In 40 videos, Hank Green teaches you biology! This course is based on the AP Biology curriculum and also covers some introductory anatomy. By the end of this course, you will be able to: * Recognize the chemicals, molecules, and structures that make up living things * Understand the processes that keep organisms alive and drive cellular reproduction * Identify evidence of evolution and explain its role in speciation, development, and anatomy * Describe the characteristics of the different kingdoms and some phyla that make up the taxonomy of living things * Predict how the interactions between molecules, cells, organisms, and populations contribute to larger systems

Season 1 Episode 1 - That's Why Carbon Is A Tramp

And thus begins the most revolutionary biology course in history. Come and learn about covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds. What about electron orbitals, the octet rule, and what does it all have to do with a mad man named Gilbert Lewis? It's all contained within. Air Date : 30th-Jan-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 2 - Water - Liquid Awesome

Hank teaches us why water is one of the most fascinating and important substances in the universe. Air Date : 6th-Feb-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 3 - Biological Molecules - You Are What You Eat

Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins - and how we find them in our environment and in the food that we eat. Air Date : 13th-Feb-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 4 - Eukaryopolis - The City of Animal Cells

Hank tells us about the city of Eukaryopolis - the animal cell that is responsible for all the cool things that happen in our bodies. Air Date : 20th-Feb-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 5 - In Da Club - Membranes & Transport

Hank describes how cells regulate their contents and communicate with one another via mechanisms within the cell membrane. Air Date : 27th-Feb-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 6 - Plant Cells

Hank describes why plants are so freaking amazing - discussing their evolution, and how their cells are both similar to & different from animal cells. Air Date : 5th-Mar-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 7 - ATP & Respiration

In which Hank does some push ups for science and describes the "economy" of cellular respiration and the various processes whereby our bodies create energy in the form of ATP. Air Date : 12th-Mar-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 8 - Photosynthesis

Hank explains the extremely complex series of reactions whereby plants feed themselves on sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and also create some by products we're pretty fond of as well. Air Date : 19th-Mar-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 9 - Heredity

Hank and his brother John discuss heredity via the gross example of relative ear wax moistness. Air Date : 26th-Mar-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 10 - DNA Structure and Replication

Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells. Air Date : 2nd-Apr-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 11 - DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word Ever

Hank imagines himself breaking into the Hot Pockets factory to steal their secret recipes and instruction manuals in order to help us understand how the processes known as DNA transcription and translation allow our cells to build proteins. Air Date : 9th-Apr-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 12 - Mitosis: Splitting Up is Complicated

Hank describes mitosis and cytokinesis - the series of processes our cells go through to divide into two identical copies. Air Date : 16th-Apr-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 13 - Meiosis: Where the Sex Starts

Hank gets down to the nitty gritty about meiosis, the special type of cell division that is necessary for sexual reproduction in eukaryotic organisms. Air Date : 23rd-Apr-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 14 - Natural Selection

Hank guides us through the process of natural selection, the key mechanism of evolution. Air Date : 30th-Apr-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 15 - Speciation: Of Ligers & Men

Hank explains speciation - the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise - in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs. Air Date : 7th-May-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 16 - Animal Development: We're Just Tubes

Hank discusses the process by which organisms grow and develop, maintaining that, in the end, we're all just tubes. Air Date : 14th-May-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 17 - Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth

Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes evolved. Air Date : 21st-May-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 18 - Population Genetics: When Darwin Met Mendel

Hank talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation. Air Date : 28th-May-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 19 - Taxonomy: Life's Filing System

Hank tells us the background story and explains the importance of the science of classifying living things, also known as taxonomy. Air Date : 4th-Jun-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 20 - Evolution: It's a Thing

Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization. Air Date : 11th-Jun-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 21 - Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals

Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things. Air Date : 18th-Jun-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 22 - Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, & Octopuses

Hank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex molluscs, octopuses and squid. We differentiate them by the number of tissue layers they have, and by the complexity of those layers. Air Date : 25th-Jun-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 23 - Complex Animals: Annelids & Arthropods

Hank continues our exploration of animal phyla with the more complexly organized annelida and arthropoda, and a biolography on insects. Air Date : 2nd-Jul-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 24 - Chordates

Hank introduces us to ourselves by taking us on a journey through the fascinatingly diverse phyla known as chordata. And the next time someone asks you who you are, you can give them the facts: you're a mammalian amniotic tetrapodal sarcopterygian osteichthyen gnathostomal vertebrate cranial chordate. Air Date : 9th-Jul-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 25 - Animal Behavior

Hank and his cat Cameo help teach us about animal behavior and how we can discover why animals do the things they do. Air Date : 16th-Jul-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 26 - The Nervous System

Hank and his cat Cameo help teach us about animal behavior and how we can discover why animals do the things they do. Air Date : 23rd-Jul-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 27 - Circulatory & Respiratory Systems

Hank takes us on a trip around the body - we follow the circulatory and respiratory systems as they deliver oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from cells, and help make it possible for our bodies to function. Air Date : 30th-Jul-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 28 - The Digestive System

Hank takes us on the fascinating journey through our excretory system to learn how our kidneys make pee. Air Date : 13th-Aug-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 29 - The Excretory System: From Your Heart to the Toilet

Hank takes us on the fascinating journey through our excretory system to learn how our kidneys make pee. Air Date : 13th-Aug-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 30 - The Skeletal System: It's ALIVE!

Hank introduces us to the framework of our bodies, our skeleton, which apart from being the support and protection for all our fleshy parts, is involved in many other vital processes that help our bodies to function properly. Air Date : 20th-Aug-2012  Read More

Season 1 Episode 31 - Big Guns: The Muscular System

Hank tells us the story of the complicated chemical dance that allows our skeletal muscles to contract and relax. Air Date : 27th-Aug-2012  Read More