Tag Archives: genetics

2.2 Animal tissues, organs and organ systems

One Body by XVIVO (2m 14s):

Get Body Smart: superb interactive, illustrated tutorials and quizzes on human anatomy and physiology.

How much of your body is your own? – a great little quiz from the BBC

2.2.1 The human digestive system

2.2.2 The heart and blood vessels

2.2.3 Blood

2.2.4 Coronary heart disease: a non-communicable disease

2.2.5 Health issues

2.2.6 The effect of lifestyle on some non-communicable diseases

2.2.7 Cancer

Evolution (variation & selection)

VARIATION

It’s coming!

ADAPTIVE FEATURES

A lesson in Plant Adaptations from Ms Cooper (12m 15s); Specialized Leaves, a short 1m 39s video.

NATURAL SELECTION

The Evolution of Life on Earth in 24 hours:

What is Evolution? A 9m video from Stated Clearly:

What is Natural Selection? A 9m video from Stated Clearly:

How evolution works – a gentle 12m cartoon video (from Kurz Gesagt – in a nutshell) and here is Natural Selection made easy in a 9m 48s video (from potholer54).

A simulation of Natural Selection:

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Here’s Darwin’s Song from Horrible Histories and in What is Evolution? Biology teacher Ceri Evans gives a master class to students on what he says is arguably the greatest idea anybody ever had: evolution (28 mins). 2 more videos – James May’s things you need to know – Evolution (29m) & BBC Short Circuit Theory of Evolution (19m).

Finally, just for interest, a short (less than 5 minute) video clip from BBC iScience – Evolution of the Eye.

SELECTIVE BREEDING (ARTIFICAIL SELECTION)

This powerpoint covers Artificial Selection (selective breeding) – but we only need the first five slides:

Igcse biology edexcel 5.10 5.20 from Marcos Rodriguez

A lesson on Selective Breeding from Mr Dare:

Hardy-Weinberg Principle

D4 The Hardy Weinberg Principle notes – these are taken from BioNinja (with thanks).

Paul Andersen (from Bozeman High) shows you how to Solve Hardy-Weinberg Problems.

Here are three sites with practice Hardy-Weinberg questions: here, here, and here.

In Crash Course Biology #18 – Population Genetics: When Darwin met Mendel, Hank talks about population genetics including the Hardy-Weinberg equation.

The Hardy-Weinberg Principle: Watch your Ps and Qs – a video lesson with some practice questions.

IGCSE Bio Topic 17 – Inheritance

Here are key terms and some definitions: Key Terms B9

GCSE Bitesize more-or-less covers all of Variation, Inheritance & Evolution in 15m.

For self-assessment questions, with exercises and discussions, just click on the correct topic at Biology GCSE & IGCSE Question Bank. A powerpoint can be downloaded from the same site here. The s-cool revision site lets you revise the topic, summarizes the topic & tests you on it. GCSE Bitesize has revision pages (that take you through the topic), a test and an activity.

This is a great power-point that covers most of this topic, although we don’t need to know about co-dominance or pedigree charts:

10.1 Meiosis

10.1 meiosis from Bob Smullen

Here are some fantastic animated tutorials about Meiosis from McGraw Hill Education – how Meiosis works, the stages of Meiosis, Crossing-over, Independent Assortment & unique features of Meiosis.

From Sinauer Associates comes an animated, narrated tutorial on Independent Assortment; there’s also one on Independent Assortment & gamete diversity.

Mr. Andersen uses chromosome beads to simulate both Mitosis and Meiosis:

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Independent Assortment & Segregation (click to enlarge)

10.2 Inheritance

10.2 inheritance from Bob Smullen

An animated, narrated tutorial on X-linked disorders (from Sumanas) and a more difficult one: analyzing a cross (recombinants). Various activities on Genetic Disorders from Learn.Genetics.

Paul Andersen explains how Linked Genes behave using fruit flies in a 17m 22s tutorial.

POLYGENES

The science of skin color – Angela Koine Flynn, a 5m vid from TED-Ed.

Breaking the illusion of skin color, a 15m TED-Ed video from Nina Jablonski