The DNA Instruction Manual

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Code For Life (Episode 2): The DNA Instruction Manual.

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CODE FOR LIFE:

Beginning more than three and a half billion years ago, a tiny, primitive molecule encoded instructions deep within itself. Then it passed these instructions on to its children, who passed it to their children and so on - all the way down through time to all living things today.

The human genome, written in a code of just four letters, tells us who we really are - and that generates many questions!

Is this process of natural selection coming to an end? Should we choose the best that is in us for our children? If so, who gets to decide what is meant by "the best that is in us"? From amino acids in space to human genes in corn -- this is the story.

1) The Human Genome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj_m-1Mzau4
2) The DNA Instruction Manual:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBfuVuelkoY
3) Genetic Disorders And Diseases:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4he3wLgkM
4) Pandora's Box Of Genetics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp0qw9gq9hQ

FROM BIG BANG TO MAN:

This is the story of the universe and our place within it. And if that's not enough, we will describe how every atom in existence today came into beeing, how galaxies formed, how our own solar system began. We will trace the progress of life on Earth from its humble beginnings to the emergence of mitochondrial Eve. And from Eve until now, we will follow the progress as humankind spread around the globe.

1. The Baby Universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpFbUI7T6Yk
2. The Present Universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrHMH94Mrk0
3. Origin And Evolution Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SgnnV8nV9g
4. The First Humans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-nLJI2BZIM
5. Evolution Of Modern Humans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KjJ234XPC4

EVOLUTION:

1. Does The Evidence Support Evolution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1R8w_QEvEU
2. Vitamin C And Common Ancestry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2N2lbb3dk
3. Are We Descended From Viruses?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsWZCSMSSs
4. Does The Fossil Record Support Evolution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVoXZPOCGk
5. Where Are The Transitional Forms?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfTbrHg8KGQ

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[DayDark87]

hahaha! xD

I have blue eyes, and that is freakin helarious!

Hitler: "Blue eyes are superior!!!"

Scientist:"Actually, it's because the eye is handicapped."

[navmachine]

fascinating information. I really liked the use of visuals in the explanation of the protein shapes. (i personally have two different coloured eyes :)

[braunblender]

i must admit im totally clueless about biology. . how do you know what side of the DNA ladder your sequencing. . you get a sequence, say ATCCTA, how can you tell if its that and not 1/2 the "right side and 1/2 "the left"??

[ndrthrdr1]

Creationists can't handle truth.

That's just too damn bad.

[ThePhilosorpheus]

@Aldawok12 Don´t worry, the discussion will go on with or without you. If it didn´t, we´d all be stuck like you.

[FantasyandJesus101]

lol, sound effects are pretty fun

[08arijit]

im a hindu and i believe in aircrafts and rocket science more than flying chariots and monkeys...

[Matu1]

This stuff is so trippy, i love it.Should watch this on shrooms ;D

[Aldawok12]

Derp Derp Im a Creationist

Derp Derp Im an Evolutionist

Keep it in church/thoughts/away from me

[puncheex]

Assertion city. Tell me what "older literature" that causes doubts about "sincerity of these authors", and I'll consider it. Science makes no attempt to pit itself against god, it merely seeks to explain the world naturally rather than supernaturally. So far, it seems to have worked out well. Wouldn't you say so, using a computer build on scientific principles and powered by a grid system that depends, among other things, on nuclear fusion, quantum mechanics and other "theories"?

[puncheex]

@Bobbyaf: Isaiah says that god "sits above the circle of the earth". Jewish cosmology, in common, not surprisingly, with other Mesopotamian civilizations, projects the Earth as a flat circular disk (google it if you don't believe me), so there is nothing at all odd about this expression, although the idea of him sitting on the edge and dangling his feet over is a bit comic. A spherical earth model, though known to classical Greeks, eluded most of Christianity until middle age times.

Your ball.