📝Microbiology

Microbiology is AMAZING.

• Computer visualizations of microbiology:

  • Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology - YouTube (this seems to be cut)

    • Astonishing molecular machines: Drew Berry at TEDxSydney (full version + visualization of malaria)

  • The Molecular Basis of Life - YouTube

• The protein folding problem: a major conundrum of science: Ken Dill at TEDxSB…

• What is a Protein? - YouTube

• Protein

  • Motor Proteins

• 12 magnets show how viruses are built

  • how viruses are built, a little theory about DNA/RNA/building proteins.

• Cell

• ATP synthase

• Gene regulation

  • Gene silencing

    • All the cells in the human body have the same DNA. But microRNA can silence a part of the genome so the cells can be different

    • Gene Silencing by microRNAs - YouTube

    • Generation and action of siRNAs and miRNAs - YouTube

  • Homeotic (Hox) genes

    • Nipam Patel (MBL) 1: Patterning the Anterior-Posterior Axis: The Role of Homeotic (Hox) Genes - YouTube

    • Nipam Patel (MBL) 2: The Role of Ubx in the Development of Crustacean Body Plan - YouTube

• microscope

  • Meet the Microcosmos - YouTube

  • Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal - YouTube

  • How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch - YouTube

  • How Do Microorganisms Reproduce? - YouTube

    • When mother divides, there are two daughters and mother ceases to exist.

    • Before they are fully separate, cells can be connected by membrane but have their own centres of control. At what point a cell becomes two?

    • Conjugation transfers genes horizontally - cells change genetically without producing a new cell.

  • Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures - YouTube

  • How Do Colonies Help Microorganisms Survive? - YouTube

  • Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From? - A Journey Into Endosymbiotic Theory - YouTube

  • Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space - YouTube

  • Stentors: Single-Celled Giants - YouTube

  • How Do Protozoa Get Around? - YouTube

  • Death in the Microcosmos - YouTube

• misc

  • How Blood Evolved (Many Times) - YouTube

  • What Was the Ancestor of Everything? (feat. PBS Space Time and It’s Okay To Be Smart) - YouTube

    • ^ about LUCA

Resources

• Alberts…₂₀₁₅