Instructional Video5:30
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Excision Repair of DNA: Nucleotide Excision Repair and Base Excision Repair

9th - Higher Ed
DNA repair mechanisms like base excision repair (BER) and nucleotide excision repair (NER) fix damage by removing and replacing affected regions. BER removes a single damaged base using glycosylases (e.g., to fix deaminated cytosine),...
Instructional Video0:45
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Ribosomes

6th - 12th
The structures inside cells that synthesize proteins. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary Films reinforce abstract...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Biointeractive: Viral Outbreak: The Polymerase Chain Reaction (Pcr)

9th - 10th
Learn how a standard lab technique, polymerase chain reaction, amplifies a single or several copies of a piece of DNA. [0:55]