School Without Walls Biology

Per class request, here are the videos we watched on genetics and mitosis/meiosis.

Molecular Genetics

• http://www.dnai.org/a/index.html
  We watched the videos for Copying the Code and Reading the Code (transcription and translation).
• http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/secretsofthesequence/playlist_frame.asp
  We watched the “Secret of Life” video. (Scroll down!)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8gfPSSAgtU
  This WILL NOT WORK on the school computer. A video done by students at Bell Multicultural of DNA replication.
• http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olc/dl/120076/bio21.swf
  Video about DNA first being characterized as genetic material. (Didn’t watch in class.)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfZ8o9D1tus&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpwjZX_z5rg
  DNA replication videos – will not work on school network.
• http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olc/dl/120076/bio22.swf
  Experiment on the nature of DNA replication.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj9cdVeIntY
• Video of DNA being wrapped into chromosomes. Will NOT work on school computers. Also available at DNAi.org under “Controlling the Code.”
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/2/l_012_02.html
  Mutations and evolution – Sickle Cell Mutation video
• http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/10418-molecules-and-evolution-types-of-genetic-mutations-video.htm
  Types of genetic mutations video

Mitosis and Cancer

• http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078759864/student_view0/brain_pop_movies.html#
  We watched the video on mitosis.

• http://learn.hamamatsu.com/galleries/digitalvideo/spinningdisk/ccl2473laser/CCL2-EGFP-EB3-100x-3s.html
  Video of microtubules (same material as spindle fibers!)

• http://learn.hamamatsu.com/galleries/digitalvideo/spinningdisk/llcpk1lumen/LLC-PK1-EGFP-Tubulin-mCherry-H2B-100x-3s.html
  Video of epithelial cells dividing.

• http://learn.hamamatsu.com/galleries/digitalvideo/spinningdisk/llcpk1lumen/LLC-PK1-mEmerald-EB3-mCherry-H2B-100x-04s.html
  Video of epithelial cells dividing.
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cancer/grows.htm
  A good animation of how cancer grows and how it relates to mitosis.
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cancer/program.htm
  Cancer Warrior – An hour-long video series on drug development and cancer.
• http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html
  Practice identifying cells at various phases in mitosis.
• http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/chapter12/animations.html#
  We watched the videos on mitosis vs. meiosis, stages of meiosis, and unique features of meiosis.
• http://www.hippocampus.org/Biology;jsessionid=497C3BD4D6D0D26B5289F24EF0098468
  We watched the videos on mitosis and on sources of genetic variation.

Meiosis and genetic variation

• http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/chapter12/animations.html#
  We watched the videos on mitosis vs. meiosis, stages of meiosis, and unique features of meiosis.

• http://www.hippocampus.org/Biology;jsessionid=497C3BD4D6D0D26B5289F24EF0098468
  We watched the videos on mitosis and on sources of genetic variation.

• http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/activities/karyotyping/karyotyping2.html
  We did the karyotypes for patients A and B (and C, in some classes).

• http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/landsteiner.htm
  Blood typing game we played in class.
• http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/blood/
  Info on genes and bloodtype.