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| RESOURCE | GRADE LEVEL | MEDIA TYPE |
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Loading a GelThis video produced by WGBH provides step-by-step instructions for loading samples into an agarose gel. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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Loading a MicropipetteThis video produced by WGBH demonstrates how to load correctly a micropipette and dispense a solution. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Longevity GenesWhat is the secret to a long life? Hear from scientists using biotechnology to analyze relationships between specific genes and longevity in this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW.
Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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LysingThis video produced by WGBH provides step-by-step instructions for performing a lyses reaction to break open transformed cells. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Making an Agarose GelThis video adapted from the University of Leicester demonstrates the step-by-step process of making and pouring an agarose gel, a key component in gel electrophoresis. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Metamorphosis: Change of PlansAll animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this video segment, however, undergo very dramatic changes on their way to adulthood -- a developmental process known as metamorphosis. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript |
K-5 |
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Migration of the MonarchThis video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores the migratorial exploits of monarch butterflies. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript |
3-8 |
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Migration SensationsThis video segment from Faces of America details the process of human migration through haplogroups and shows the haplogroups of some of the series’ guests. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
MitosisThis video segment, adapted from the Interactive Secret of Life videodisc, explains the stages of mitosis, the process of dividing equally a cell's massive jumble of DNA just prior to cell division. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption |
6-12 |
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Mixing Two SolutionsThis video produced by WGBH provides step-by-step instructions on how to mix two sample solutions. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
PellagraIn this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn about pellagra, a mysterious and deadly disease that affected populations living in the American South in the early 20th century, and how a scientist experimented to find a cure. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Personal DNA TestingIn this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, take a behind-the-scenes look at the process of personal DNA testing, and hear more about the innovative Personal Genome Project. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Picking a Colony From a PlateThis video produced by WGBH illustrates how to prepare an overnight culture of transformed E. coli cells. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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A Piece of the PieThis video from the series Faces of America covers what DNA can tell us about our ethnic identities that regular genealogy might not. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
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PlatingThis video produced by WGBH details the steps to plate transformed bacterial cells on an agar plate. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Pouring an Agarose GelThis video produced by WGBH demonstrates the step-by-step process of pouring an agarose gel into a casting tray. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Preparing a ColumnThis video produced by WGBH shows a properly prepared column and demonstrates how to apply and run a solution. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Primitive Insects of the Congaree SwampIn this video segment from NatureScene, observe dragonflies and mayflies near Cedar Creek at Congaree Swamp National Park. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
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Producing PenicillinIn this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, follow two scientists and their Nobel Prize-winning efforts to cure bacterial infections using penicillin. Accessibility features: Caption |
5-12 |
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Protein PurificationThis animation produced by WGBH and Digizyme, Inc. demonstrates how a protein of interest is isolated from other contents in a transformed bacterial cell—a process called purification—using a lab technique called hydrophobic interaction chromatography. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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