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Comprehensive Study Guidance for Evolution, Speciation, Prokaryotes, Protists, Fungi, and Viruses

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Natural Selection and Evolution

  • Natural Selection Causes Adaptation
    07:48
  • Adaptation Improves Fitness
    02:57
  • Evolution can Occur Via Natural Selection
    04:32

Introduction to Evolution and Natural Selection

  • Guided course
    Introduction to Evolution and Natual Selection Example 1
    03:22
  • Guided course
    Introduction to Evolution and Natual Selection Example 2
    04:28
  • Guided course
    Typological vs. Population Thinking
    03:56

Evolution of Populations

  • Guided course
    Evolution of Populations Example 1
    03:33
  • Guided course
    Introduction to Evolution of Populations
    05:14

Genetic Variation

  • Guided course
    Sources of Genetic Variation
    02:16
  • Guided course
    Sexual Reproduction and Recombination
    05:08
  • Guided course
    Mutations
    06:42

Genetics and Allele Frequencies

  • Guided course
    Allele Frequencies
    06:36
  • Guided course
    Mendelian and Population Genetics
    04:26
  • Guided course
    Genetics and Allele Frequencies Example 1
    02:56

The Hardy-Weinberg Principle

  • Guided course
    Predicting Allele or Genotype Frequencies Using Hardy-Weinberg
    03:31
  • Guided course
    Testing if a Population is in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
    08:26
  • Guided course
    B. Calculating Allele Frequency from a Genotype Frequency
    03:20

Assumptions of the Hardy-Weinberg Principle

  • Guided course
    Five Assumptions of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
    06:16
  • Guided course
    Assumptions of the Hardy-Weinberg Principle Example 1
    04:13

Genetic Drift

  • Guided course
    Genetic Drift Example 1
    02:00
  • Guided course
    Genetic Drift Example 2
    02:37
  • Guided course
    Genetic Drift
    05:06

Gene Flow

  • Guided course
    Gene Flow Example 1
    04:34
  • Guided course
    Gene Flow
    01:43

Introduction to Speciation

  • Guided course
    Introduction to Speciation
    03:03

The Biological Species Concept

  • Guided course
    The Biological Species Concept Example 3
    02:15
  • Guided course
    Prezygotic Barriers
    05:18
  • Guided course
    The Biological Species Concept Example 1
    01:27

Allopatric and Sympatric Speciation

  • Guided course
    Allopatric and Sympatric Speciation
    02:46
  • Guided course
    Allopatric and Sympatric Speciation Example 1
    04:25
  • Guided course
    Allopatric Speciation
    03:53

Hybrid Zones

  • Guided course
    Hybrid Zones Example 1
    02:37
  • Guided course
    Hybrid Zones
    04:38

Speciation Time Scales

  • Guided course
    Gradual Evolution vs. Punctuated Equilibrium
    03:23

Origin of Life

  • Guided course
    Origin of Life Example 1
    03:23
  • Guided course
    Events that Lead to the Formation of Cells
    06:38

The Fossil Record

  • Guided course
    Biases in the Fossil Record
    03:17
  • Guided course
    Fossils
    03:54
  • Guided course
    The Fossil Record Example 1
    02:59

History of Life on Earth

  • Guided course
    History of Life on Earth Example 1
    04:53
  • Guided course
    Geologic Record
    07:18

Extinctions

  • Guided course
    Cretaceous Extinction
    04:55
  • Guided course
    Extinctions
    04:48
  • Guided course
    Sixth Extinction
    02:29

Adaptive Radiation

  • Guided course
    Developmental Genes & Regulation
    06:12
  • Guided course
    Cambrian Explosion
    05:10
  • Guided course
    Adaptive Radiation Example 1
    06:17

Evolution of Complexity

  • Guided course
    Origin of Complex Traits
    06:15

Introduction to Phylogeny

  • Guided course
    Binomial Nomenclature
    02:32
  • Guided course
    Systematics
    06:57
  • Guided course
    Introduction to Phylogeny Example 1
    01:31

Phylogeny

  • Guided course
    Phylogeny Example 3
    04:12
  • Guided course
    Parts of a Phylogenetic Tree
    05:16
  • Guided course
    Phylogeny Example 1
    06:11

Building Phylogenetic Trees

  • Guided course
    Shared Derived Characters
    05:42
  • Guided course
    Parsimony
    06:46
  • Guided course
    Building Phylogenetic Trees Example 1
    04:35

Cladistics

  • Guided course
    Cladistics Example 1
    03:52
  • Guided course
    Monophyletic, Paraphyletic, & Polyphyletic Group
    06:37

Phylogenetics and Genome Evolution

  • Guided course
    The Molecular Clock
    05:13
  • Guided course
    Homologs: Orthologs & Paralogs
    05:29

Introduction to Prokaryotes

  • Introduction to Archaea
    04:39
  • Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells
    05:54
  • Features of Bacterial Cells
    03:54

Prokaryotic Cell Structure

  • Functions of Pili
    01:46
  • Pili
    01:02
  • Endospores
    05:35

Prokaryotic Motility

  • Prokaryotic Flagellar Structure
    02:40
  • Chemotaxis
    03:21
  • Introduction to Prokaryotic Flagella
    02:00

Prokaryotic Reproduction

  • Transduction
    06:49
  • Bacterial Transformation
    03:06
  • Plasmids
    04:44

Prokaryotic Metabolism

  • Electron Source: Lithotrophs vs. Organotrophs
    03:21
  • Carbon Source: Heterotrophs vs. Autotrophs
    02:59
  • Introduction to Biofilms
    03:31

Prokaryotic Diversity

  • Prokaryote Lineages 1
    03:51
  • Reviewing the Environmental Factors of Microbial Growth
    07:21
  • Prokaryote Lineages 2
    05:13

Prokaryotes in the Environment

  • Prokaryote Ecology
    05:34
  • The Human Microbiome
    03:25
  • Introduction to Pathogenic Toxins
    03:40

Introduction to Protists

  • What is a Protist?
    03:23
  • Introduction to Protists Example 1
    02:30
  • Introduction to Protists Example 2
    01:39

Evolution of Protists

  • Secondary Endosymbiosis Led to Several Eukaryotic Lineages
    02:37
  • Evolution of Protists Example 1
    01:43
  • Primary Endosymbiosis Gave Rise to Eukaryotes
    01:37

Protist Life Cycles

  • Plasmodium Life Cycle (Malaria)
    04:56
  • Paramecium Life Cycle: Conjugation & Asexual Reproduction
    06:28
  • Protist Life Cycles Example 2
    01:22

Eukaryotic Supergroups: Exploring Protist Diversity

  • Overview of the Four Supergroups of Eukaryotes
    03:01

Fungi

  • Fungi - 1
    08:59
  • Fungi - 2
    09:57

Fungi Reproduction

  • Fungi Reproduction - 2
    04:54
  • Fungi Reproduction - 1
    09:27
  • Fungi Reproduction - 3
    03:12

Viruses

  • Virus Structure
    04:50
  • Lytic and Lysogenic Cycles
    08:04
  • Viroids and Prions
    04:22