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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

Night shot of a bug-eyed creature with mangy brown and white fur grasping a branch with long claws.

A caterpillar curled in a circle, mostly encased in a protective covering. Caption: Then the caterpillar goes to sleep.

Green foliage with a pink flower overlooks the shoreline. Spanish captions.

Closeup of a bright orange and blue tropical flower. Spanish captions.

A seal swimming underwater near the ocean floor. Caption: still remain to satisfy diurnal scavengers

A warthog with long tusks curving towards its body and leathery skin covered in mud. Caption: we can see that each has a beauty all its own.

Person driving a large piece of industrial farm equipment. Caption: towards managing agricultural systems

Text reads, “Algae,” against a black and green background.

Still image from: Algarabía TV: Chemistry of Happiness (Spanish)

Standing outside are two women; one is wearing butterfly wings and a headband with pink antennas, while the other holds a camera.

Text reads, “All About Trees,” against a blurry green background.

Still image from: All the Answers: The Oregon Trail, Ice Age, Memories

Teacher uses a hair clip attached to her arm to hold a ball of yellow clay, demonstrating how a bee carries pollen.

Large tent with open sides covering people seated and standing around tables holding gear and other items. Two people carefully placing bones in the outline of a body. Caption: for what early bipeds looked like.

Still image from: American Eagles for Kids

Digital illustration of a frog sitting atop a tiny island, stretching its tongue away from it. Text above reads, “Amphibians!”

Digital Illustration of green tropical leaves reaching out over a blue background. Text reads, “Animal Adaptations.”

Text reads, “Animal Behaviors” against a background that shows three rows of animals in various shapes, sizes, and colors. At the top are dogs, in the middle are cats, and on the bottom are fish.

Text reads, "Animal Camouflage" against a backdrop of hexagons that resemble snakeskin.

Digital art shows a bee and a duck posed in a dance move, pointing to the right. Between them is the text, “Animal Classification.”

Still image from: Animal DNA: Aquatic Monsters

Still image from: Animal DNA: Bears

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

Still image from: Animal DNA: Birds

Still image from: Animal DNA: Birds of Prey

Still image from: Animal DNA: Butterflies, Moths, and Beetles

Still image from: Animal DNA: Canidae Family

Still image from: Animal DNA: Ducks, Geese, Swans, and More

Still image from: Animal DNA: Equidae Family

Still image from: Animal DNA: Fish

Still image from: Animal DNA: Going Big!

Still image from: Animal DNA: Into the Deep Blue (Part 1)

Still image from: Animal DNA: Into the Deep Blue (Part 2)

Still image from: Animal DNA: Nocturnal Animals

Still image from: Animal DNA: On the Farm

Still image from: Animal DNA: Poisonous Creatures

Still image from: Animal DNA: Primates

Still image from: Animal DNA: Reptilians

Still image from: Animal DNA: Rodents

Still image from: Animal DNA: Shell Sweet Home

Still image from: Animal DNA: Similar, but Different

Still image from: Animal DNA: Similar, but Not Related

Still image from: Animal DNA: Small Charming Birds

Still image from: Animal DNA: Strange and Unique

Still image from: Animal DNA: The Felidae Family

Still image from: Animal DNA: The Savannah

An orange fish with yellow fins swimming up from the ocean floor from between rocks toward the viewer. Caption: in the environment they inhabit.

A bird with yellow breast, brown wing, and white and black striped head with a bug in its mouth. Spanish captions.

A man and a woman sitting on the ground with tools beside them. Caption: We have part of a leg bone, the shin.

Hairy body of a large and leggy tarantula illuminated from behind.

Double helix of DNA with two protein strands highlighted. One strand shows proteins A and T. The other strand shows C and G. Caption "methylation". Caption: attach to a gene and block access to it,

Person standing in a colorful room with cacti in pots all around the walls. Spanish captions.

Illustration of a man with gray hair and his ears circled dismayed at a broken object on the floor. Spanish captions.

Two people in a colorful room with cacti in pots all around the walls. Spanish captions. One is playing an instrument.

Crab in the water. Caption: They also have a hard, external skeleton

Coral reef with fish swimming in the vivid blue water above and two snorkelers at the water's surface. Caption: it has a lot of fish, it has less algae,

Body of water with plants floating on the surface near the shore, trees right up to the water's edge in the background. Spanish Captions.

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

Man, with glasses in a suit jacket and button up shirt. Caption: the system may thrive again when it's reintroduced.

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

Dark background with a small central ball of light surrounded by four irregularly placed orbiting streaks of light. Caption: And Rutherford now also knew that the atom had structure,

Close up of a cockroach head and body. Caption: A bunch of 'em -- American cockroaches.

Hand holding a magnifying glass pointing to something on the ground. Caption: Do you see it?

Spider with long narrow legs and a small narrow body at the center of a delicate spider web. Caption: Spiders are arachnids.

On the left of the screen, under the label “Bacteria,” we see a magnified photo of several rods of bacteria. On the right, under the label “Viruses,” we see a magnified photo of several spherical virus cells.

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

Still image from: Bats

Still image from: Bees and Wasps for Kids

Two women sitting at a desk look at us with curiosity. Caption reads: “Facebook Question: Sheila, Indianapolis.”

Adult man and woman with a child between them. The man and the woman are each contributing one chromosome to the child. Caption: half from your mother and half from your father.

Man standing next to leafy plants. The soil has been cut away so that the root structure is visible. Caption: It's a cycle, and it's driven by energy from the sun.

Four mammals, one with short, curved horns, grazing on grass. Spanish captions.

One central atom with two smaller atoms each attached to an electron on the outer ring of the central atom. Caption: covalently bonded to one oxygen atom,

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

Metaphase. Diagram of two structures on opposite sides of a cell. Each structure has one blue chromosome and one red chromosome. Caption: of the chromatids, the chromosomes now line up

Double helix strand of DNA with protein pairs on each step. For example, AT and CG. For each pair, one letter is smaller than the other. Caption: one large, and one small--

A person speaking. Illustration of a lion and a flying insect. Natural Selection. Caption: says that those individuals with beneficial traits,

Still image from: Bison of the West

Still image from: Bite-Size Science: The Power of pH

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

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: A Deep Sea Ghost

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: A Feast of Bones

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

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: An Eel Reveal

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Extinction, a Pyramid Scheme, and the World's Largest Salamander

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Figs Eat Wasps Before You Eat the Fig

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Fly Through the Water Like a Deep Sea Skate

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Hank Eats Weird Stuff, Does Weird Things

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: How an Invasive Snail May Save an Endangered Bird

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: How One Crab Got Fuzzy to Live Without the Sun

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: How One Spider Became (Mostly) Vegetarian

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: How the Solenodon Became Venomous

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: How the Wombat Poops Cubes

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Is This Weird Animal Our Closest Relative?

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Living Soap Bubbles With Tentacles

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Meet the Air-Breathing Fish With Poisonous Eggs

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: New Zealand Glowworms Eat Like Spiders

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Not a Vampire...or a Squid

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Tenrecs Will Not Stay in Their Lane

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Bizarre Beast That Smells Like Popcorn

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Bizarre Beast With Claws on Its Wings

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Bizarre Beast With Clear Blood

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Bizarre Beast With Glowing Bones

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Bizarre Beast With Pointy Ribs

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Frog That Swallowed Its Young

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Ocean Bug That Can't Get Wet

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Primate That Might Hold the Key to Long Distance Space Travel

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Shark That Eats Seagrass

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Strange Thing That Turns Grasshoppers Into Locusts

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Two-Legged Reptile That Hears With Its Skin

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Weird Thing Storks Can Smell

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

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The World's Longest Non-Stop Flight

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: This Bacteria Changed Our World

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: This Clam Sinks Ships

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: This Frog Is Bad at Basically Everything

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: This Is Not a Crab

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: This Lizard Cures Lyme Disease (in Ticks)

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: This Slimy Fish Ties Itself in Knots

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: We Finally Know Where Eels Come From

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

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

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Why Elephant Seals Drop Beats

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Why This Nocturnal Parrot Only Breeds When Summer Is Hot

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

Microscopic view of a transparent tube-shaped organism. Caption: an energy reserve the cell can draw on

Closeup of tongs picking up a small piece of mold off bread contained in a glass jar. Caption: I'll take some bread mold and let it work.

Two trucks unload garbage. Caption: Male, we're standing on about 12 meters of garbage.

A white cow with brown spots on its head in a grassy field. Caption: began about 8,000 years ago in three separate locations.

Two arachnids lying on their backs; one has a small abdomen and the other a large abdomen, displaying the bug’s ability to expand its body when it eats.

Two women wearing headlamps walk out of a dark cave onto mossy rocks.

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.

Diagram showing two pairs of dogs resulting in two dogs, each with shorter legs. Caption: so dogs with shorter legs were selected and bred.:

Title text reads, “Butterflies," against a bakcground that shows the dark silhouette of a butterfly.

Still image from: Butterflies for Kids

A close up of a yellow and black butterfly on a flower. Caption: Have you seen them fly past you,

A ship sailing through the sea. Caption: sails within the sight of the mythical Galapagos.

Two-line graphs. One with sharp, jagged, closely spaced peaks and valleys, the other with more gently increasing and decreasing peaks and valleys. Caption: This information is captured by the BioRadio

Woman in a lab coat sits for an interview in a lab with many cabinets and lab equipment on the counter behind her. Text reads, “Bela Peethambaran, PhD. Biologist.”

Still image from: Carnivorous Plants for Kids

Illustration of a smiling green Calcium nutrient with a charge of two. Text reads, “Divalent Cation.”

Bright green leaf and stem of a plant. Caption: During photosynthesis, energy from the sun,

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 clusters of cells. Spanish captions.

Closeup of nerve cells. Caption: Many nerve cells must transmit electrical impulses

Very crowded market filled with people. Caption: They get this energy through respiration --

Cellular respiration, the process of breaking things down. Eating the food.

A hummingbird hovering around a plant.

A spider in the center of a web with double helix DNA strands in the background. Caption: the relationship between changes in spider genomes

Reddish brown and white kangaroo crouches down on all fours, long tail hanging down and brushing the ground.

Book with handwritten text of the following hierarchy: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Caption: are grouped into a species.

The head of a horse wearing a bridle, hooked to a tether secured to a post. The horse is leaning down to eat hay. Caption: These are all examples of different kinds of animals.

Close up of a silver fish. Caption: - Ectotherms meaning their body temperature goes up and down

Still image from: Condors For Kids

Close up of a golden eagle, wings folded. Caption: Where did this golden eagle come from?

Gloved hand reaching into a small tank to pick up a piece of white coral being grown on a disc. Caption: that fight some of the worst infectious bacteria.

Extreme closeup of the cell structure of coral showing rectangular shape in the center of textured cell material. Labeled, (algae) ZooXanthellae. Caption: Zooxanthallae live inside some of the coral's cells.

Title text reads, "Coral Reefs," against a black background.

Front view of an orange squid swimming in the ocean. Caption: She can either keep it or toss it away as she chooses.

Closeup of a taupe-colored shellfish with eye showing, and the ocean in the background. Text on image reads, "Core Biology. Animal Sciences."

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

Side closeup view of a flower with yellow petals, magenta veins, and yellow stamens. Text on image reads, "Core Biology. Plant Sciences."

Illustration of Earth. Midlatitude jet stream (cool) at the top of the globe and Subtropical jet stream (warm) close to the equator. Both move clockwise. Caption: it is a powerful band of winds known for bringing winter storms

Closeup of a huge pile of kernels of dried corn. Caption: making corn the number-one crop by weight.

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Animal Behavior

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: Biological Molecules--You Are What You Eat

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Carbon...So Simple

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: Ecology--Rules for Living on Earth

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

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Evolution--It's a Thing

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

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Fungi--Death Becomes Them

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: Mitosis Splitting Up Is Complicated

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Natural Selection

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Old and Odd Archaea, Bacteria, and Protists

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Photosynthesis

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Plant Cells

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Population Genetics When Darwin Met Mendel

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

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Speciation of Ligers and Men

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