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NOVA | World in the Balance | PBS - 0 views
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With moving personal stories from India, Japan, Kenya, and China, "World in the Balance" gives an up-to-date global snapshot of today's human family, now numbering 6.3 billion and likely to increase to nearly 9 billion by 2050. Paradoxically, the world is now careening in two completely different directions
DragonflyTV . Dog Breeding | PBS KIDS GO! - 0 views
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Interactive genetics game of increasing complexit.
Tiktaalik roseae: Resources & Further Reading - 0 views
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PBS created a three-part television series based off of Neil Shubin's best-selling book, Your Inner Fish. Along with the series, they have created an excellent website with teaching resources, video clips, and interactive features to guide you through the record of evolution in our bodies.
RNA | NOVA Labs | PBS - 0 views
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Nature's best kept secret is a wonder molecule called RNA. It is central to the origin of life, evolution, and the cellular machinery that keeps us alive. In this Lab you'll play the role of a molecular engineer by solving RNA folding puzzles. Then take your skills to Eterna, where you can design RNAs that could be at the heart of future life-saving therapies.
PBS - harvest of fear - 0 views
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In "Harvest of Fear," FRONTLINE and NOVA explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modified (gm) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech and food industry representatives, government regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both sides of the debate, exploring the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology.
A Science Odyssey: You Try It: DNA Workshop - 1 views
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Interactive requiring shockwave: Replicate DNA, transcribe and translate a sequence of virtual DNA. Reading and information includied. Good webquest component.
Home | NOVA Labs | PBS - 0 views
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Science labs
Evolution: Online Lessons for Students: Activity 2- Evidence for Evolution WebQuest - 0 views
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Webquest activity for evidence of evolution
Therapeutic Uses of Stem Cells | Science, Engineering & Technology | Interactive | PBS LearningMedia - 0 views
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In this interactive activity adapted from the HHMI Outreach Program at Harvard University, learn about the ways in which stem cells can be used to treat and help cure diseases in humans. The activity explains what stem cells are and how they're produced, and provides details on their existing or potential therapeutic role in diseases related to the pancreas, liver, lungs, and bone marrow.
NOVA | Angiogenesis Explained - 0 views
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Blood vessel growth-or angiogenesis-is critical for developing fetuses and to heal wounds. But it is also an essential element of how cancerous tumors grow and spread. Here, see a step-by-step explanation of how the process works and how anti-angiogenesis therapies might stop tumors before they become deadly.
Epigenetics | Science | Classroom Resources | PBS Learning Media - 0 views
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5 minute video by Neil Tyson illustrating impact of epigenetics among twins
Human Genome Project | Science | Classroom Resources | PBS Learning Media - 0 views
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In this video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life," Eric Lander of MIT's Whitehead Institute explains the effort to decode the human genome -- from motivation to process to importance -- and explains what a genome map can do for science and what it can't -- yet.
NOVA | Four DNA Tests - 0 views
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Genetic tests are now available to look for specific heritable diseases like Huntington's, assess your risk of developing conditions like heart disease, and more. Learn about four different types of genetic testing and take our poll. Would you take these tests yourself?
Chromosome Viewer | Science | Classroom Resources | PBS Learning Media - 0 views
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At about 3 billion letters long, reading and finding anything meaningful in the human genome is a daunting task. But that's just what genome researchers do. This interactive feature provides a microscopic view of some of what they've found on our 24 chromosomes, including the locations of about 200 different genes, especially those that have been associated with disease.
Super Salmon | Science | Classroom Resources | PBS Learning Media - 0 views
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video segment
NOVA | Epigenetics - 0 views
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13 minute video on twins and epigenetics
NOVA Online/Odyssey of Life/Morphing Embryos - 0 views
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Odyssey of life animations: human, pig, chicken, and fish embryos
NOVA | How Cancer Grows and Spreads - 1 views
Isn't Evolution Just a Theory? | Science | Classroom Resources | PBS Learning Media - 0 views
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6 min video
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