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4) Reproduction
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Combining lively studio discussion with exploratory films and on-the-spot reports, Dara O Briain's Science Club brings some of the world's foremost thinkers together to share their ideas. In this episode, Professor Steve Jones discusses early studies of the reproductive process. Comedian Ed Byrne discovers just how closely related he is to a Neanderthal. Materials scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik creates a DNA cocktail with the help of some vodka....
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This program examines some of the issues raised by the potential uses and misuses of genetic technology. The program demonstrates the techniques of both ultrasound scanning and amniocentesis as well as explains genetic manipulation techniques and the potential applications of the knowledge gained from the human genome project. The program provides a complete introduction to the following topics: Structure and function of DNA; Social, economic, and...
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"Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications, misundertandings,...
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All forms of life, from the simple to the highly complex, possess not only the ability but the instinct to reproduce. This program gives an introduction to the basic biological concepts involved with sexual and asexual reproduction. Starting at the cellular level, the video distinguishes between reproduction that occurs sexually, in an exchange of genetic material between two organisms, and asexually, in which organisms produce offspring with a genetic...
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This, the first of four programs on reproduction and birth, looks at how the male and female bodies are prepared for their task of increasing the human race. The program shows the characteristics of sperm and ova and how each contains a partial blueprint for the future offspring. The mechanism of cell division is shown through exceptional microphotography, and the mechanisms of heredity are carefully described.
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Advances in fertility or reproductive science have already had an enormous impact on society. Test tube babies, IVF, and frozen embryos have made infertility less of an obstacle for some, but others worry where this technology can lead. This film explores the possibilities, including the creation of the dream child with the best traits of both parents. Genetic diseases and disorders can be a thing of the past, but can we be trusted to stop there?
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"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an...
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This video describes the characteristics of haploid and diploid cells. It discusses the differences between sexual and asexual reproduction, looks at gametes and spores, considers alternation of generations, and explains vegetative reproduction. It shows the stages of mitosis and meiosis.
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For most couples, getting pregnant is an easy matter, but not so for the 15 percent with infertility problems. This highly technical program designed for advanced anatomy courses and health-care practitioners focuses on the processes that lead to normal impregnation, and the physical hindrances that can prevent it. Superb microscopy and computer animation illustrate the processes, and show how reproductive medicine helps infertile couples over biological...