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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
An exploration of the bee colony collapse disorder. [7:45]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Animation: Triplet Code
Once the structure of DNA was discovered, the next challenge was determining how the sequence of letters coded for the 20 amino acids could make protein. In theory, one or two letters can only code for 4 or 16 amino acids, respectively....
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Dengue Virus Life Cycle
In this narrated animation, watch the dengue virus undergo RNA replication and protein transcription as it matures inside a human cell ultimately causing the infectious disease. [4:12]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Dna: Animations
A menu of video animations of DNA replication, transcription, structure, sequencing, and related topics.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Making of the Fittest: Co Evolution of Genes & Culture
Follow human geneticist Spencer Wells, Director of the Genographic Project of the National Geographic Society, as he tracks down the genetic changes associated with the ability to digest lactose as adults, tracing the origin of the trait...
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Animation: Translation
See this close-up animation showing how ribosomes carry out translation to make a particular proteins. [3:04]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Regulation of Eukaryotic Dna Transcription
General transcription factors, activators, and repressors interact to regulate the transcription of eukaryotic DNA into RNA. [2:05]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna: Sickle Cell Anemia
Find out about the genetic blood disorder, sickle cell anemia, in this short narration. [0:59]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Neuroscience: Development of the Human Embryonic Brain
A narrated animation showing the growth of the human brain during fetal development. [1:40]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna Damage and Mutations
A concise overview of what happens when a mutation occurs in our DNA, and how that causes some cancers. [1:06]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: The Geologic Carbon Cycle
A college-level video lecture explaining and discussing the carbon cycle. Gives an interesting perspective on the chemistry of the carbon cycle and how essential it is to the survival of life on Earth. [6:20]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna: Dna Packaging
This narrated animation allows the learner to understand how six feet of DNA can be tightly packed to fit inside the nucleus of every human cell. [1:43]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Life Cycle of Malaria, Part 1
In this lifelike animation, watch what happens inside a host when a malaria parasite-carrying mosquito bites a human. [4:17]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna Cloning With Plasmids
Find out about genetic engineering, and how scientists have found a way to insert new genes into bacterial DNA. [1:12]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Viral Outbreak: Dengue Fever Re Emergence in the Americas
See how far the dengue fever virus has spread throughout the Americas since the 1960s. [0:24]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna Replication (Basic Detail)
Using information from molecular research, this 3-D animation shows how DNA is replicated at the molecular level. It involves an enzyme that unwinds the DNA and other enzymes that copy the two resulting strands. [1:07]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Greenhouse Effect
This video/slideshow provides an explanation that explains how greenhouse gases that cause further warming. [2:14]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Hiv Life Cycle
This video/slideshow helps you discover exactly how HIV infects a cell and replicates itself using reverse transcriptase and the host's cellular machinery. [4:52]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Stem Cells: Cytoplasmic Factors
Find out how cytoplasmic factors in a developing embryo play a vital role in determining which genes to turn on and off for appropriate cell development. [0:56]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Gene Switch
In this brief video clip, you will be exposed to the complexities of gene switches and how they work within the body. An overview of teaching clips is included.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: From Birds to People: The West Nile Virus Story
This video/slideshow helps you discover how the West Nile virus infects mosquitoes, birds, and people-with very different consequences. Click on the "Start Click and Learn icon.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Wing Morph
Through video clips, demonstrations, and inquiry learn how the wing morph functions in the process of evolution. [0:29]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Ppar Gamma Activation in the Fat Cell
PPAR-gamma allows patients who are insulin resistant to be insulin sensitive. See how PPAR-gamma works in a fat cell. Teaching tips included. Quicktime and Windows Media Player formats.
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Planaria Regeneration Activity [Pdf]
Learn about regeneration by working with planaria, a freshwater flatworm. Discover how long it takes for the flatworm to regenerate a head.