Biology - Genetics
Offered By: Professor Dave Explains via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction to Biology: What is Life?.
The Origin of Life on Earth.
Prokaryotic Cells: The Simplest Kind of Life.
Eukaryotic Cells Part 1: Animal Cells and Endosymbiotic Theory.
Eukaryotic Cells Part 2: Plant Cells.
The Cell Cycle and its Regulation.
Mitosis: How One Cell Becomes Two.
Meiosis, Gametes, and the Human Life Cycle.
Mendelian Genetics and Punnett Squares.
Chromosome Structure and Organization.
Regulation of Gene Expression: Operons, Epigenetics, and Transcription Factors.
Viruses: Molecular Hijackers.
Unicellular Life Part 1: Bacteria.
Unicellular Life Part 2: Archaea and Protists.
The Origin of Multicellular Life: Cell Specialization and Animal Development.
Charles Darwin's Idea: Descent With Modification.
The Evolution of Populations: Natural Selection, Genetic Drift, and Gene Flow.
Phylogeny and the Tree of Life.
Biotechnology: Genetic Modification, Cloning, Stem Cells, and Beyond.
Visualizing a Nucleosome in Virtual Reality.
Anaerobic Respiration and Fermentation.
Apoptosis: Programmed Cell Death.
Beyond Mendelian Genetics: Complex Patterns of Inheritance.
Inheritance of X-Linked Genes.
Gene Linkage and Genetic Maps.
Alteration of Chromosome Number and Structure.
Gel Electrophoresis.
Gene Expression Analysis and DNA Microarray Assays.
Gene Therapy.
Types of Speciation: Allopatric, Sympatric, Peripatric, and Parapatric.
Mechanisms of Natural Selection: Altruism and Kin Selection.
Mechanisms of Natural Selection Part 1: Types of Sexual Selection.
Mechanisms of Natural Selection Part 2: Conflict, Spite, and Reciprocity.
Synthetic Biology and Materials Science Part 1: Biological Manufacturing.
Synthetic Biology and Materials Science Part 2: Nature-Made Plastics.
CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology.
Taught by
Professor Dave Explains
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