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Explores aspects of heredity, covering topics such as Mendel’s pea plant experiments and the principles of heredity; chromosonal inheritance illustrated by Walter Sutton and Thomas Morgan experiments on...
A presentation centred on the work of Gregor Johann Mendel. Includes biographical material; Mendel’s pure-breeding pea plant; self-fertilising pea plants; the seven traits of Mendel’s pea plants;...
A general overview of human heredity and genetic risk, illustrated with examples of several congenital diseases. Explains genetic tests such as the DNA test and antenatal diagnosis and discusses their...
A Royal Institution Discourse by Professor John Maynard Smith about heredity and DNA, the essential features of life. Heredity is the property that like begets like, DNA stores and transmits genetic...
Importance of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in heredity; components of a nucleotide and a poly-nucleotide; complementary bases; structure of DNA; splitting and replication of DNA molecule.
Side 1: Mendel and his experiments. Side 2: Chromosome basis of genetics. Provides a background to Mendelism, outlining the work on plant breeding up to the middle of the 19th century, and discusses the...
Examines the importance of proteins as the basic building blocks of life and the role of protein sysnthesis in all living things. In six 10-minute segments: Protein: the Stuff of Life; DNA: the Molecule of...
Shows human life processes by means of interactive animations. Sixteen modules cover cystic fibrosis, active transport, life span and lifestyle, muscle contraction, evolution of the heart, smoking and...
Dr Christopher Green discusses the problem of attention deficit disorder (ADD), which affects learning behaviour and family relationships. Although not fully recognised in the UK, discussion about the...
Follows one of sciences’ most famous biologists, Charles Darwin, on the historic round-the-world voyage that prompted his ideas on evolution, the process of biological change. Almost 100 years later,...
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