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  1. Two Classical Operations on Amphibian Embryos (1971 Film)

    Director
    L Hamilton
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Demonstrates experimental procedure, using hair loops and glass needles, in removing the neural crest in the ‘Axolotl’ and in implanting the dorsal lip of the blastopore in ‘Xenopus’.*

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  2. Nuclear Transfer in Amphibia (1964 Film)

    Director
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A detailed description of the technique for the transfer of a donor nucleus into a previously enucleated amphibian egg. The essential steps in Briggs and King’s procedure for nuclear transfer in the...

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  3. Introduction to the Class Amphibia (1982 Multimedia)

    Producer
    David W MacDonald
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, 22 slides. col.

    Examples include the West African caecilian, a worm-like burrowing creature; the poisonous arrow frog ‘Dendrobates sp’; a desert-living frog ‘Cyclorana platycephalus’; the neotonous amphibian, the...

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  4. Gastrulation and Neurulation in the Amphibian Embryo ('Xenopus Laevis’) (1970 Film)

    Producer
    John A Sharp; D Tarin
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Gastrulation and neurulation are studied by time-lapse sequences, stereoscan (3-dimensional) pictures of the cell surfaces and by sections examined under both the light and the transmission electron...

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  5. Becoming (2018)

    Director
    Jan van Ijken
    Subject
    Biology

    A short film about the genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the ‘making of’ an Alpine Newt in its transparant egg from the first cell division to hatching. A single cell is...

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  6. Genetic Code, The: Transcription, Protein Synthesis, Mutations (199 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min.

    Covers the three areas of transcription, protein synthesis, and mutations, using mainly computer-generated graphics. After an initial sequence showing the uses of proteins in living cells, the genetic code...

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  7. Life on Earth (13 Parts) (1979 Video)

    Producer
    Christopher Parson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 13 x 55 min.

    Series tracing the development of life from its earliest beginnings through single cell forms to the final emergence of man. Filmed in more than 100 locations around the world. 1: The beginnings of life on...

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