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Looks at three aspects of development that take place in the first few months of life. The cardiovascular system is already fully developed at birth, but the neonate’s first breaths trigger important...
Using simple demonstrations and time-lapse photography explains the principles underlying the structures of seedlings, shoots, herbaceous plants, trees and leaves. Using the microscope, examines how these...
A review of our knowledge of how plants utilise sunlight, including the research that led to the 1988 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Plants produce oxygen when exposed to light, and produce starch. The green...
Many organic compounds which are otherwise chemically identical are related to each other as the left hand is to the right. This molecular handedness can be vitally important when synthesising drugs....
Shows the structure of the vertebrate kidney, and uses in vivo renal micropuncture techniques to discover how the kidney functions. After showing what happens along the various sections of the kidney...
Compares the physiological adaptations made by a variety of diving mammals (whales, seals, dolphins) to water. The adaptations are found mainly in the thermo-regulatory and circulatory systems. Compares the...
J Z Young’s identification of the squid giant axon in the 1930s was the foundation of the study of how we might learn about our own nervous systems from the study of those of other animals. Archive film...
Explains the mechanisms that control the operation of human nerves, including the formation and propagation of action potentials, the action of voltage activated ion gates and ligand activated ion gates, the...
Looks at the simple patterns that underlie the myriad diversity of form in plants and flowers. Despite apparent complexity most leaf patterns and flowers are variations on three basic patterns, which are...
Based on research being carried out at the Developmental Biology Center, University of California at Irvine, the film discusses the development of the peripheral and central nervous system in chicks,...
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