This course discusses the basic parts of the eukaryotci cell. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What are the two types of cells?

2. What are the basic parts of a prokaryote?

3. What are the basic parts of a eukaryote?

This lecture discusses the remainder of the parts of a eukaryotic cell, the structure of the cell membrane, and types of membrane transport.At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What are the parts of a eukaryotic cell?

2. How are plant cellsdifferent?

3. What is the cell membrane and how is it used?

4. What are the types of transport?

This lecture discusses the basic properties of energy and how it is used and stored in biological systems. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What is energy and how does it exist in living systems?

2. What are the two types of reactions?

3. What are the major metabolic pathways?

This lecture discusses the actions and structure of enzymes. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What are enzymes and what do they look like?

2. How do enzymes work?

3. How are enzymes controlled?

4. How do enzymes interact with their environment?

This lecture discusses glycolysis, the first part of cellular respiration, as well as reduction-oxidation reactions. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What are redox reactions and how do they work?

2. What are the types of respiration?

3. What is glycolysis?

This lecture discusses the second and third parts of cellular respiration--pyruvate oxidation and citric acid cycle. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What is pyruvate oxidation?

2. What is the citric acid cycle?

This lecture discusses the final step of aerobic cellular respiration and how anaerobic respiration occurs. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What is the electron transport chain and how does it work?

2. What is fermentation?

This lecture discusses photosynthesis, and how plants harness light energy. It covers the light dependent reactions. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. How do plant cells use light energy?

2. What are the light dependent reactions?

3. How are reactions joined together?

This lecture discusses the second part of photosynthesis, the light independent reactions. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What is the Calvin Cycle?

2. How is carbon dioxide turned into a sugar?

Exam 2 covers the information from cell structure to photosynthesis. It has 35 questions and a time limit of 50 minutes.

This lecture discusses the basic structure and function of DNA, including important scientific discoveries. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What does DNA look like?

2. How do we know about the structure of DNA?

This lecture discusses how DNA is replicated. It goes through the processes of replication of the leading and lagging strands. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. How does DNA make copies of itself?

2. What are the steps of DNA replication?

3. What are types of DNA mutations?

This lecture discusses the method of RNA production and processing. It focuses on the production of mRNA for the purpose of protein synthesis. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What is transcription?

2. How is RNA produced?

3. How is mRNA processed?

This lecture discusses the second part of protein synthesis--the process of translation. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. How is mRNA used to make a protein?

2. What happens if there are mistakes in the protein code?

This lecture discusses the basic parts of the cell cycle and how it is regulated. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What are the stages of the cell cycle?

2. How is cell division controlled?

This lecture discusses how somatic cells divide through the process of mitosis. It discusses the stages of division and how they occur. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. How does DNA condense?

2. What are the steps of mitosis?

3. Why do cells go through mitosis?

Exam 3 covers information from DNA structure and function to Mitosis. It has 35 questions and a 50 minute time limit.

This lecture compares and contrasts meiosis and mitosis. It discusses the major stages of meiosis as well as things that make meiosis unique. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What is meiosis?

2. What are the steps of meiosis?

3. What is crossing over?

4. How is meiosis different from mitosis?

This lecture discusses basic inheritance and why we resemble our parents. It also discusses common problems that occur during meiosis. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What is inheritance?

2. What are common chromosome abnormalities that may cause problems in gametes?

3. What is a karyotype?

This lecture covers basic genetic vocabulary as well as how we understand genetic inheritance today. It also discusses the basic types of inheritance. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What are genetic terms dealing with genotype and phenotype?

2. Who was Gregor Mendel and what did we learn from his experiments?

3. What are the different types of inheritance?

Exam 4 covers material from meiosis to Mendelian genetics. It also includes a few review questions from earlier chapters. It has 35 questions and a time limit of 50 minutes.

This lecture is a conclusion of what has been reviewed during this course.