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#1 - 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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#2 - 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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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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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#8 - 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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#9 - 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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#10 - 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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#11 - 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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#12 - 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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#13 - 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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#14 - 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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#15 - 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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#16 - 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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#17 - 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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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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#20 - 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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#21 - 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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#22 - 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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#23 - 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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#24 - 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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#25 - 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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The Worst Episodes of Crash Course Biology
Every episode of Crash Course Biology ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Crash Course Biology!
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Water - Liquid Awesome" is the worst rated episode of "Crash Course Biology". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/6/2012. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Biological Molecules - You Are What You Eat".