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Curated Video
Tissue Culture: Growing Identical Cells for Plant Breeding and Medical Research
This is a video that explains the concept of tissue culture, which is a technique used to grow cells or tissues in a liquid or solid medium that contains nutrients. The video describes the process of tissue culture, as well as the...
msvgo
Introduction to Biotechnology
This nugget introduces you to the science of biotechnology. It briefly discusses the principles, techniques and applications of biotechnology.
Seven Dimensions
Fostering Innovation: Strategies for Success
This video discusses the importance of innovation in the industry and provides strategies for generating creative ideas and implementing them into the business. It emphasizes the need for collaborative thinking, brainstorming, and...
Professor Dave Explains
Smallpox (Variola Virus)
Smallpox is probably the biggest killer in human history, and has had a significant impact on the expansion of human civilization. It is caused by the variola virus, which is a poxvirus, so what do those look like? How do they spread and...
Curated Video
Prokaryotic Cell Division
In this live-action program viewers will learn that prokaryotes are microscopic single celled organisms including bacteria and blue-green algae and the reason they are so ubiquitous is that they multiply very rapidly.
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Curated OER
Mitosis
Watch as an animated cell goes through the process of mitosis as DNA coils and bunches into chromosomes. Once the nuclear membranes dissolve, spindles pull chromatids to opposite sides and stretch the cell. The video ends as mitosis...
Curated OER
Mitosis in Real Time
Watch as cells split beneath a microscope. This nineteen-second clip does not have narration or music, but it gives a fascinating look at mitosis. Use this in a high school biology class to demonstrate what mitosis really looks like.
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Dna Replication
Paul Andersen explains how DNA replication ensures that each cell formed during the cell cycle has an exact copy of the DNA. He describes the Meselson-Stahl experiment and how it showed that DNA copies itself through a semi-conservative...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reproduction and Cell Division: Interphase
Learn how interphase of the cell cycle and how the cell replicates its DNA before mitosis. [8:27]