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Crash Course Biology Season 1

January. 30,2012
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Crash Course Biology

And thus begins the most revolutionary biology course in history. Come and learn about covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds. What about electron orbitals, the octet rule, and what does it all have to do with a mad man named Gilbert Lewis? It's all contained within. www.youtube.com/crashcourse

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Crash Course Biology

2012

In 40 videos, Hank Green teaches you biology! This course is based on the AP Biology curriculum and also covers some introductory anatomy. By the end of this course, you will be able to: * Recognize the chemicals, molecules, and structures that make up living things * Understand the processes that keep organisms alive and drive cellular reproduction * Identify evidence of evolution and explain its role in speciation, development, and anatomy * Describe the characteristics of the different kingdoms and some phyla that make up the taxonomy of living things * Predict how the interactions between molecules, cells, organisms, and populations contribute to larger systems

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Crash Course Biology Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 40 - Ecology - Rules for Living on Earth
First Aired: October. 29,2012

Hank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been interacting with each other all the time, every day, since life on this planet began, and these interactions depend mostly on just two things... Learn what they are as Crash Course Biology takes its final voyage outside the body and into the entire world.

Episode 39 - Fungi: Death Becomes Them
First Aired: October. 22,2012

Death is what fungi are all about. By feasting on the deceased remains of almost all organisms on the planet, converting the organic matter back into soil from which new life will spring, they perform perhaps the most vital function in the global food web. Fungi, which thrive on death, make all life possible.

Episode 38 - The Plants & The Bees: Plant Reproduction
First Aired: October. 15,2012

Hank gets into the dirty details about vascular plant reproduction: they use the basic alternation of generations developed by nonvascular plants 470 million years ago, but they've tricked it out so that it works a whole lot differently compared to the way it did back in the Ordovician swamps where it got its start. Here's how the vascular plants (ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms) do it.

Episode 37 - Vascular Plants = Winning!
First Aired: October. 08,2012

Hank introduces us to one of the most diverse and important families in the tree of life - the vascular plants. These plants have found tremendous success and the their secret is also their defining trait: conductive tissues that can take food and water from one part of a plant to another part. Though it sounds simple, the ability to move nutrients and water from one part of an organism to another was a evolutionary breakthrough for vascular plants, allowing them to grow exponentially larger, store food for lean times, and develop features that allowed them to spread farther and faster. Plants dominated the earth long before animals even showed up, and even today hold the world records for the largest, most massive, and oldest organisms on the planet.

Episode 36 - The Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations
First Aired: October. 01,2012

Hank introduces us to nonvascular plants - liverworts, hornworts & mosses - which have bizarre features, kooky habits, and strange sex lives. Nonvascular plants inherited their reproductive cycle from algae, but have perfected it to the point where it is now used by all plants in one way or another, and has even left traces in our own reproductive systems.

Episode 35 - Old & Odd: Archaea, Bacteria & Protists
First Aired: September. 24,2012

Hank veers away from human anatomy to teach us about the (mostly) single-celled organisms that make up two of the three taxonomic domains of life, and one of the four kingdoms: Archaea, Bacteria, and Protists. They are by far the most abundant organisms on Earth, and are our oldest, oddest relatives.

Episode 33 - Great Glands - Your Endocrine System
First Aired: September. 10,2012

Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us - also known as our immune system.

Episode 32 - Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer
First Aired: September. 03,2012

Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us - also known as our immune system.

Episode 30 - The Skeletal System: It's ALIVE!
First Aired: August. 20,2012

Hank introduces us to the framework of our bodies, our skeleton, which apart from being the support and protection for all our fleshy parts, is involved in many other vital processes that help our bodies to function properly.

Episode 27 - Circulatory & Respiratory Systems
First Aired: July. 30,2012

Hank takes us on a trip around the body - we follow the circulatory and respiratory systems as they deliver oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from cells, and help make it possible for our bodies to function.

Episode 24 - Chordates
First Aired: July. 09,2012

Hank introduces us to ourselves by taking us on a journey through the fascinatingly diverse phyla known as chordata. And the next time someone asks you who you are, you can give them the facts: you're a mammalian amniotic tetrapodal sarcopterygian osteichthyen gnathostomal vertebrate cranial chordate.

Episode 23 - Complex Animals: Annelids & Arthropods
Episode 22 - Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, & Octopuses
First Aired: June. 25,2012

Hank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex molluscs, octopuses and squid. We differentiate them by the number of tissue layers they have, and by the complexity of those layers.

Episode 21 - Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals
First Aired: June. 18,2012

Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things.

Episode 20 - Evolution: It's a Thing
First Aired: June. 11,2012

Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization.

Episode 19 - Taxonomy: Life's Filing System
Episode 18 - Population Genetics: When Darwin Met Mendel
First Aired: May. 28,2012

Hank talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation.

Episode 17 - Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth
First Aired: May. 21,2012

Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes evolved.

Episode 15 - Speciation: Of Ligers & Men
Episode 13 - Meiosis: Where the Sex Starts
Episode 11 - DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word Ever
First Aired: April. 09,2012

Hank imagines himself breaking into the Hot Pockets factory to steal their secret recipes and instruction manuals in order to help us understand how the processes known as DNA transcription and translation allow our cells to build proteins.

Episode 10 - DNA Structure and Replication
Episode 8 - Photosynthesis
First Aired: March. 19,2012

Hank explains the extremely complex series of reactions whereby plants feed themselves on sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and also create some by products we're pretty fond of as well.

Episode 7 - ATP & Respiration
First Aired: March. 12,2012

In which Hank does some push ups for science and describes the "economy" of cellular respiration and the various processes whereby our bodies create energy in the form of ATP.

Episode 6 - Plant Cells
Episode 4 - Eukaryopolis - The City of Animal Cells
Episode 3 - Biological Molecules - You Are What You Eat
First Aired: February. 13,2012

Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins - and how we find them in our environment and in the food that we eat.

Episode 1 - That's Why Carbon Is A Tramp
First Aired: January. 30,2012

And thus begins the most revolutionary biology course in history. Come and learn about covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds. What about electron orbitals, the octet rule, and what does it all have to do with a mad man named Gilbert Lewis? It's all contained within.

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