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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

Video title appears in white against an orange background. Text reads, “10 Reasons You Should Never Try Vaping.”

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

Still image from: All the Answers: Grasshoppers, the Nile, Earthquakes

Still image from: Animal DNA: Aquatic Monsters

Still image from: Animal DNA: Bears

Still image from: Animal DNA: Bees, Wasps, and Ants

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Still image from: Animal DNA: Small Charming Birds

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Still image from: Animal DNA: The Felidae Family

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.

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: A Living Tube With Little Tube Feet

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Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The World Used to Be Full of Giant Tortoises

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Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: We Want You to Smell Like an Animal

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: What if Your Butt Swam Away

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

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

Title text reads, “Bones,” against a black background with several gray bones.

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

Title text reads, “Bugs!” against a black background.

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.

Digital rendering of magnified cells floating in the dark. Text reads, “Cells.”

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

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

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Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Chordates

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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

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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

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Still image from: Crash Course Kids Life Science: Gotta Eat!

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.

Text reads, "Digestive System," against a background that shows a twisting strand of DNA, as well as several chemical formulas.

Text reads, "DNA," against a background that shows a twisting strand of DNA, as well as several chemical formulas.

Woman stands in front of a black background as she talks to us. An image next to her shows a person crouching next to a small fire as they reach a big stick into the flames.

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,

Still image from: Healthy Habits: Get Rest to Be Your Best

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.

Pencil sketch of the palm of a hand with the thumb out to one side and the artist shading a curve above the wrist. Title card reads, "Shoo Rayner Drawing School."

Blurry city in background. Taste and Smell.

Blurry city in background. Touch.

Still image from: Human Elements: Do Dogs Hold the Secrets To Aging?

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.

Diagram shows brain nerve cells branching like plant roots.

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.

Diagram. Eight small strands with one or two red lines on them that represent DNA. The red lines are labeled two, six, seven, nine, ten, fourteen, fifteen, and X.” Next to the smaller strands is a bigger strand that is labeled “Twelve, NANOG, broken NANOG, pseudogenes.”

Red and orange digital atom with four electrons and a positive charge nucleus is next to a purple and yellow atom with four electrons and a positive charge nucleus. Text reads, “Atoms don't actually look like this.”

Graphic shows a gray fish with a fart cloud next to it. Inside the fart cloud is text that reads, “It’s Okay To be Fart.”

Man sits at a desk that has a computer, wires, and electrical and lab equipment on it. He holds a blue wire to a battery. Behind him is a bookcase filled with books and knick-knacks like a framed butterfly and different dinosaur skeleton miniatures.

Man talks to us in a room with a bookcase filled with books and knick-knacks like a Gundam toy, small globe, and a model of a space rocket.

Neon green cartoon eel swimming in water with small fish swimming around it.

Eight different screens with the same man’s face. He makes different exaggerated expressions like smirking, pouting, surprised, grimacing, and more.

Man talks to us with his eyebrows furrowed a bit as he stands in front of a black background.

Man speaks to camera while sitting in a room with a bookcase that is filled with books and knick-knacks such as a Gundam toy, a mini globe, and a spaceship.

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Adventures in Being Eaten

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Aeolosoma--Polka-Dotted Vacuum Worms

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Amoebas--Occasional Brain-Eaters

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Bursaria--Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Can Microbes See Without Eyes?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Colorless Euglenoids--Structure and Function (and Food)

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Copepods--The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Creepy Crawly Close-Ups

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Death in the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Desmids--The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Diatoms--Tiny Factories You Can See From Space

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Didinium--The Paramecium Hunter

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Dileptus--The Toxic Micro Elephant With an Insatiable Appetite

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Do Microscopic Immortals Actually Exist?

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Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Euglenoids--Single-Celled Shapeshifters

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Flatworms--Simple Wiggly Tubes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Foraminifera--Hard on the Outside, Squishy on the Inside

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Gastrotrichs--Four Day Old Grandmothers

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Heliozoa--Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells

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Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Do Microorganisms Poop?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Do Microorganisms Reproduce?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Do Protozoa Get Around?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How We Got the DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Hydra--Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Journey Through the Body of a Rotifer

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Lacrymaria--Vicious Long-Necked Predators

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Life Without Oxygen? Challenge Accepted

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Looking at Tardigrade Sperm and Other Reproducing Swimmers

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Looking for Answers in the Skull of a Zebrafish

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Microbes in Slow Motion

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Nematodes--The Worm That Sculpted the World

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Ophyroglena: The Tricky Transforming Ciliate

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Paramecium--The White Rat of Ciliates

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Peritrich Ciliates--Masters of Long-Range Snacking

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Relax and Enjoy the View

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Revealing the Hidden Colors of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Rotifers--Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Slime Tubes in Search of Sunlight

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Suctorians--The Ugly Duckling of Ciliates

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Tardigrades--Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Tardigrades--The Ambassadors of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Testate Amoebas--Blobby, Modest Shell Dwellers

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Algae That Saved an Astronaut's Life

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Chaotic Life of Seashore Ciliates

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Colors of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Fish Sucking Lice That Aren’t Lice

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Fungus That Traps and Kills Nematodes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Gruesome Tale of the Hitchhiking Parasite