• Biology for everyone
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 A
    • 2.1 Alignments
    • 2.2 Talking Glossary: Allele (0.5 min)
  • 3 B
    • 3.1 Talking glossary: Bioinformatics
  • 4 C
    • 4.1 Talking Glossary: Candidate gene
    • 4.2 CATH database
      • 4.2.1 References
    • 4.3 Clade
      • 4.3.1 Clades and phylogenetic trees
      • 4.3.2 Terminology
      • 4.3.3 In popular culture
      • 4.3.4 References
    • 4.4 Talking Glossary: Cloning (0.5 min)
    • 4.5 Talking Glossary: Codominance (0.5 min)
    • 4.6 Comparative genomics
    • 4.7 Talking Glossary: Contig (0.75 min)
    • 4.8 Talking Glossary - Foundations 1 Review: Crossing over
  • 5 D
    • 5.1 Talking Glossary: Deletion mutation (1.5 min)
    • 5.2 Talking Glossary: DNA sequencing (0.75 min)
    • 5.3 Sex-Chromosome Dosage compensation
      • 5.3.1 Random inactivation of one X in XX individuals
      • 5.3.2 Results
      • 5.3.3 Clinical applications
      • 5.3.4 Agricultural applications
      • 5.3.5 Limitations
    • 5.4 Fine-mapping
  • 6 H
    • 6.1 Talking Glossary: Haploid (1.25 min)
    • 6.2 Talking Glossary: Halplotype
    • 6.3 Talking Glossary: Heterozygous
    • 6.4 Homology:L When things are homolgous AND analogous!
    • 6.5 Talking Glossary: Homozygous
  • 7 I
    • 7.1 Talking Glossary: Insertion mutation (1.25 min)
    • 7.2 Intrinscially disordered protein
      • 7.2.1 Abundance
      • 7.2.2 Disorder annotation
      • 7.2.3 Disorder databases
      • 7.2.4 Predicting IDPs by sequence
      • 7.2.5 Prediction methods
      • 7.2.6 Disorder and disease
  • 8 J
    • 8.1 JoVe Videos
      • 8.1.1 Biotechnology
      • 8.1.2 Macromolecules
      • 8.1.3 Cellular respiration
      • 8.1.4 Population and community ecology
      • 8.1.5 Population genetics
  • 9 K
    • 9.1 Talking glossary: Knockout (Genetic knockout, gene knockout)
  • 10 L
    • 10.1 Talking Glossary: Locus (1 min)
  • 11 M
    • 11.1 Manhattan Plot
      • 11.1.1 GWAS
    • 11.2 Talking Glossary: Microarray
    • 11.3 Talking Glossary: Missense Mutation (1.25 min)
    • 11.4 Talking Glossary: Mitochondrial DNA (1.5 min)
    • 11.5 Talking Glossary: Mutagen (0.5 min)
    • 11.6 Talking Glossary: Mutation (0.5 min)
  • 12 N
    • 12.1 Talking Glossary: Non-coding DNA (1 min)
    • 12.2 Talking Glossary: Nonsene mutation
    • 12.3 Nucleic Acids - Overview
      • 12.3.1 DNA and RNA
      • 12.3.2 DNA Double-Helix Structure
      • 12.3.3 RNA
      • 12.3.4 Protein function
      • 12.3.5 Summary
      • 12.3.6 Glossary
      • 12.3.7 Contributors and Attributions
  • 13 O
    • 13.1 Talking Glossary : Open reading frame definition (3 min)
  • 14 P
    • 14.1 Talking Glossary: PCR - The Polymerase Chain Reaction (0.5 min)
    • 14.2 Protein Data Bank
      • 14.2.1 History
      • 14.2.2 File format
    • 14.3 PFam
      • 14.3.1 Uses
    • 14.4 Talking Glossary: Phenotype
    • 14.5 Phylogenetics vocab
    • 14.6 Talking Glossary: Plasmid (1 min)
    • 14.7 Talking Glossary: Point mutation (0.5 min)
    • 14.8 Talking Glossary: Polymorphism (1 min)
    • 14.9 Talking Glossary U03: Primer (0.5 min)
    • 14.10 Talking Glossary: Promoter (1.5 min)
  • 15 Q
  • 16 R
    • 16.1 Talking Glossary: Recessive
    • 16.2 Talking Glossary: Recombinant DNA (0.5 min)
    • 16.3 Talking Glossary: Repressor (1 min)
    • 16.4 Talking Glossary: Restriction Enzyme (0.5 min)
  • 17 S
    • 17.1 Structural Classification of Proteins database (SCOP)
      • 17.1.1 Hierarchical organisation
      • 17.1.2 Superfamilies
      • 17.1.3 Families
      • 17.1.4 PDB entry domains
    • 17.2 Sequence alignment
      • 17.2.1 Interpretation
      • 17.2.2 Alignment methods
      • 17.2.3 Representations
      • 17.2.4 Global and local alignments
      • 17.2.5 Pairwise alignment
      • 17.2.6 Dot-matrix methods
      • 17.2.7 Dynamic programming
      • 17.2.8 Word methods
      • 17.2.9 Multiple sequence alignment
      • 17.2.10 Phylogenetic analysis
      • 17.2.11 Assessment of significance
      • 17.2.12 Other biological uses
      • 17.2.13 References
    • 17.3 Talking Glossary U03: Shotgun sequencing (1 min)
    • 17.4 Talking Glossary: Sickle Cell Disease (4 min)
    • 17.5 Medline: SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphism)
    • 17.6 Talking glossary: Somatic cells (0.75 min)
    • 17.7 Sequence annotation
      • 17.7.1 Process
    • 17.8 Talking Glossary: Substitution mutation (1.75 min)
  • 18 T
    • 18.1 Taxa, Taxon, and clades: A Brief Primer
      • 18.1.1 What is a “taxon”
      • 18.1.2 What is a clade?
      • 18.1.3 Further Reading:
    • 18.2 Talking Glossary: Trait (0.75 min)
  • 19 U
    • 19.1 Uniprot
      • 19.1.1 The UniProt consortium
      • 19.1.2 The roots of UniProt databases
  • 20 V
    • 20.1 Talking Glossary: Vector (2 min)
  • 21 W
    • 21.1 Talking Glossary: X-chromosome (1.25 min)
    • 21.2 Talking Glossary: X-inactivation (“Lyonization”; 1.45 min))
  • 22 X
  • 23 V
    • 23.1 Additional Glossaries
  • 24 Z
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8 J

8.1 JoVe Videos

The JoVE Biotechnology education library provides high-level video summaries of key topics. A selection of videos are linked below. Additional videos are available at the JoVe site.

8.1.1 Biotechnology

  • Genomics
  • PCR
  • Complementary DNA (cDNA)
  • Recombinant DNA)
  • Genetic engineering

8.1.2 Macromolecules

Macromolecules

  • What are proteins
  • Protein organization
  • Protein folding
  • What are nucleic acids
  • Phosphodiester linkages

8.1.3 Cellular respiration

Cellcular respiration main page: https://www.jove.com/science-education-library/51/cellular-respiration

8.1.4 Population and community ecology

https://www.jove.com/science-education-library/74/population-and-community-ecology

  • What are Populations and Communities?
  • Life Histories
  • Energy Budgets
  • Population Growth
  • Ecological Niches
  • Ecological Succession
  • Keystone Species
  • Symbiosis
  • Competition
  • Predator-Prey Interactions
  • Ecological Disturbance

8.1.5 Population genetics

https://www.jove.com/science-education-library/80/population-genetics

  • What is population genetics
  • Hardy-Weinberg Principle
  • Mutation, Gene Flow, and Genetic Drift
  • Genetic Drift
  • Gene flow