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Overview: In 50 episodes, we’re going to explore biology—the science of life. Dr. Samuel Ramsey will guide you through life’s vast interconnectedness, telling lesser-known stories of biologists along the way. We’ll discover how evolution, genetics, ecology, and cell and organismal biology deepen our knowledge of every living thing: including ourselves. |
Introduction to Biology (S2E1)6/6/2023
The Scientific Method (S2E2)6/13/2023
What Biologists Do (S2E3)6/27/2023
How Life is Organized (S2E4)7/11/2023
Why Did All These Elephants Die? (Intro to Ecology) (S2E5)7/18/2023
How Species Make and Break Friendships (Community Ecology) (S2E6)8/1/2023
How Did We Save The Bald Eagle? (Population Ecology) (S2E7)8/8/2023
What Is Climate Change? (S2E8)8/15/2023
The Effects of Climate Change (S2E9)8/22/2023
How Do We Keep Life's Jenga Tower From Toppling? (Conservation Biology) (S2E10)8/29/2023
What a weirdly long giraffe nerve can teach us about evolution (S2E11)9/5/2023
Microevolution: What's An Allele Got To Do With It? (S2E12)9/12/2023
Natural Selection: Life's Way of Stayin' Alive (S2E13)9/19/2023
Why do we have different skin colors? (Population Genetics) (S2E14)10/4/2023
Where Do Species Come From? (Speciation) (S2E15)10/10/2023
How did life begin? (Evolutionary History) (S2E16)10/17/2023
How We're All Related (Phylogeny) (S2E17)10/24/2023
Humans Develop Butt First (and other insights from the Tree of Life) (S2E18)10/31/2023
Humans Didn't Evolve From Chimps (Human Evolution) (S2E19)11/7/2023
What is Life Made of? (Carbon & Biological Molecules) (S2E20)11/14/2023
A Love Letter to H2O: Water & pH (S2E21)11/28/2023
How We See What We Can't See (Microscopes) (S2E22)12/5/2023
A Tour of the Cell (S2E23)12/12/2023
How Does Stuff Get Into Your Cells? (Cell Membranes) (S2E24)12/19/2023
How Do Cells Communicate? (Cell Communication) (S2E25)1/9/2024
How Do We Get Energy? (Chemical Reactions) (S2E26)1/16/2024
How do cells get their energy? (Electron Transport Chain) (S2E27)1/23/2024
Photosynthesis: The Original Solar Power (S2E28)1/30/2024
Mitosis and the Cell Cycle (S2E29)2/6/2024
Why Are All Humans Unique? Meiosis (S2E30)2/14/2024
Why Your Cat Looks Like That: Genetics (S2E31)2/20/2024
Nature? Nurture? Not so simple: Genetic Traits (S2E32)2/27/2024
Our Instruction Manual for Existing: DNA Structure & Replication (S2E33)3/5/2024
How mRNA helped save lives: DNA Transcription (S2E34)3/12/2024
How RNA gets translated into protein power (S2E35)3/19/2024
How Genes Express Themselves (S2E36)3/28/2024
Is drinking milk a Superpower? Genetic Mutations (S2E37)4/2/2024
We’re full of bacteria! (S2E38)4/9/2024
How Do Vaccines Work?: Viruses & Vaccines (S2E39)4/16/2024
Algorithms Aren’t Just for TikTok: Bioinformatics (S2E40)4/23/2024
Why We Aren’t Just One Big Cell: Multicellular Function (S2E41)4/30/2024
Plants Are Hardcore: Plant Anatomy & Physiology (S2E42)5/7/2024
The Poop Episode: How Animals Turn Resources Into Waste (S2E43)5/13/2024
Why You’re More Than Goo: Animal Infrastructure (S2E44)5/21/2024
How Skin, Snot, and Cells Keep Us Healthy: Animal Defense Systems (S2E45)6/4/2024
What REALLY Happens When You Step on a Lego: Nervous & Endocrine Systems (S2E46)6/11/2024
How Animals Do It: Sexual & Asexual Reproduction (S2E47)6/18/2024
Gender, Sex, & Sexuality: What’s the Difference? (S2E48)6/25/2024 |