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The Rule Behind All Life | The Central Dogma
How does the information stored in DNA become a protein? This video walks through the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. It starts with Rosalind Franklin and Photo 51 to understand the structure of DNA and, from there, explores how genetic information is preserved and used: from DNA replication to its transcription into RNA and the translation of that RNA into proteins. It also looks at what happens when information flows from RNA back to DNA through reverse transcription, and why the idea DNA → RNA → protein, while still fundamental to molecular biology, turned out to be more complex than it seemed. Throughout the video, Dr. Erika Beatriz Angeles-Morales helps explain some of these processes from her experience in molecular biology.
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The 10 Reactions That Turn Glucose Into Energy | Glycolysis
Your body has been doing this since before you were born, and it may never have been explained to you clearly. Glycolysis is one of the oldest and most universal metabolic pathways in life. From bacteria to the cells in your body, every living organism relies on it. This video follows its history from the work of Embden and Meyerhof, explains its ten reactions step by step, examines its precise enzymatic regulation, and shows why it matters far beyond ATP production.
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The Organism That Turned Sugar Into Civilization | Saccharomyces cerevisiae
The organism that makes your bread, beer, and wine also changed biology forever. Saccharomyces cerevisiae has accompanied humanity for thousands of years, although for most of that time we did not know it existed. This video explores its history from ancient Egypt to Pasteur's experiments, its eukaryotic cell structure, glucose transport and metabolism, alcoholic fermentation, its aerobic electron transport chain, and its role as the first eukaryote to have its genome fully sequenced.