Crash Course Biology
Biology (2012)
In 40 videos, Hank Green teaches you biology! This course is based on the AP Biology curriculum and also covers some introductory anatomy. By the end of this course, you will be able to:
* Recognize the chemicals, molecules, and structures that make up living things * Understand the processes that keep organisms alive and drive cellular reproduction
* Identify evidence of evolution and explain its role in speciation, development, and anatomy
* Describe the characteristics of the different kingdoms and some phyla that make up the taxonomy of living things
* Predict how the interactions between molecules, cells, organisms, and populations contribute to larger systems
* Recognize the chemicals, molecules, and structures that make up living things * Understand the processes that keep organisms alive and drive cellular reproduction
* Identify evidence of evolution and explain its role in speciation, development, and anatomy
* Describe the characteristics of the different kingdoms and some phyla that make up the taxonomy of living things
* Predict how the interactions between molecules, cells, organisms, and populations contribute to larger systems
Where to Watch Biology (2012)
40 Episodes
- That's Why Carbon Is A Tramp
E1That's Why Carbon Is A TrampAnd thus begins the most revolutionary biology course in history. Come and learn about covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds. What about electron orbitals, the octet rule, and what does it all have to do with a mad man named Gilbert Lewis? It's all contained within. - DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word Ever
E11DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word EverHank imagines himself breaking into the Hot Pockets factory to steal their secret recipes and instruction manuals in order to help us understand how the processes known as DNA transcription and translation allow our cells to build proteins. - Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth
E17Evolutionary Development: Chicken TeethHank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes evolved. - Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, & Octopuses
E22Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, & OctopusesHank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex molluscs, octopuses and squid. We differentiate them by the number of tissue layers they have, and by the complexity of those layers. - Chordates
E24ChordatesHank introduces us to ourselves by taking us on a journey through the fascinatingly diverse phyla known as chordata. And the next time someone asks you who you are, you can give them the facts: you're a mammalian amniotic tetrapodal sarcopterygian osteichthyen gnathostomal vertebrate cranial chordate. - Old & Odd: Archaea, Bacteria & Protists
E35Old & Odd: Archaea, Bacteria & ProtistsHank veers away from human anatomy to teach us about the (mostly) single-celled organisms that make up two of the three taxonomic domains of life, and one of the four kingdoms: Archaea, Bacteria, and Protists. They are by far the most abundant organisms on Earth, and are our oldest, oddest relatives. - The Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations
E36The Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of GenerationsHank introduces us to nonvascular plants - liverworts, hornworts & mosses - which have bizarre features, kooky habits, and strange sex lives. Nonvascular plants inherited their reproductive cycle from algae, but have perfected it to the point where it is now used by all plants in one way or another, and has even left traces in our own reproductive systems. - Vascular Plants = Winning!
E37Vascular Plants = Winning!Hank introduces us to one of the most diverse and important families in the tree of life - the vascular plants. These plants have found tremendous success and the their secret is also their defining trait: conductive tissues that can take food and water from one part of a plant to another part. Though it sounds simple, the ability to move nutrients and water from one part of an organism to another was a evolutionary breakthrough for vascular plants, allowing them to grow exponentially larger, store food for lean times, and develop features that allowed them to spread farther and faster. Plants dominated the earth long before animals even showed up, and even today hold the world records for the largest, most massive, and oldest organisms on the planet. - The Plants & The Bees: Plant Reproduction
E38The Plants & The Bees: Plant ReproductionHank gets into the dirty details about vascular plant reproduction: they use the basic alternation of generations developed by nonvascular plants 470 million years ago, but they've tricked it out so that it works a whole lot differently compared to the way it did back in the Ordovician swamps where it got its start. Here's how the vascular plants (ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms) do it. - Fungi: Death Becomes Them
E39Fungi: Death Becomes ThemDeath is what fungi are all about. By feasting on the deceased remains of almost all organisms on the planet, converting the organic matter back into soil from which new life will spring, they perform perhaps the most vital function in the global food web. Fungi, which thrive on death, make all life possible. - Ecology - Rules for Living on Earth
E40Ecology - Rules for Living on EarthHank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been interacting with each other all the time, every day, since life on this planet began, and these interactions depend mostly on just two things... Learn what they are as Crash Course Biology takes its final voyage outside the body and into the entire world.
