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Honors Biology Videos

Chapter 1:  Exploring Life

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Slideshow Video - Part 3

- Animation - Signs of Life

- Animation - Introduction to Experimental Design

- Video - Sea Horse Camouflage

- Bozeman - Biology

- Bozeman - Scientific Method

- Bozeman - Essential Characteristics of Life are Conserved

- Bozeman - Elements of a Feedback Loop

- Bozeman - Positive and Negative Feedback Loops

- Bozeman - Homeostatic Loops

- Bozeman - Three Domains of Life

- Bozeman - Hierarchy of Life

- Bozeman - Organ Systems


Chapter 2:  The Chemical Basis of Life

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Slideshow Video - Part 3

- Animation - Atomic Number and Atomic Mass

- Animation - Electron Distribution Diagrams

- Animation - Covalent Bonds

- Animation - Formation of Ions and Ionic Bonds

- Animation - Hydrogen Bonds

- Animation - Introduction to Chemical Bonds

- Animation - Nonpolar and Polar Molecules

- Animation - Polarity of Water

- Animation - Cohesion of Water

- Animation - Acids, Bases, and pH

- Bozeman - Water & Life

- Bozeman - Water - A Polar Molecule


Chapter 3:  The Molecules of Cells

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Animation - Diversity of Carbon-Based Molecules

- Animation - Making and Breaking Polymers

- Animation - Carbohydrates

- Animation - Lipids

- Animation - Space-Filling Model of a Phospholipid

- Animation - Protein Functions

- Animation - Protein Structure

- Animation - Proteins

- Figure Walkthrough - The Structure of a Phospholipid

- Bozeman - Biological Molecules

- Bozeman - Molecules of Life

- Bozeman - Polymers

- Bozeman - Carbohydrates

- Bozeman - Lipids

- Bozeman - Proteins


Chapter 4:  A Tour of the Cell

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Slideshow Video - Part 3

- Animation - Prokaryotic Cell Structure and Function

- Animation - Cilia and Flagella

- Figure Walkthrough - Geometric Relationships Between Surface Area and Volume

- BioFlix - Tour of a Plant Cell

- BioFlix - Tour of an Animal Cell

- Bozeman - A Tour of the Cell

- Bozeman - Cellular Organelles

- Bozeman - Compartmentalization

- Bozeman - Why Are Cells Small?


Chapter 5a:  The Working Cell

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Animation - Functions of the Plasma Membrane

- Animation - Structure of the Plasma Membrane

- Animation - Selective Permeability of Membranes

- Animation - Aquaporin in a Phospholipid Bilayer

- Animation - Single Aquaporin

- Animation - Diffusion

- Animation - Facilitated Diffusion

- Animation - Osmosis and Water Balance in Cells

- Animation - Active Transport

- Animation - Exocytosis and Endocytosis

- Animation - Enzymes:  Competitive Inhibition

- Animation - Enzymes:  Noncompetitive Inhibition

- Animation - Enzymes:  Steps in a Reaction

- Animation - How Enzymes Work

- Figure Walkthrough - Osmosis

- BioFlix - Membrane Transport

- Bozeman - The Cell Membrane

- Bozeman - Cell Membranes

- Bozeman - Transport Across Cell Membranes

- Bozeman - Osmosis Demo

- Bozeman - Enzymes


Chapters 5b - 7:  Cellular Energetics

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Slideshow Video - Part 3

- Animation - Energy Transformations

- Animation - Exergonic and Endergonic Reactions

- Animation - Energy Coupling

- Animation - Metabolism Overview

- Animation - Space-Filling Model of ATP

- Animation - Stick Model of ATP

- Animation - The Structure of ATP

- Animation - Energy Flow and Chemical Recycling

- Animation - Light Energy and Pigments

- Animation - Space-Filling Model of Chlorophyll

- Animation - Overview of Cellular Respiration

- Animation - ATP Yield from Cellular Respiration

- BioFlix - Photosynthesis

- BioFlix - Cellular Respiration

- Bozeman - Bioenergetics

- Bozeman - Gibbs Free Energy

- Bozeman - Life Requires Free Energy

- Bozeman - Coupled Reactions

- Bozeman - ATP:  Adenosine Triphosphate

- Bozeman - Photosynthesis and Respiration

- Bozeman - Photosynthesis

- Bozeman - Cellular Respiration

- Bozeman - The Importance of Oxygen

- Bozeman - Anaerobic Respiration


Chapters 13 & 14:  How Populations Evolve; The Origin of Species

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Slideshow Video - Part 3

- Slideshow Video - Part 4

- Slideshow Video - Part 5

- Slideshow Video - Part 6

- Animation - Causes of Evolutionary Change

- Video - Sea Horse Camouflage

- Video - Prezygotic Barriers to Mating in Galápagos Finches by Peter and Rosemary Grant

- Figure Walkthrough - Tree Thinking:  Information Provided in an Evolutionary Tree

- HHMI BioInteractive - The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory

- BioFlix - Natural Selection, Genetic Drift, and Gene Flow

- BioFlix - Allele Frequencies

- Bozeman - Natural Selection

- Bozeman - Examples of Natural Selection

- Bozeman - Selection

- Bozeman - Scientific Evidence for Evolution

- Bozeman - Evidence for Evolution II

- Bozeman - Evolution Continues

- Bozeman - Speciation

- Bozeman - Genetic Drift

- Bozeman - Microevolution

- Bozeman - Hardy-Weinberg Equation

- Bozeman - Solving Hardy-Weinberg Problems


Chapter 15:  Phylogeny and the Tree of Life; Tracing Evolutionary History

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Slideshow Video - Part 3

- Animation - Classification Schemes

- Animation - Overview of Macroevolution

- Animation - The Geologic Record

- Animation - Structure and Reproduction of Bacteria

- Animation - Phage Lysogenic and Lytic Cycles

- Animation - Phage Lytic Cycle

- Animation - Retrovirus (HIV) Replicative Cycle

- Animation - Simplified Viral Replicative Cycle

- Figure Walkthrough - Using Derived Characters to Infer Phylogeny

- Figure Walkthrough - A Hypothesis for the Origin of Mitochondria and Plastids Through Serial Endosymbiosis

- HHMI BioInteractive - Plate Tectonics

- HHMI BioInteractive - Animated Life:  Pangea, Wegener, and Continental Drift

- HHMI BioInteractive - Biology of SARS-CoV-2

- Bozeman - Cladograms

- Bozeman - Phylogenetics

- Bozeman - Archaea

- Bozeman - Bacteria

- Bozeman - Eukarya

- Bozeman - Protists

- Bozeman - Fungi

- Bozeman - Plants

- Bozeman - Animals

- Bozeman - Abiogenesis

- Bozeman - The Origin of Life - Scientific Evidence

- Bozeman - Endosymbiosis

- Bozeman -Viruses

- Bozeman - Viral Replication


Chapter 8:  Chromosomes

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Slideshow Video - Part 3

- Slideshow Video - Part 4

- Animation - Cell Division in Bacteria

- Animation - Cytokinesis

- Animation - Mitosis

- Animation - The Cell Cycle

- Animation - Control of the Cell Cycle

- Animation - Asexual Reproduction

- Animation - The Human Life Cycle

- Animation - Meiosis

- Animation - Overview of Meiosis

- Animation - Genetic Variation from Crossing Over

- Animation - Genetic Variation from Independent Assortment of Chromosomes

- Animation - Genetic Variation from Random Fertilization

- Video - Animal Mitosis (Time-Lapse)

- Figure Walkthrough - Two Important Checkpoints

- Figure Walkthrough - A Comparison of Mitosis and Meiosis

- BioFlix - Mitosis

- BioFlix - Chromosome Duplication

- BioFlix - Meiosis

- BioFlix - Chromosomes

- HHMI BioInteractive - How Tumors Grow

- Bozeman - Cell Cycle, Mitosis, and Meiosis

- Bozeman - Mechanisms That Increase Genetic Variation

- Bozeman - What are Chromosomes?

- Bozeman - Diploid vs Haploid

- Bozeman - Cell Cycle, Mitosis, and Meiosis

- Bozeman - Cell Division

- Bozeman - Mitosis

- Bozeman - Phases of Mitosis

- Bozeman - Meiosis

- Bozeman - Phases of Meiosis

- Bozeman - Mechanisms that Increase Genetic Variation

- Bozeman - What is Cancer?


Chapter 9:  Patterns of Inheritance

- Genetics Problem Set Video - Part 1 - Simple Punnett Squares

- Genetics Problem Set Video - Part 2 - Codominance and Incomplete Dominance

- Genetics Problem Set Video - Part 3 - Blood Types

- Genetics Problem Set Video - Part 4 - Dihybrid Punnett Squares

- Genetics Problem Set Video - Part 5 - Sex-Linked Punnett Squares

- Genetics Problem Set Video - Part 6 - Family Pedigrees

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Animation - Independent Assortment

- Animation - Mendel's Cross of One Character:  Flower Color

- Animation - Cross of One Character in "MendAliens"

- Animation - Simplified Crosses of One Character in Humans

- Animation - Mendel's Cross of Two Characters:  Seed Shape and Seed Color

- Animation - Crosses of Two Characters in "MendAliens"

- Animation - A Simplified Cross of Two Characters in Humans

- Animation - Testcross in "MendAliens"

- Animation - Incomplete Dominance in "MendAliens"

- Animation - X-Linked Genes in "MendAliens"

- Animation - Alterations of Chromosome Structure

- Animation - The Chromosomal Basis of Independent Assortment

- Figure Walkthrough - Alleles, Alternative Versions of a Gene

- Figure Walkthrough - The chromosomal Basis of Mendel's Laws

- Bozeman - Genetics

- Bozeman - Mendelian Genetics

- Bozeman - Chromosomal Inheritance

- Bozeman - Beginner's Guide to Punnett Squares

- Bozeman - Chromosomal Genetics

- Bozeman - Blood Types

- Bozeman - Probability in Genetics

- Bozeman - Advanced Genetics


Chapter 10:  Molecular Biology of the Gene

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Slideshow Video - Part 3

- Slideshow Video - Part 4

- Slideshow Video - Part 5

- Animation - Nucleic Acid Structure

- Animation - DNA and RNA Structure

- Animation - DNA Double Helix

- Animation - The Hershey-Chase Experiment

- Animation - DNA Replication:  A Closer Look

- Animation - DNA Replication:  An Overview

- Animation - Overview of Protein Synthesis in Eukaryotes

- Animation - The Genetic Code

- Animation - Elongation of the RNA Strand

- Animation - Overview of Transcription

- Animation - Elongation Cycle of Translation

- Animation - Initiation of Translation

- Animation - Overview of Translation

- Animation - Ribosomes

- Animation - Termination of Translation

- Animation - Transfer RNA

- Animation - Mutation Types

- Animation - Creating Recombinant DNA

- Animation - Gel Electrophoresis of DNA

- Animation - Recombinant DNA

- Animation - Restriction Enzymes

- Animation - Genetic Profiles

- Figure Walkthrough - Types of Small-Scale Mutations That Affect mRNA Sequence

- BioFlix - DNA Replication

- BioFlix - Protein Synthesis

- Bozeman - Nucleic Acids

- Bozeman - DNA and RNA - Part 1

- Bozeman - DNA and RNA - Part 2

- Bozeman - What is DNA?

- Bozeman - DNA Replication

- Bozeman - Meselson-Stahl Experiment

- Bozeman - Secret of Life

- Bozeman - Transcription & Translation

- Bozeman - Genotypes and Phenotypes

- Bozeman - Mutations

- Bozeman - DNA Fingerprinting

- Bozeman - Molecular Biology


Chapters 34 - 38:  The Biosphere & Ecosystems; Populations & Communities; Conservation Biology

- Slideshow Video - Part 1

- Slideshow Video - Part 2

- Slideshow Video - Part 3

- Slideshow Video - Part 4

- Slideshow Video - Part 5

- Slideshow Video - Part 6

- Animation - Terrestrial Biomes

- Animation - Energy Flow and Chemical Cycling

- Animation - The Nitrogen Cycle

- Animation - Techniques for Estimating Population Density and Size

- Animation - The Global Carbon Cycle and the Greenhouse Effect

- Animation - Water Pollution from Nitrates

- Figure Walkthrough - Seasonal Variation in Sunlight Intensity

- Figure Walkthrough - An Antarctic Marine Food Web

- Figure Walkthrough - An Overview of Energy and Nutrient Dynamics in an Ecosystem

- Figure Walkthrough - The Greenhouse Effect

- BioFlix - The Carbon Cycle

- BioFlix - Population Ecology

- Bozeman - Ecosystems

- Bozeman - Environmental Matter Exchange

- Bozeman - Niche

- Bozeman - Ecological Succession

- Bozeman - Biogeochemical Cycling

- Bozeman - Biotic and Abiotic Factors

- Bozeman - Populations

- Bozeman - Communities

- Bozeman - Exponential Growth

- Bozeman - Logistic Growth

- Bozeman - r and K Selection

- Bozeman - Biodiversity

- Bozeman - Ecosystem Change

- Bozeman - The Greenhouse Effect


Chapter 35:  Behavioral Adaptations to the Environment

- Animation - Digger Wasps and Landmarks

- Video - Albatross Courtship Ritual

- Video - Blue-footed Boobies Courtship Ritual

- Video - Giraffe Courtship Ritual

- Video - Bee Pollinating

- Video - Chimp Cracking Nut

- Video - Ducklings

- Video - Agonistic Behavior in Wolves

- Video - Agonistic Behavior in a Chimp

- Video - Snake Ritual Wrestling

- HHMI BioInteractive - Studying Elephant Communication

- HHMI BioInteractive - How Lizards Find Their Way Home

- Bozeman - Animal Behavior

- Bozeman - Aposematic Coloration