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Study Guide for Test 1

1. Physicist Richard Feynman explains the scientific method
2. Read the Myths Of Science: hypothesis vs. theory, & why the 1st doesn't become the 2nd
3. How NOT to do science
   • Misbehaving Scientists: Cope & Marsh fought about dinosaurs (with dynamite!)
   • Misbehaving Scientists: Faking an HIV cure to get grant money
   • Misbehaving Scientists: theft and the structure of DNA
   • Misbehaving Scientists: reporting stuff without verifying it ( neutrinos, arsenic, fusion)
   • Some ways to tell spot fake science and frauds
4. Essential Biology disscusses some of the properties of life
5. Hank Green explains taxonomy
6. Mary Poffenroth: Taxonomy
, Domains and Scientific names
7. Taxonomy Fail!!! - Don't be a Hoser!!!
8. Archea, Bacteria, Protista
9. bright pink halophilic archea
10. Mary Poffenroth explains heterotrophs and autotrophs
11. Alexis Danis on the endosymbiont theory

1. textbook animations: Types of Bonds, Salts Dissolving in Water, Acids, Bases and pH, peptide bonds, protein structure
2. Covalent Bonds, Ionic Bonds, Carbon
3. Properties of Water
4. Biological molecules - lipids, proteins, carbohydrates
5. Nucleic Acids (DNA and RNA)
6. This video explains how proteins denature, and shows their primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure
7. Mary Poffenroth: Trophic Levels, Producers and Consumers

Study Guide for Test 2

1. online guides to show the parts of bacterial, animal and plant cells.
2. Andy Orffkut's awesome song about chlamydomonas
3. Animal Cells
4. plant cells
5. ABC/Krulwich on Cells
6. Alexis Danis on mitochondria and their DNA
7. Paul Anderson gives a tour of the cell
8. Mary Poffenroth explains cell theory, animal vs. plant cells, mitochondria, ribosomes, cytoskeleton, plasma membrane, , lysosomes, nucleus,
9. textbook animation: vessicle budding and organelle endosymbiosis
10. this is the actual harvard animation that krulwich was talking about
11. Krulwich discusses frog legs and dancing squid

1. textbook animations: Active and Passive transport, Exocytosis and Endocytosis, Signaling Molecules
2. Mary Poffenroth discusses membranes and the difference betweendiffusion and osmosis
3. Hank Green discusses membranes, diffusion, and transport
4. Japanese Subway
5. less exciting, but more nicely illustrated video on the plasma membrane
6. another video on active and passive transport
7. Biology Essentials - membranes an DNA extraction
8. the Ricochet Science videos on diffusion, Tonicity/Osmosis

Study Guide for Test 3

1. textbook animations:
2. Mary Poffenroth explains heterotrophs and autotrophs
photosynthesis and cellular respiration
3. Hank Green explains ATP and respiration
4. Mary Poffenroth gives a brief overview of mitochondria
5. nice Gradients and ATP animation
6. Hank Green explains photosynthesis
7. very detailed (like bio majors detailed) photosynthesis song
8. Paul Anderson explains photosynthesis
9. paper chromatography and RF values (like we use in the photosynthesis lab)

1. Textbook animation: Enzyme catalysis
2. Mary Poffenroth gives a light overview of enzymes
3. Biology essentials: Paul Anderson explains Enzymes
4. learn about enzyme inhibition using Linkin Park and HALO
5. another Competative and allosteric inhibitor video (without the annoying mallcore music)
6. How HIV uses enzymes, and how we can inhibit those enzymes
7. an annoying overly cute enzyme video good info, but she sounds like she thinks her listeners are third graders
8. How temperature and pH affect enzyme activity

1. textbook animations: Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Cell Division, Meiosis
2. Hank Green on Mitosis and Meiosis
3. Paul Andersen explains cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis and illustrates it by using beads
4. Stages of Mitosis(Lady Gaga Parody)
5. the Ricochet Science videos on mitosis, meiosis, spermatogenesis, and oogenesis
6. TEDex talk explaining the many weird ways that animals gender is determined

Study Guide for Test 4

1. Mary Poffenroth explains Punnett Squares
2. Mary Poffenroth on Gregor Mendel
3. Paul Anderson explains Punnett Squares
4. Brightstorm videos on genotype, phenotype, allele, gene expression, incomplete dominance and Punnett Squares
5. khanacademy discusses Punnette Squares
6. Myths of Human Genetics
7. three links on cat fur genetics

1. Heredity
2. How to solve genetics problems
3. Interactive Genetics Problems
4. Interactive DNA puzzles
5. Epigenetics: Nova special(1 hour long)
6. more on epigenetics

Study Guide for Test 5

1. a good description of the structure of DNA
2. Hank Green: DNA
3. NDSU virtual cell: Gene expression
4. NDSU virtual cell: lac operon
5. bozeman biology: gene regulation

1. Amoeba Sisters:
2. making proteins
3. Hank Green: DNA transcription and translation
4. Frameshift Mutations (insertions and deletions)
5. more on frameshift mutations
6. great thread: watch molecular biologists argue about "junk DNA" and the ENCODE Project
7. variations in the genetic code
8. a detailed list of the different genetic codes

1. Restriction Enzymes (Part 1 Part 2)
2. PCR explained
3. PCR Song
4. PCR primers
5. Gel electrophoresis, electrophoresis
6. Southern Blotting
7. DNA fingerprinting
8. Why the anti-GMO movement is also anti-empiricist
9. Mary Poffenroth on stem cells and GMOs
10. Christie Wilcox on GMO safety
11. DNews: cloning and De-extinction
12. Carl Zimmer's article on article on deextinction
13. Alexis Danis on De-extinction (original talk here)
14. DNews on the kickstarter for bioluminescent plants
15. DNews on the use of GFP gene to make sheep, monkeys, and kittens glow
16. SciShow: why have scientists been making glowing organisms

Study Guide for Test 6

1. The awesomeness of Alfred Russell Wallace explained using puppets
2. Christie Wilcox's clear, concise explanation of the relationships between mutations, chance, natural selection, genetic drift and evolution
3. DNews: computer modeling of evolution without competion
4. Alexis Danis: genome alignment)
5. Darwin really liked to talk about pigeons
6. Hank Green explains natural selection, speciation, population genetics, Evolution, and evolutionary development,
7. Paul Anderson has two videos on the evidence for evolution, and also ones on Natural Selection, microevolution, and solving Hardy Weinberg problems
8. Mary Poffenroth discusses Charles Darwin and natural selection
9. Ricochet Science has a Natural Selection video
10. Russian fox breeding experiment
11. "vampire" finch (sharp beaked ground finch)
12. Woodpecker Finch
13. multiple videos of the great grey shrike feeding
14. anoles jumping
15. The importance of neutral and near neutral mutations in evolution
16. What's REALLY going on when you hear "Scientists found a new species of X"
    • Amazon river dolphins: morphology and DNA
    • wildebeast: two species, or five? (all with fertile hybrids)
    • Do a few zoo animals with funny manes mean there's a new species of lion?
    • Incipent speciation: California salamanders
17. five misconceptions about evolution
18. Ryan Ellingson: five more misconceptions about evolution
19. Evolution: autotuned and remixed
20. Humor - The Human Race by The Frantics

1. Mary Poffenroth explains Trophic Levels
2. Tegu
3. Christie Wilcox on the lionfish invasion (...and ciguatoxins)
4. lots of other content on lionfish
5. Mary Poffenroth: keystone species
6. Mary Poffenroth: Biodiversity (...and threats to biodiversity)
7. Mary Poffenroth: biotic potential
8. Mary Poffenroth: biotic and abiotic factors
9. Mary Poffenroth: Biomes and Communities
10. Mary Poffenroth: Community Ecology and Interspecific interactions
11. Mary Poffenroth: Trophic Levels, Producers and Consumers
12. Mary Poffenroth: Charles Darwin and
natural selection
13. the good and bad sides of biological control

Other Topics

1. Human Population
2. DNA structure and replication
3. Transcription and Translation
4. Nova Science Now's RNAi video (The first part covers transcription and translation)
5. Human Genome Project: James Kent saves the day!!!(Why Craig Venter is a jerk.)
6. Epigenetics: Nova special(1 hour long)
7. Natural Selection
8. Speciation
9. species management: Eels and overfishing
10. Christie Wilcox on being a marine biologist
11. Cristie on the scientists using social media

Video Links

• Crash Course Biology
• SciShow
• Paul Anderson - BozemanBiology
• Stated Clearly
• Mary Poffenroth
• Alexis Dainis (Bite Sci-zed)
• Vsauce
• RicochetScience
• Amoeba Sisters

Great Science Blogs

• Christie Wilcox's Science Sushi
• Tetrapod Zoology (old version)
• Panda's Thumb
• Pharyngula
• Jerry Coyne
• Ryan Ellingson
• Brian Switek: Laelaps
• Jonathan Eisen
• Michael Eisen