All Episodes of Crash Course Biology

Season 1

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  That's Why Carbon Is A Tramp

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/30/2012

  And thus begins the most revolutionary biology course in history. Come and learn about covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds. What about electron orbitals, the octet rule, and what does it all have to do with a mad man named Gilbert Lewis? It's all contained within.

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  Water - Liquid Awesome

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/6/2012

  Hank teaches us why water is one of the most fascinating and important substances in the universe.

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  Biological Molecules - You Are What You Eat

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/13/2012

  Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins - and how we find them in our environment and in the food that we eat.

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  Eukaryopolis - The City of Animal Cells

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/20/2012

  Hank tells us about the city of Eukaryopolis - the animal cell that is responsible for all the cool things that happen in our bodies.

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  In Da Club - Membranes & Transport

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/27/2012

  Hank describes how cells regulate their contents and communicate with one another via mechanisms within the cell membrane.

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  Plant Cells

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/5/2012

  Hank describes why plants are so freaking amazing - discussing their evolution, and how their cells are both similar to & different from animal cells.

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  ATP & Respiration

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/2012

  In which Hank does some push ups for science and describes the "economy" of cellular respiration and the various processes whereby our bodies create energy in the form of ATP.

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  Photosynthesis

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/19/2012

  Hank explains the extremely complex series of reactions whereby plants feed themselves on sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and also create some by products we're pretty fond of as well.

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  Heredity

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/26/2012

  Hank and his brother John discuss heredity via the gross example of relative ear wax moistness.

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  DNA Structure and Replication

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/2/2012

  Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells.

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  DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word Ever

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/9/2012

  Hank imagines himself breaking into the Hot Pockets factory to steal their secret recipes and instruction manuals in order to help us understand how the processes known as DNA transcription and translation allow our cells to build proteins.

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  Mitosis: Splitting Up is Complicated

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/16/2012

  Hank describes mitosis and cytokinesis - the series of processes our cells go through to divide into two identical copies.

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  Meiosis: Where the Sex Starts

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/23/2012

  Hank gets down to the nitty gritty about meiosis, the special type of cell division that is necessary for sexual reproduction in eukaryotic organisms.

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  Natural Selection

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/30/2012

  Hank guides us through the process of natural selection, the key mechanism of evolution.

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  Speciation: Of Ligers & Men

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/7/2012

  Hank explains speciation - the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise - in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs.

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  Animal Development: We're Just Tubes

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/14/2012

  Hank discusses the process by which organisms grow and develop, maintaining that, in the end, we're all just tubes.

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  Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/21/2012

  Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes evolved.

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  Population Genetics: When Darwin Met Mendel

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/28/2012

  Hank talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation.

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  Taxonomy: Life's Filing System

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/4/2012

  Hank tells us the background story and explains the importance of the science of classifying living things, also known as taxonomy.

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  Evolution: It's a Thing

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/11/2012

  Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization.

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  Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 6/18/2012

  Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things.

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  Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, & Octopuses

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/25/2012

  Hank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex molluscs, octopuses and squid. We differentiate them by the number of tissue layers they have, and by the complexity of those layers.

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  Complex Animals: Annelids & Arthropods

  Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 7/2/2012

  Hank continues our exploration of animal phyla with the more complexly organized annelida and arthropoda, and a biolography on insects.

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  Chordates

  Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 7/9/2012

  Hank introduces us to ourselves by taking us on a journey through the fascinatingly diverse phyla known as chordata. And the next time someone asks you who you are, you can give them the facts: you're a mammalian amniotic tetrapodal sarcopterygian osteichthyen gnathostomal vertebrate cranial chordate.

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  Animal Behavior

  Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 7/16/2012

  Hank and his cat Cameo help teach us about animal behavior and how we can discover why animals do the things they do.

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  The Nervous System

  Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 7/23/2012

  Hank and his cat Cameo help teach us about animal behavior and how we can discover why animals do the things they do.

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  Circulatory & Respiratory Systems

  Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 7/30/2012

  Hank takes us on a trip around the body - we follow the circulatory and respiratory systems as they deliver oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from cells, and help make it possible for our bodies to function.

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  The Digestive System

  Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 8/13/2012

  Hank takes us on the fascinating journey through our excretory system to learn how our kidneys make pee.

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  The Excretory System: From Your Heart to the Toilet

  Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 8/13/2012

  Hank takes us on the fascinating journey through our excretory system to learn how our kidneys make pee.

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  The Skeletal System: It's ALIVE!

  Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 8/20/2012

  Hank introduces us to the framework of our bodies, our skeleton, which apart from being the support and protection for all our fleshy parts, is involved in many other vital processes that help our bodies to function properly.

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  Big Guns: The Muscular System

  Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 8/27/2012

  Hank tells us the story of the complicated chemical dance that allows our skeletal muscles to contract and relax.

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  Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer

  Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 9/3/2012

  Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us - also known as our immune system.

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  Great Glands - Your Endocrine System

  Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 9/10/2012

  Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us - also known as our immune system.

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  The Reproductive System: How Gonads Go

  Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 9/17/2012

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  Old & Odd: Archaea, Bacteria & Protists

  Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 9/24/2012

  Hank veers away from human anatomy to teach us about the (mostly) single-celled organisms that make up two of the three taxonomic domains of life, and one of the four kingdoms: Archaea, Bacteria, and Protists. They are by far the most abundant organisms on Earth, and are our oldest, oddest relatives.

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  The Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations

  Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 10/1/2012

  Hank introduces us to nonvascular plants - liverworts, hornworts & mosses - which have bizarre features, kooky habits, and strange sex lives. Nonvascular plants inherited their reproductive cycle from algae, but have perfected it to the point where it is now used by all plants in one way or another, and has even left traces in our own reproductive systems.

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  Vascular Plants = Winning!

  Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 10/8/2012

  Hank introduces us to one of the most diverse and important families in the tree of life - the vascular plants. These plants have found tremendous success and the their secret is also their defining trait: conductive tissues that can take food and water from one part of a plant to another part. Though it sounds simple, the ability to move nutrients and water from one part of an organism to another was a evolutionary breakthrough for vascular plants, allowing them to grow exponentially larger, store food for lean times, and develop features that allowed them to spread farther and faster. Plants dominated the earth long before animals even showed up, and even today hold the world records for the largest, most massive, and oldest organisms on the planet.

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  The Plants & The Bees: Plant Reproduction

  Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 10/15/2012

  Hank gets into the dirty details about vascular plant reproduction: they use the basic alternation of generations developed by nonvascular plants 470 million years ago, but they've tricked it out so that it works a whole lot differently compared to the way it did back in the Ordovician swamps where it got its start. Here's how the vascular plants (ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms) do it.

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  Fungi: Death Becomes Them

  Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 10/22/2012

  Death is what fungi are all about. By feasting on the deceased remains of almost all organisms on the planet, converting the organic matter back into soil from which new life will spring, they perform perhaps the most vital function in the global food web. Fungi, which thrive on death, make all life possible.

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  Ecology - Rules for Living on Earth

  Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 10/29/2012

  Hank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been interacting with each other all the time, every day, since life on this planet began, and these interactions depend mostly on just two things... Learn what they are as Crash Course Biology takes its final voyage outside the body and into the entire world.

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