Science Education - Basic Biology
Biology I: yeast, Drosophila and C. elegans
10:48An Introduction to Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (commonly known as baker’s yeast) is a single-celled eukaryote that is frequently used in scientific research. S. ...
09:16An Introduction to Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster, also known as the fruit fly, is a powerful model organism widely used in biological research that has made significant ...
09:13An Introduction to Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans is a microscopic, soil-dwelling roundworm that has been powerfully used as a model organism since the early 1970’s. It was ...
08:30Yeast Maintenance
Research performed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has significantly improved our understanding of important cellular phenomona such as regulation ...
08:46Drosophila Maintenance
Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as fruit flies, are a frequently used model organism for life science research. Although starting a collection of ...
10:54C. elegans Maintenance
Ceanorhabditis elegans has been, and is still, used to great success as a model organism for studying a variety of developmental, genetic, molecular and ...
07:48Yeast Reproduction
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast that is an extremely valuable model organism. Importantly, S. cerevisiae is a unicellular eukaryote that ...
12:51Drosophila Development and Reproduction
One of the many reasons that make Drosophila an extremely valuable organism is that the molecular, cellular, and genetic foundations of development are ...
09:14C. elegans Development and Reproduction
Ceanorhabditis elegans is a powerful tool to help understand how organisms develop from a single cell into a vast interconnected array of functioning ...
06:49Isolating Nucleic Acids from Yeast
One of the many advantages to using yeast as a model system is that large quantities of biomacromolecules, including nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), can be ...
08:29Drosophila Larval IHC
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a technique used to visualize the presence and location of proteins within tissues. Drosophila larvae are particularly ...
09:51RNAi in C. elegans
RNA interference (RNAi) is a widely used technique in which double stranded RNA is exogenously introduced into an organism, causing knockdown of a target ...
08:30Yeast Transformation and Cloning
S. cerevisiae are unicellular eukaryotes that are a commonly-used model organism in biological research. In the course of their work, yeast researchers ...
08:14Drosophila melanogaster Embryo and Larva Harvesting and Preparation
Drosophila melanogaster embryos and larvae are easy to manipulate and develop rapidly by mechanisms that are analogous to other organisms, including ...
08:57C. elegans Chemotaxis Assay
Chemotaxis is a process in which cells or organisms move in response to a chemical stimulus. In nature, chemotaxis is important for organisms to sense and ...
