbs free energy to figure out if a reaction is going to be spontaneous or not which is helpful in biology. [9:18]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Endergonic, Exergonic, Exothermic, and Endothermic
Learn how endergonic, exergonic, exothermic, and endothermic reactions play a role in biological reactions. [11:52]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Six Types of Enzymes
A video reviewing over the six types of enzymes and how they catalyze reactions. Learn how you can figure out the function of an enzyme from its name. [7:03]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Allosteric Regulation and Feedback Loops
Video talks about how allosteric regulation can affect enzyme kinetics. [6:04]
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning: Enzymes
A video describing how enzymes function as a reaction catalyst. The video shows how enzymes work through animated examples. [1:15]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Enzyme Function: Lesson 1
This lesson will describe how an enzyme is used to turn substrate into product. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Enzyme Function."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Enzyme Structure: Lesson 1
This lesson will describe that enzymes are made of proteins, and can be found in nature or can be synthesized synthetically. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Enzyme Structure."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Induced Fit: Lesson 3
This lesson will describe the process of induced fit, and explain how enzymes use it during chemical reactions. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Induced Fit."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Lock and Key Model: Lesson 1
This lesson will show that each enzyme fits to a specific structure using the lock and key model. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Lock and Key Model."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Activation Energy: Lesson 5
This lesson will define activation energy and explain how to determine the amount of activation energy from an energy diagram. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Activation Energy."