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Uses examples from various insect orders to show the basic design of a hard outer skeleton, jointed legs and specialised mouthparts serves a wealth of different lifestyles. Contrasts the life histories of...
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...
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...
Two studies examine factors that regulate plant growth. Phototropism is the growth of a plant stem towards the light. The validity of the Cholodney-Went theory of phototropism is considered in the light of...
Atlantic salmon migrate between freshwater and the sea at least twice during their lives: once as young smolts migrating down to the sea, and again as adults returning to the Scottish rivers to spawn. This...
Follows a link between the cells involved in human colour vision and a rather unusual bacterium from the Dead Sea. Dr Jim Bowmaker, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, describes the techniques for looking at...
Using scanning electron microscopy, examines Cretaceous fossil fish whose internal structure, e.g. gill lamellae, musculature, etc. had been preserved by bacteria-induced phosphatisation in the tissue within...
Uses electromyography (EMB) to examine the evolution of man from the hominid-pongid split about 7.5 million years ago. By precisely determining muscle function in humans and apes, and examining fossil bones...
Examines structure and functions of spinal cord, medulla, mid-brain, thalamus and cerebrum, and compares nervous system structures and responses in various animals. This is a re-edited version with English...
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