Student Resources

Media Clips

• Media Clip 1.1 Leaping Lemurs
• Media Clip 2.1 The Elements Song
• Media Clip 3.1 Protein Structures in 3D
• Media Clip 4.1 DNA Building Blocks from Space
• Media Clip 5.1 The Inner Life of a Cell
• Media Clip 6.1 An Amoeba Eats by Phagocytosis
• Media Clip 7.1 Social Amoebas Aggregate on Cue
• Media Clip 8.1 Bioluminescence in the Deep Sea
• Media Clip 9.1 ATP Synthase in Motion
• Media Clip 10.1 Photosynthesis at Work
• Media Clip 10.2 Chloroplasts in Close-Up
• Media Clip 11.1 Mitosis: Live and Up Close
• Media Clip 12.1 Mendel's Discoveries
• Media Clip 13.1 Discovery of the Double Helix
• Media Clip 14.1 Protein Synthesis: An Epic on a Cellular Level
• Media Clip 15.1 Sickle Cells: Deformed by a Mutation
• Media Clip 16.1 The Surprising Epigenetics of Identical Twins
• Media Clip 17.1 A Big Surprise from Genomics
• Media Clip 18.1 Striking Views of Recombinant DNA Being Made
• Media Clip 19.1 Watching Evolution in Real Time
• Media Clip 19.2 Actias luna in Flight
• Media Clip 19.3 Big Brown Bats (Eptesicus fuscus) versus Actias luna
• Media Clip 19.4 Human Echolocation
• Media Clip 20.1 Morphing Arachnids
• Media Clip 21.1 The Ubiquitous Protein
• Media Clip 21.2 Spectacular Fly Development in 3D
• Media Clip 22.1 Narrowmouth Toads Calling for Mates
• Media Clip 23.1 The Age of Earth
• Media Clip 23.2 Lava Flows and Magma Explosions
• Media Clip 24.1 Cyanobacteria
• Media Clip 24.2 A Swarm of Salmonella
• Media Clip 24.3 Bacteriophages Attack E. coli
• Media Clip 25.1 A Dinoflagellate Shows Off Its Flagellum
• Media Clip 25.2 Diatoms in Action
• Media Clip 25.3 A Kelp Forest
• Media Clip 25.4 Euglenids
• Media Clip 25.5 Amoeboid Movement
• Media Clip 25.6 Plasmodial Slime Mold Growth
• Media Clip 25.7 Cellular Slime Mold Aggregation
• Media Clip 25.8 Flashing Dinoflagellates
• Media Clip 26.1 Reproductive Structures of Stoneworts
• Media Clip 26.2 Nonvascular Plant Reproduction
• Media Clip 26.3 Liverwort Life Cycle
• Media Clip 27.1 Pollen Transfer by Wind
• Media Clip 27.2 Pollen Transfer by a Bat
• Media Clip 27.3 Flower and Fruit Formation
• Media Clip 28.1 Fungal Decomposers
• Media Clip 28.2 Mind-Control Killer Fungi
• Media Clip 28.3 Time Lapse of Beer Fermentation
• Media Clip 29.1 Nervous Systems Lead to Efficient Predators
• Media Clip 29.2 Filter Feeders
• Media Clip 29.3 Detritivores
• Media Clip 29.4 Ctenophores
• Media Clip 29.5 Stunning Siphonophore: Colonial Hydrozoans
• Media Clip 30.1 Feeding with a Lophophore
• Media Clip 30.2 Molting a Cuticle
• Media Clip 30.3 Rotifer Feeding
• Media Clip 30.4 Explosive Extrusion of Ribbon Worm Proboscis
• Media Clip 30.5 Leeches Feeding on Blood
• Media Clip 30.6 Octopuses Can Pass through Small Openings
• Media Clip 30.7 Barnacles Feeding
• Media Clip 30.8 Complete Metamorphosis
• Media Clip 31.1 Sea Star Hunting Bivalves
• Media Clip 31.2 Hagfish Slime
• Media Clip 31.3 Coelacanths in the Deep Seas
• Media Clip 31.4 Answering a Mating Call
• Media Clip 31.5 Komodo Dragons Bring Down Prey
• Media Clip 31.6 Falcons in Flight
• Media Clip 31.7 Bats Feeding in Flight
• Media Clip 32.1 Rapid Growth of Brambles
• Media Clip 32.2 Cell Expansion in Root Hairs
• Media Clip 33.1 Inside the Xylem
• Media Clip 34.1 A Venus Flytrap "Snaps to It"
• Media Clip 35.1 Gibberellin Binding to Its Receptor
• Media Clip 36.1 Pollen Germination in Real Time
• Media Clip 36.2 How Plants Remember
• Media Clip 37.1 Plants Can Hear Danger
• Media Clip 38.1 Thermoregulation in Animals
• Media Clip 39.1 The Testosterone Factor
• Media Clip 40.1 The Chase Is On: Phagocyte versus Bacteria
• Media Clip 41.1 Human Ovulation
• Media Clip 42.1 Frog Gastrulation Time-Lapse
• Media Clip 43.1 Put Some ACh Into It!
• Media Clip 44.1 Into the Eye
• Media Clip 45.1 The Man with No Short-Term Memory
• Media Clip 46.1 Be Still My Beating Stem Cell Heart
• Media Clip 47.1 Sea Bed Hunting on One Breath
• Media Clip 48.1 Capillary Flow: A Tight Squeeze
• Media Clip 49.1 Following Food from Mouth to Gut
• Media Clip 50.1 Inside the Bladder
• Media Clip 51.1 Eusocial Animals
• Media Clip 52.1 Rafting to Madagascar
• Media Clip 53.1 World Population Growth
• Media Clip 54.1 Bombardier Beetle Sprays Its Enemies
• Media Clip 54.2 Lionfish "Strike" Again!
• Media Clip 55.1 A Food Web in Africa
• Media Clip 55.2 How Wolves Change Rivers
• Media Clip 56.1 Time-Lapse of Global CO2 Emissions
• Media Clip 56.2 Tracking Dead Zones from Space
• Media Clip 57.1 New Species Found in the Twenty-First Century
• Media Clip B.1 Interpreting Frequency Distributions

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