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Lab equipment in background with illustration of DNA strand, question marks, and an arrow pointing to the horn on a unicorn. Caption: We'd want to know what parts of the genome make the horn.

Lab equipment in background with illustration of connected neurons. Caption: glia activate and help fix the neurons

Still image from: 10 Reasons You Should Never Try Vaping

Black background with text that reads, "Alcohol and the Developing Brain."

Person sitting in front of a bookcase with books on various scientific subject. Caption: Microbes come in a huge variety of shapes--

illustration depicts a close knitted structure of the nerves. Caption: are now hardwired in because we use them so often.

Illustration of a cell with activity inside. Caption: It changes the function of the cell

Digital illustration of the lateral view of the brain. Text on image reads, "Working Memory." "Cognitive System with Limited Capacity." "Transient Holding Processing and Manipulation of Information."

Person in shorts and a t-shirt running by a green field. Caption: We all benefit from being stronger,

Bill Nye holding an infant. Caption: You, she, and I have the same number of brain cells

Illustration of a cell split in two that appears to be ready to eat something. Caption: T-Cells produce proteins that turn ordinary macrophages into killers

A roughly tear-drop shaped object with a thin outer layer, a wider middle layer, and a central space. Caption: A gastrula is an embryo made of three cell layers.

The skull of an animal with long, sharp teeth. Caption: And those teeth are incredibly strong.

Illustration of a vein blocked by a fatty substance. Caption: then what happens in a stroke or heart attack.

$Two people wearing gloves and examining human bones. Caption: no bones were fractured.$

Still image from: Bones

Close up of a human ribcage. Caption: The ribs form a cage that protects the heart, lungs,

Still image from: Bugs!

A man in a white lab coat looking into a microscope. Caption: Examination back in the lab can confirm the species of fern.

A diagram shows six cell parts. Nucleus, Nuclear Membrane, Cytoplasm, Mitochondria, Vacuoles, and cell membrane.

Still image from: Cells

Microscopic view of pond water teaming with life. Text on image reads, "Core Biology. Microbiology and Genetics."

Still image from: Crash Biology: Mitosis Splitting Up Is Complicated

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Animal Development We're Just Tubes

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: ATP and Respiration

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Chordates

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Circulatory and Respiratory Systems

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Comparative Anatomy--What Makes Us Animals

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Complex Animals--Annelids and Arthropods

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: DNA Hot Pockets and the Longest Word Ever

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: DNA Structure and Replication

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Eukaryopolis--The City of Animal Cell

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Evolutionary Development Chicken Teeth

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Great Glands--Your Endocrine System

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Heredity

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Meiosis Where the Sex Starts

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Membranes and Transport

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Natural Selection

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Simple Animals--Sponges, Jellies, and Octopuses

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Taxonomy Life's Filing System

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: The Digestive System

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: The Muscular System

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: The Nervous System

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: The Reproductive System--How Gonads Go

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: The Skeletal System--It's ALIVE!

Person in gloves and a lab coat handles two mice. One is noticeably heavy. Caption: because a single gene is defective,

A honey bee sucks nectar from a flower.

Closeup of the rattle at the end of a black and white striped rattlesnake. The rattle is composed of hollow, interlocking segments that are shiny and slightly transparent.

Video shows a light gray background.

Blurred photo of a woman leaning over to kiss the cheek of a baby. The baby reaches up to grab her chin in its hands.

Still image from: Digestive System

Still image from: DNA

Still image from: Eons: How Humans Lost Their Fur

Computer rendering of a dinosaur skeleton depicting a creature with short front arms and a long tail that walks on its hind legs.

Person Speaking from a podium. Caption: and why it doesn't act so well in the obese.

Closeup of the human eye. Caption: He may start examining the cornea.

A group of people inspecting a skeleton.

A woman leaning down to brush her lips on the head of a sleeping baby held in her arms. Caption: were passed on from generation to generation,

Points of light against a dark, textured background. Caption: many adaptations to support movement.

Infrared scan of the head and shoulders of a person mostly in red and yellow. Caption: it's already increased 5 degrees to 36 degrees Celsius.

Illustration of a gray brain with areas highlighted in green. Title card reads, "How Does Your Brain Learn? Changes in active brain regions could be an indicator of 'training related performance gains.'"

Aerial closeup of a hand with a pencil drawing a variety of styles of eyes on white paper.

Still image from: How to Draw Hands

Blurry city in background. Taste and Smell.

Blurry city in background. Touch.

Two women exercising with dumbbells. Caption: to make their bodies as strong as can be.

An animal with the body of a lion, an extra goat head on its back, and a snake instead of a tail. Caption: Chimera.

An illustration depicts the sinuses present in a human skull.

A comparison of passive echolocation used in vehicles and active echolocation in dolphins.

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: How Your Memory Works

An enlarged view of the cells lining the retina is shown from an eyeball. A colorful and a black and white picture of parrot are shown on either side of the eyeball.

Sixteen eyeballs, each with different eye color. Caption: Martin-Schultz scale.

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Proof of Evolution Is Hiding in Your DNA

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: The Lizard That Uses Nanotechnology to Walk Upside Down

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: The Science of Farts

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: The Shocking Way Your Brain Runs on Electricity

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: What Is Impossible in Evolution?

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Why Are We Warm Blooded?

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Why Do We Cry?

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Why Do We Itch?

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Why Is Sex a Thing?

Title card in blue box on white background reads, "How many syllables are in support?"

Cartoon of a child in a classroom setting standing at the front of the class next to a skeleton. Caption: Your body's made of many parts that help you move and think.

Still image from: Living and Nonliving Things for Kids

Illustration of human torso with area over the upper chest in x-ray vision, showing the rib cage and heart. Caption: the heart.

Group of children with arms raised. Spanish captions.

Illustration of the human digestive system. Caption: Then the remains of the food, which is now pretty much waste,

Illustration of a human skull with the eyeballs still present. Caption: The human eye is an organ -- an exquisite sensory organ --

Illustration of tubular structures. Nova science Now. Caption: The answer -- mirror neurons,

Alex Dainis is seated in front of her book shelf. Animation of a cell structure. Caption: And this volume includes all of its organelles.

Still image from: Muscles

Still image from: Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain--Brain Basics

Still image from: Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain--Mapping the Brain

Still image from: Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain--The Brain, Computers, and Technology

Still image from: Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain--The Developing Brain

Still image from: Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain--The Thinking and Social Brain

Illustration of the inner ear showing the stirrup bone and other structures. Caption: lie the fluid-filled cavities of the inner ear.

Still image from: Nutrition: How Your Body Turns Food Into Energy

Drawing of a human torso and head with a cross section of the chest removed to show the human heart and lungs. Caption: It has been seen as the site of our emotions,

A diagram depicts the musculature of lower back. Caption: Gluteus Maximus,

Illustration of a human arm flexing and the bicep muscle enlarged. Caption: to control the extent of the contraction,

Man and woman walking with arms around each other's waist. Caption: humans are truly a privileged species,

Four jets trailing colored exhaust engaging in trick maneuvers. Caption: (narrator) A g-force is the force gravity has on your body.

Kaleidoscopic pattern primarily in blues and greens. Caption: I worked more and more on generating these images.

Gloved hand holding the trachea and lungs from a human body. Caption: branches into two smaller tubes called bronchi,

Computer screen showing a cross section of the human brain. Caption: and it's a fundamentally new way to see the brain.

Brightly colored bird with a beak almost as large as its body. Caption: You'd think it would be too beak-heavy to fly.

Bat with wings extended spots on the rib of one wing highlighted. Caption: We're interested in bat flight mechanics and how they fly.

Person working on a robotic leg that is wearing a shoe. Caption: This is a battery that powers everything.

Woman in front of a computer screen in a dimly lit space. Caption: about impacts of night shift work on a woman's body clock.

Person with a fabric cap strapped to their head. The cap has metal rivets and wires attached. Captions: (female) it feels maybe like a mild itchy or tingling sensation.

Person sitting at a table across from a robot. On the table in front of them are objects of different shapes and colors. Caption: Would you put the green object with one peg into the red box?

A gray eel. National Aquarium. Caption: an electric eel can generate enough current to stun its prey.

Closeup view of very thin wires forming concentric squares and other geometric patterns. Caption: these circuits are thinner than a hair

Person placing an object under a microscope. Caption: for nerves to regrow themselves

Person holding a large animal skull. Caption: The teeth on this thing are huge.

Alligator in grass. Caption: for a population and genetics survey of alligators.

Cross section of the human brain. Caption: creating a virtual 3-D image of the brain.

Person walking on a treadmill with sensors attached to their legs. Caption: (narrator) What if you could alleviate pain by changing your stride?

Diagram of an orange sphere. Part of the shell of the sphere is removed to show the white interior. On the surface of the sphere are small, brightly colored spots. Caption: help protect against the toxins they make.

Two people standing at a counter checking in with a receptionist. Caption: So they joined a live donor kidney exchange program.

A snake with eyes covered. Caption: this snake strikes its prey with pinpoint precision.

A device strapped on a man's hand. Caption: That device strapped to his arm is a sweat biosensor.

Person with head laying on pillow while wearing a cap with wires attached. Caption: and how you can boost how much you remember while you snooze.

Red, black, and white snakes in a tube. People in white lab coats and gloves are in the background. Caption: They can go many places things with arms and legs can't.

Model of a human head being brushed by whiskers attached to wires protruding from a metal post. Caption: by a set of artificial wire whiskers,

Graphic of light and dark blue spheres of various sizes. Caption: The food molecules fuel cellular respiration.

Computerized image of a skull. Caption: The axial skeleton consists of the skull,

Negative feedback loop. Control center (brain), effector, response, feedback, stimuli, receptor, back to control center. Caption: The control center determines the appropriate response.

Closeup of a mottled brown spider. Caption: arachnids and crustaceans, have a skeleton on the outside

Two crabs facing off. Spanish captions.

Two people walking down a hallway. Caption: we chat with DNA scientist Bruce Jackson,

Illustration of a bear in snow. Caption: for the long winter's nap,

Closeup of the human eye. Caption: which regulates the amount of light entering the eye.

Closeup of a person's midsection. Person wears white and wraps their arms around themself. Title card reads, "Shedding light on heat, Episode 6. Heat and the human body."

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Alligator Skull

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Box Turtle Shell

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Cow Skull

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Mammoth Tooth

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Rattlesnake Rattle

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Red-Tailed Hawk Feather

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Shark Tooth

Closeup of a slice of pumpkin pie with a dollop of whipped cream. A fork rests on the side of the pie plate.

A hummingbird drinking nectar out of a flower.

Diagram of sound entering the ear and being processed by the structures in the ear. Spanish captions.

Children wearing dark sunglasses against a backdrop of the beach. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Alleles and Genes."

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Asexual and Sexual Reproduction."

Cartoon of pink and purple amoebas smiling and gesturing with their hands. Title card reads, "Biological Levels."

Cartoon of pink and purple amoebas smiling and gesturing with their hands. Title card reads, "Biomolecules."

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Blood Types and Punnett Squares." And in parentheses, "Multiple Alleles."

Cartoon of a purple amoeba holding a paintbrush and gesturing toward a chalkboard that reads, "Cell Transport." Pink amoeba smiles and gestures toward the chalkboard from the opposite side.

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Cellular Respiration."

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Chromosome Numbers During Cell Division."

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Chromosomes and Karyotypes."

Cartoon of a pink amoeba leaning to the side with its mouth open wide. Title card reads, "Codons."

Cartoon of a pink amoeba smiling and gesturing toward a title card that reads, "Dichotomous Keys with Scientific Names." Purple amoeba with surprised expression glances toward the title card from the opposite side.

Digital illustration of a double helix runs across the top and the bottom of the screen. Title card reads, "D, N, A Replication."

The molecular structure of D N A and R N A are depicted. Or The D N A double helix structure has two phosphate deoxyribose chains with the nucleotide bases are single bonded to it. The R N A single helix structure has a single phosphate deoxyribose chain with nucleotide bases attached to it.

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "D, N, A, Chromosomes, Genes and Traits."

Purple cartoon amoeba holds a paintbrush and gestures toward a cartoon chalkboard that reads, "Enzymes." Pink cartoon amoeba smiles and gestures toward chalkboard on opposite side.

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Gene Regulation."

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Genetic Drift."

Digital illustration of the heads of 2 men labeled, "Godfrey Hardy" and "Wilhelm Weinberg." Title card at center reads, "Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium. A population's allele and genotype frequencies are constant, unless there is some type of evolutionary force acting upon them."

Cartoon of a purple amoeba holding a paintbrush and gesturing toward a chalkboard that reads, "How Cells Specialize." And in parentheses below, "Featuring Stem Cells." Pink amoeba smiles and gestures toward chalkboard on opposite side.

Two cartoon characters. Human Body Systems.

Cartoon of a group of amoebas. 2 hold shields and point spears. 1 shouts toward another. A green amoeba aims a bow and arrow. Another holds a bottle opposite a shouting amoeba wearing goggles. Title card reads, "Immune System."

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Incomplete Dominance, Codominance, Polygenic Traits, and Epistasis."

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks upwards at helix from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Inside the Cell Membrane."

Cartoon of a blue amoeba poking an irritated orange amoeba with an arrow that reads, "Intercellular to intracellular" that points to a frowning orange amoeba. Another blue amoeba stands next to an arrow that reads, "Intracellular to intercellular" and points to a blue amoeba poking an orange amoeba. Title card reads, "Signaling."

The Amoeba sisters present the heading, introduction to cells.

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Mitosis Versus Meiosis."

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and gesturing opposite one another. Title card at center reads, "Mitosis."

A thought bubble for an amoeba sister reads, superpowers. Caption: Mutation.

Cartoon of a purple amoeba holding a paintbrush and gesturing toward a chalkboard that reads, "Pedigrees." Pink amoeba smiles and gestures toward the chalkboard from the opposite side.

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Plant Structure and Adaptation."

Cartoon of a frowning pink amoeba holding a folded piece of torn green paper. Large piece of folded green paper hovers to the side.

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Protein Synthesis."

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Sex-linked Traits."

Digital illustration of a sodium potassium pump with a brown cell wall and purple pump at the center. Title card reads, "Sodium Potassium Pump."

Split image of aerial view of city blocks next and a smiling person. Caption: It's the legacy of an evolutionary balancing act

A skeletal bone is being placed on a table.

Person holding a skeleton approximately the length of her thumb. Caption: …each of the limbs, and the scapula.

Closeup of an animal with a pointed snout, large claws, and overlapping scales covering its body. Caption: They are covered in keratin scales,

Person holding a taxidermized flying squirrel with legs extended. Caption: As you know, flying squirrels don't fly, they glide.

Illustration of a skeleton. Arrows indicate the front right toe and back left heel. Caption: Their elongated heel bone and Achilles tendon.

Drawer containing thin, preserved cross sections of the human body. Caption: looking into the body, like you would an x-ray.

Platypus with a duck-like snout, webbed feet, and a furry body. Caption: They're the craziest things I've seen in my life.

Still image from: The Edge of Wonder: The Human Microbiome

Outline of a person with the hypothalamus in their brain highlighted. 98.6 degrees. Caption: The hypothalamus monitors the temperature inside the body

Still image from: The Five Senses for Kids

Still image from: The Human Heart for Kids

Color illustration of the human cardiovascular system, showing the heart, arteries, and veins in the chest area.

People sitting at a table. Caption: (narrator) We may only eat three times a day,

Closeup of the top view of the human brain. Caption: Many of the body's mysteries lie in the brain,

Microscopic view of a spherical cell in other structures. Caption: This means a lot of new growth as cells divide and redivide

A skeletal ribcage with lungs inside. Caption: and the air rushes in.