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Cells

Lab equipment in background with illustration of DNA strand, question marks, and an arrow pointing to the horn on a unicorn. Caption: We'd want to know what parts of the genome make the horn.
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Episode 2
2 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman with shoulder-length brown hair parts her lips mid-speech in front of white bookshelves. Title card reads, "How Big Are Tree Genomes?"
6 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of beige spherical shapes and a single bright-green spiky shape. Caption: A virus is a lean, mean disease machine.
1 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Large spherical object surrounded by smaller multi-sphere objects. Nova Caption: Carbon is one of the most versatile elements.
1 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Alex Dainis is seated in front of her book shelf. Animation of a cell structure. Caption: And this volume includes all of its organelles.
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer model of spiral ribbon structures with hollow, hexagonal tubular structures. Caption: (male narrator) What's the best was to know a protein?
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Episode 132
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Diagram of a cell with spherical objects in the middle. Each object has a clear ring around the exterior. Caption: In eukaryotes, a cell nucleus protects the DNA.
3 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12