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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

Still image from: Algae

Still image from: All About Insects

Still image from: All About Trees

Still image from: Amazing Honeybee Body Parts!

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: Amphibians!

Still image from: Animal Adaptations

Still image from: Animal Behaviors

Still image from: Animal Camouflage

Still image from: Animal Classification

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.

Still image from: Arachnids: Tarantulas

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.

Still image from: Bacteria and Viruses

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

Still image from: Bess Beetles Do What?

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,

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

Still image from: 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.

Still image from: Bug Superpowers!

Still image from: Bugs of the Caves!

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.

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

Still image from: Butterflies

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

Still image from: Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight--Biologist

Still image from: Cation Exchange

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.

Still image from: 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

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.

Still image from: Coral Reefs

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 Biology: Mitosis Splitting Up Is Complicated

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: 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: 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: 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

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

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

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Water--Liquid Awesome

Cyberchase cartoon. Matt and Inez wear miner's helmets illuminating what appears to be a cave. In the middle of them, a long green snake stands straight up and looks towards Inez. Both are looking away from the snake.

An adult cat surrounded by kittens on a linoleum floor. Caption: Other living things go through a similar process

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

Microscopic image of a pale white flea with a long body and tail.

Closeup on the face of a Tsetse fly with red eyes, pale body and an elongated appendage extending out from a black bulb at the bottom of its head.

Closeup of the white iridescent shell of a California floater mussel.

Closeup of a sundew plant made up of long yellowish leaves and red tentacles, each with a sticky gland at the tip.

Black and white closeup of a daddy longlegs spider crawling on the dirt, small black ovular body hovering just above the ground.

Closeup side view of an ensatina salamander with a long black body with orange spots, short legs, and a long tail.

Computer rendering of a starfish's tube feet, bending at an angle from the base of its leg, as if it's leaning forward on the ground.

Closeup on a glasswing butterfly perched on a fingertip. It has a black body with white stripes, and transparent webbed wings with opaque, dark brown borders tinted with orange.

Cyberchase cartoon. A sheet of paper with several illustrations that are labeled Browns. Illustrations include dirt, straw, paper, and leaves.

Microscopic photo of a louse crawling along a single strand of hair.

Computer rendering showing tiny air sacs called alveoli attached to red and blue capillaries.

Closeup of a small white spider crawling across its spiral web suspended in the air.

Computer rendering of a kangaroo rat skeleton showing its arched spine and large skull.

Closeup of red ants crawling across the dirt, each carrying a small white object.

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.

Closeup of a sand pit with a slight depression. A small shiny oval object is visible in the center.

Wide shot of a partly cloudy sky with a falcon flying through the air in the distance.

Video shows a light gray background.

Closeup of a wasp with a black body, short antennas and transparent wings.

Man wearing headphones points a laser at a sharpshooter insect attached to a grapevine.

Two hairy Tarantulas crawling on the ground.

Closeup of a spiderweb stretching across a gap in what appears to be a wood log.

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.

Closeup of an insect that has a long thin brown body that looks like a twig with short arms branching off. Its head looks like a long bright transparent leaf.

Closeup of a baby hairworm insect with a mottled light and dark brown body and thin legs crawling over a plant.

Microscopic image of a cylindrical mosquito egg that's dark brown in color with hundreds of white dots that look like polka dots.

A photo depicts flies on the surface of a fruit.

Black beetle with thin, spidery legs and black and white antennas crawls down a thin sheet of dirty fabric.

Small black ovular beetle crawls along moss towards pile of leaves.

Closeup of an Indian walking stick camouflaged in twigs and leaves. It's brown with a long, thin body and legs.

Closeup of a light brown insect with a round flat body and short setae, or hair-like structures on its legs and mid-body.

Closeup of a light and dark brown mottled peregrine falcon egg shell.

Side view closeup of a hissing cockroach showing its shiny black body covered in hair-like bristles, pale abdomen, and horns.

Glass beaker with clear liquid. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Digestive System

Pie chart diagram showing that the atmosphere contains 1/5 oxygen. Caption: Two ways of O2 entry. Caption: Oxygen makes about 1/5 of the atmosphere,

Two parallel strands twisting around a central axis. Caption: Each strand is made up of a chain of nucleotides.

Cart ascending roller coaster track. Caption: What are the reservoirs for the carbon cycle?

Cartoon of a bear and bird in a forest. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a bear standing next to a tree with a beehive. A bee hovers in the air and holds flowers. Spanish captions.

White bird with long legs and a long neck standing in the water with plants in background. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Emily Graslie's Art Lab: The Art of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Emily Graslie's Art Lab: Up Close with Backyard Pollinators

Still image from: Environment: Wildebeest Migration Patterns

Still image from: Eons: How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

A bone is placed before a wolf, who staring vigilantly at fire.

Still image from: Eons: How Humans Lost Their Fur

Still image from: Eons: How Plants Became Carnivores

A large number of eggs laid in water has a thick layer of jelly.

A cat.

Still image from: Eons: How We Figured Out Fermentation

An illustration depicts a theropod dinosaur, looking into a nest with eggs and newborn dinosaurs.

A panda eating bamboo shoots.

An illustration depicts an old shepherd, wearing clothes made from animal leather, sitting on a rock.

An illustration depicts a pair of dinosaurs fighting each other.

An illustration depicts the dinosaur, Coelophysis, with new born Coelophysis in between its beak.

An illustration depicts an extinct animal, the Giant Lemur.

A skull from the fossils of Homo floresiensis, and a rough sketch of the limbs of the fossil remains are presented.

Still image from: Eons: When We Met Other Human Species

Still image from: Eons: Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

An illustration of a male Woolly mammoth.

Still image from: Everything Is Chemical

Young person in a dentist's chair. Caption: Tooth decay, skin acne, and body odor

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

Hand holding a leaf. Almost entirely camouflaged on the leaf is an insect. Caption: with lots of moss on tree trunks and leaves

Still image from: Extinction for Kids

A seated man with skulls and other items on shelves in the background. Caption: We found one band at about 5.2 million years--

Still image from: Fish

Indicator dots in East Asia. Plane icon in North America with indicator dots beneath the plane. Caption: It heads to North America, where it deplanes,

Still image from: Food Chain

White birds with long legs stand next to a body of water surrounded by trees. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Fossil Fuels

Illustration of a sphere with an uneven surface. Caption: Scientists strip away the virus's harmful genes

A D N A strand labeled, mutación, has its section highlighted and labeled, proteina Spanish Caption: El principio de la terapia genica.

Microscopic view of narrow, oval shaped single cell organisms. Caption: and protozoa, reproduce, they make exact copies