MERLOT Materials

Each mp3 voice recording accompanies a PowerPoint slide or set of slides. These two files were bundled together with a... see more

Video detailing discovery of penicillin

This is a stand alone presentation for students to summarize the overall process by which photosynthesis converts solar... see more

This video shows the response that plants have toward sunlight in terms of phototropism. It contains footage of various... see more

This is the journal site for the American Society of Plant Biologists. This particular site provides information for... see more

Four webcasts of lectures covering the basics of human development and stem cells. Lecture one covers human embryonic... see more

Part of a larger Population Ecology Home Page, this is a complete course on quantitative population ecology for graduate... see more

Redox Proteins is an Internet tutorial intended as a computer-based laboratory exercise for undergraduate students in... see more

This video was recorded at The Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease. Pigeons really like millet seed, monkeys crave juice,... see more

Educational studies have found that despite classroom presentations, most students retain their naïve idea that a plant’s... see more

In this segment of Secrets of the Mind, Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran explains his research on why phantom limb pain... see more

Secrets of the Sequenceis a series of 50+ videos with accompanying classroom-tested lesson plans.  They are designed to... see more

This film examines how the eye functions to help us see clear, vibrant images under a broad range of environmental... see more

The Dating Game teaches students about sexual selection and the difference between intrasexual and intersexual selection.

This video was recorded at 3rd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology (MLSB), Ljubljana 2009.... see more

This website is a detailed description of skeletal bones and joints. There are also descriptions of various types of... see more

This is an audio lecture on special senses. Students are shown various slides with detailed explanations.

A video introduction to the spectrophotometer and principles of the Bradford Assay for determining protein concentration.

Demonstration of Streak Plate material

Schultes was an ethnobotanist, explorer and writer who collected more than 24,000 plant species in his lifetime. He is... see more

This video was recorded at MIT World Host: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. According to David Page, "the Y... see more

This video was recorded at 6th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology (MLSB), Basel 2012. To what... see more

Video demonstration of how to conduct a Gram stain to identify bacterial types.

A series of 8 videos providing an overview and then step by step guide to the Haematoxylin and Eosin stain.