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Biochemistry

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TITLES	LECTURE VIDEO CLIPS	HELP SESSION VIDEOS	PRACTICE PROBLEM SETS	USEFUL LINKS
Types of Organisms, Cell Composition	Types of Organisms, Cell Composition, Excerpt 1 (00:16:50) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Types of Organisms, Cell Composition, Excerpt 1 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 37MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 37MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Types of Organisms, Cell Composition, Excerpt 2 (00:02:27) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Types of Organisms, Cell Composition, Excerpt 2 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 5.4MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 5.4MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Plant, Animal, and Bacteria Cell Models Cell Cams
Covalent Bonds, Hydrogen Bonds	Covalent Bonds, Hydrogen Bonds (00:22:23) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Covalent Bonds, Hydrogen Bonds > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 48.6MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 48.6MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Covalent Bonds (00:05:51) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Covalent Bonds > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 12.7MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 12.7MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	20-Second Story about Hydrogen Bonding How Geckos Stick Hydrophobic Interactions Green Basilisk Lizard Ice Water and Hot Water movies
Macromolecules: Lipids, Carbohydrates, Nucleic Acid	Macromolecules: Lipids, Carbohydrates, Nucleic Acid, Excerpt 1 (00:35:25) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Macromolecules: Lipids, Carbohydrates, Nucleic Acid, Excerpt 1 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 76.9MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 76.9MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Macromolecules: Lipids, Carbohydrates, Nucleic Acid, Excerpt 2 (00:25:29) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Macromolecules: Lipids, Carbohydrates, Nucleic Acid, Excerpt 2 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 55MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 55MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Lipids, Carbohydrates, and Nucleic Acids Practice Problem (00:08:32) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Lipids, Carbohydrates, and Nucleic Acids Practice Problem > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 18.5MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 18.5MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Phospholipids Lipids Chirality Carbohydrates Building Blocks of DNA Chargaff's Ratio
Proteins, Levels of Structure, Non-Covalent Forces	Proteins, Levels of Structure, Non-Covalent Forces, Excerpt 1 (00:18:55) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Proteins, Levels of Structure, Non-Covalent Forces, Excerpt 1 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 40.8MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 40.8MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Proteins, Levels of Structure, Non-Covalent Forces, Excerpt 2 (00:30:15) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Proteins, Levels of Structure, Non-Covalent Forces, Excerpt 2 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 65.8MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 65.8MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	StarBiochem 3-D Protein Viewer Protein folding Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary Structure of Proteins Gecko Locomotion videos
Biochemical Reactions, Enzymes, and ATP	Biochemical Reactions, Enzymes, and ATP (00:43:34) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Biochemical Reactions, Enzymes, and ATP > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 94MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 94MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Introduction to Thermodynamics and Protein Folding Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions ATP and Coupled Reactions
Respiration and Fermentation	Glycolysis, Respiration, and Fermentation (00:42:06) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Glycolysis, Respiration, and Fermentation > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 91.3MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 91.3MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Glycolysis Cellular Respiration How Glycolysis Works "Cell Respiration" – Cellular Respiration Song The ATP Cycle
Chemiosmotic Principle, Photosynthesis	Photosynthesis (00:17:02) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Photosynthesis > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 37MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 37MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Photosynthesis Shedding Light on Photosynthesis What is Photosynthesis?

Exam 1

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Exam 1	Exam (PDF) Solutions (PDF)

Molecular Biology

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TITLES	LECTURE VIDEO CLIPS	HELP SESSION VIDEOS	PRACTICE PROBLEM SETS	USEFUL LINKS
DNA Structure, Classic Experiments	DNA Structure and Classic experiments, Excerpt 1 (00:46:58) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. DNA Structure and Classic experiments, Excerpt 1 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 102.5MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 102.5MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) DNA Structure and Classic experiments, Excerpt 2 (00:06:59) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. DNA Structure and Classic experiments, Excerpt 2 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 15.3MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 15.3MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Hershey and Chase Experiment Meselson and Stahl Experiment "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids" (The original Watson and Crick paper)
DNA Replication	DNA Replication (00:33:42) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. DNA Replication > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 73.6MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 73.6MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Explanation of 5' and 3', C terminus, and N terminus (00:02:08) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Explanation of 5' and 3', C terminus, and N terminus > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 4.7MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 4.7MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Replication: Mechanism of Replication (Basic), 3-D Animation Library Replication: Mechanism of Replication (Advanced), 3-D Animation Library
Transcription, Translation	Transcription and translation, Excerpt 1 (00:07:59) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Transcription and translation, Excerpt 1 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 17.5MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 17.5MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Transcription and translation, Excerpt 2 (00:15:27) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Transcription and translation, Excerpt 2 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 33.8MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 33.8MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Transcription and Translation (00:09:42) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Transcription and Translation > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 21.1MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 21.1MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968 Transcription Animation (Basic) Transcription Animation (Advanced) Translation Animation (Basic) Translation Animation (Advanced) Triplet Code Animation
Alternative Approaches to Molecular Biology	Alternative Approaches to Molecular Biology (00:35:01) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Alternative Approaches to Molecular Biology > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 76.5MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 76.5MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Telomere Replication Elizabeth Blackburn Part 1: The Roles of Telomeres and Telomerase RNA Splicing—Removing Introns after RNA Transcription RNA Splicing—An Introduction HIV / AIDS Replication Animation Video
Gene Regulation and the Lac Operon	Gene Regulation (00:30:07) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Gene Regulation > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 215.6MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 215.6MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	The lac operon (00:05:23) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. The lac operon > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 11.7MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 11.7MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	lac operon

Exam 2

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Exam 2	Exam (PDF) Solutions (PDF)

Genetics

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TITLES	LECTURE VIDEO CLIPS	HELP SESSION VIDEOS	PRACTICE PROBLEM SETS	USEFUL LINKS
Mendel's Laws	Mendel's Laws, Excerpt 1 (00:23:19) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Mendel's Laws, Excerpt 1 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 51MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 51MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Mendel's Laws, Excerpt 2 (00:17:42) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Mendel's Laws, Excerpt 2 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 38.8MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 38.8MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	StarGenetics - Mendelian Genetics Virtual Lab
Linkage and Recombination, Genetic Maps	Linkage and Recombination, Genetic maps (00:38:54) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Linkage and Recombination, Genetic maps > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 85.1) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 85.1MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Virtual Genetics Lab Animal Cell Meiosis How Cells Divide Dihybrid Crosses and Linked Genes
Pedigrees	Human Genetics (00:42:23) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Human Genetics > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 207.9MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 207.9MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Pedigrees (00:11:51) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Pedigrees > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 25.7MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 25.7MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Pedigree Analysis, Example 1 Pedigree Analysis, Example 2 Pedigree Analysis, Example 3
Biochemical Genetics	Genetics 3 (00:51:19) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Genetics 3 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 214.2MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 214.2MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Human Genetics (00:49:57) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Human Genetics > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 11.6MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 11.6MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Complementation (00:03:20) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Complementation > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 7.3MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 7.3MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Complementation (Part II) (00:04:33) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Complementation (Part II) > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 9.9MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 9.9MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Complementation Test Epistasis: Gene Interaction and Phenotype Effects

Exam 3

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Exam 3	Exam (PDF) Solutions (PDF)

Recombinant DNA

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TITLES	LECTURE VIDEO CLIPS	HELP SESSION VIDEOS	PRACTICE PROBLEM SETS	USEFUL LINKS
Development of Recombinant DNA	Overview of Recombinant DNA, Excerpt 1 (00:08:57) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Overview of Recombinant DNA, Excerpt 1 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 19.6MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 19.6MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Overview of Recombinant DNA, Excerpt 2 (00:22:17) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Overview of Recombinant DNA, Excerpt 2 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 48.4MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 48.4MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	None	History of Genentech
Basic Mechanics of Cloning	Basic Mechanisms of Cloning, Excerpt 1 (00:13:19) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Basic Mechanisms of Cloning, Excerpt 1 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 29.2MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 29.2MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Basic Mechanisms of Cloning, Excerpt 2 (00:13:01) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Basic Mechanisms of Cloning, Excerpt 2 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 28.5MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 28.5MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Basic Mechanisms of Cloning, Excerpt 3 (00:14:09) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Basic Mechanisms of Cloning, Excerpt 3 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 31MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 31MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	None	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Cloning in a Plasmid Vector Key Steps of Molecular Cloning
Constructing and Screening a Recombinant DNA Library	Constructing and Screening a Recombinant DNA Library (00:19:11) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Constructing and Screening a Recombinant DNA Library > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 41.9MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 41.9MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Genomic and cDNA Libraries (00:04:08) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Genomic and cDNA Libraries > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 9MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 9MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome Construction of a DNA Library Library Generation
cDNA Libraries and Expression Libraries	cDNA Libraries and Expression Libraries (00:13:30) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. cDNA Libraries and Expression Libraries > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 29.6MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 29.6MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Transformation and Protein Expression (00:07:29) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Transformation and Protein Expression > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 16.3MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 16.3MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	Isolation and use of cDNA clones Techniques of Molecular Biology
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, DNA Sequencing, PCR	Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, DNA Sequencing, PCR, Excerpt 1 (00:17:46) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, DNA Sequencing, PCR, Excerpt 1 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 38.8MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 38.8MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT) Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, DNA Sequencing, PCR, Excerpt 2 (00:42:26) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, DNA Sequencing, PCR, Excerpt 2 > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 92.7MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 92.7MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) (00:08:33) Flash and JavaScript are required for this feature. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) > Download from iTunes U (MP4 - 18.6MB) > Download from Internet Archive (MP4 - 18.6MB) > Download English-US transcript (PDF) > Download English-US caption (SRT)	Problems (PDF) Solutions (PDF)	DNA Sequencing Jonathan Weissman: DNA Sequencing Biology Animation Library PCR Virtual Lab

Exam 4

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Exam 4	Exam (PDF) Solutions (PDF)

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