Core Biology - Microbiology and Genetics

Core Biology: Microbiology and Genetics offers a new and exciting approach to presenting the core principles of microbiology and genetics. This program covers the significant discoveries in microbiology and genetics, beginning with Anton van Leeuwenhoek’s use of the newly invented microscope to look at life. The program continues with Pasteur’s development of the germ theory of disease, followed by presentations of the structure of cells, mitosis and meiosis. Next it shows how the discovery of genes formed the basis of modern genetics and helps explain evolution. It ends with how eukaryote cells – the building blocks of all complex life – are a product of co-operation.

DVD segments in this program are:
1673 – Anton Leeuwenhoek Describes Microscopic Life
1838 – The Cellular Basis of Life
1866 – Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
1878 – Germ Theory of Disease
1884 – The Structure of Cells
1884 – Mitosis and Cell Division
1905 – Meiosis
1911 – Genes
1967 – The Symbiotic Cell