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I visited the Howard Hughes Medical Institute last week.
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna: Human Chromosomes
Human chromosomes explained in this brief description of human cell biology. [0:47]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: How Tumors Grow
An excellent BioInteractive animation describing factors related to the growth of tumors with audio and text support. Strong supporting material for teachers and students.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Bio Interactive: Birth and Death of Genes
Classroom resources paired with a thirteen-minute video highlight how scientists discovered the evolutionary history of an Antarctic icefish by studying its genome.
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Viral Outbreak: Viral Geometry and Structural Diversity
Learn about the geometrical structure of three different viruses, and how these structures affect the function of each virus. [3:22]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: The Chemical Structure of Dna
Learn how the chemical properties of the DNA molecule determine its structure and function in this video. [2:45]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Viral Outbreak: The Polymerase Chain Reaction (Pcr)
Learn how a standard lab technique, polymerase chain reaction, amplifies a single or several copies of a piece of DNA. [0:55]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Fossil Record of Stickleback Evolution
A close-up look at the fossil records of the stickleback fish. [1:26]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Neuroscience: The Cochlea
Watch how sounds affect the cochlea inside the human ear in this narrated animation. [1:30]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Great Discoveries in Science: The Double Helix
The Double Helix is the story of the scientists and evidence involved in one of the most important scientific quests of the 20th century: the discovery of the structure of DNA. [16:53]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Life Cycle of Malaria, Part 2
In this lifelike narrated animation, watch what happens inside a mosquito when the malaria parasites reproduce and travel to the salivary glands, ready to infect another human host with the next bite. [4:00]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Salmonella Infection Demonstration
A demonstration of the effects of Salmonella on a cell. [1:20]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Watson Constructing Base Pair Models
See James Watson reenact his discovery of the base pairs that form the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. [1:42]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Infectious Disease: Viral Life Cycle
Watch a short, but concise clip demonstrating how a virus infects a human cell. [1:08]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Infectious Disease: u.s. Aids Epidemic
A United States map animation showing the spread of the AIDS epidemic from 1981 to 1997. [0:31]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Virtual Bacterial Id Lab
An interactive virtual lab that allows students to isolate, copy, sequence and identify bacterial DNA. Excellent supporting information and resources for teachers and students.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Bio Interactive: Electrical Activity of Neurons
Slideshow provides detailed facts, animations, and videos of the transfer of information that propagates from one neuron to the next.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Paintbrush Gene
Through video clips, demonstrations, and inquiry learn how the paintbrush gene functions in the process of evolution.
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Building Blocks of Dna
A brief introduction to the four building blocks of DNA. [0:25]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Diffusion Across Membranes
Resource offers a great explanation and animation of the processes of active and passive transport across cell membranes.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Evolution and Gene Switches
Through a series of videos, learn how modern science has uncovered an aspect of evolution involving gene switches rather than the creation of new genes.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: How the Body Uses Fat
One of the bodies main sources of energy is fat; this comprehensive slide show presentation explores the ways the body processes fat, including digestion, transport, conversion, and energy extraction.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory
The epic voyages of Darwin and Wallace led each to independently discover the natural origin of species and to formulate the theory of evolution by natural selection. [30:51]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Stopping Mosquito Borne Disease
Illustrated presentation and series of brief lecture clips help explain how infections are spread via biological vectors. The lecture focuses on the treatment and intervention for Dengue fever through mosquito eradication.