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Popped Secret Film with Quiz
Interactive Video

(17 min 51 sec) Embedded quiz modules test students’ understanding as they watch a short film on the evolutionary origins of corn.
Film Guide for Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn
Film Guide

The following classroom-ready resources complement the film Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn, which tells the story of how geneticists and archaeologists have come together to determine how and where corn was domesticated nearly 9,000 years ago.
The Making of the Fittest
Collection

Each film takes students on an adventure—from the postglacial lakes in southern Alaska to the deserts of the American Southwest, and from the icy Antarctic to the highlands of East Africa,...
How We Get Our Skin Color
Animation

(3 min 32 sec) This engaging animation shows how human skin cells produce the pigment melanin, which gives skin its color.
Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn
Short Film

(17 min 51 sec) Where did corn come from? Genetic and archeological data point to what may seem like an unlikely ancestor: a wild Mexican grass called teosinte.
Single Molecules on the Move
Image of the Week

Using super-resolution microscopes, scientists have uncovered how single protein molecules behave, and the results are astonishing.
Seeing Single Molecules Move
Animation

(1 min 40 sec) Single-molecule analysis using super-resolution microscopes reveals that transcription factors are not usually found bound to their binding sites on DNA.
Stickleback Evolution Virtual Lab App
App

App version of the popular virtual lab, introducing you to the science and techniques used to analyze the threespine stickleback fish.
These Limbs Are Made for Walkin'...
Image of the Week

... but that's not all they'll do. Several genes determine the diverse shapes and functions of crustacean appendages.
Teacher Guide: Gene Regulation
Teacher Guide

Topics include: Gene regulation mechanisms and examples, gene regulation and human disease, and RNA interference.
Teacher Guide: AP Biology
Teacher Guide

This guide correlates all the resources available on the Holiday Lectures on Science DVDs and throughout the BioInteractive.org website to specific Big Ideas, Enduring Understandings, and Essential Knowledge threads of the new AP® Biology Curriculum Framework.
The Making of the Fittest: Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies
Short Film

(15 min 27 sec) After the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago, populations of marine stickleback fish became stranded in freshwater lakes dotted throughout the Northern Hemisphere in places like Alaska and British Columbia. These fish have adapted to a freshwater environment drastically different than the ocean.
Lactose Intolerance: Fact or Fiction
Activity

Students evaluate and discuss several statements about lactose intolerance and evolution before and after watching the film.
The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation
Short Film

(10 min 25 sec) The rock pocket mouse is a living example of Darwin’s process of natural selection.
Got Lactase? Blood Glucose Data Analysis
Activity

Students interpret the results of two different tests for lactase persistence.
Modeling the Regulatory Switches of the Pitx1 Gene in Stickleback Fish
Activity

A hands-on activity in which students interpret molecular diagrams and build physical models of eukaryotic gene regulation.
The Making of the Fittest: Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture
Short Film

(14 min 52 sec) Follow human geneticist Spencer Wells, Director of the Genographic Project of the National Geographic Society, as he tracks down the genetic changes associated with the ability to digest lactose as adults.
Film Guides: Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture
Film Guide

The following classroom-ready resources complement Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture, which tells the story of the evolution of the ability to digest lactose, a genetic trait that arose in humans within the last 10,000 years in some pastoralist cultures.
Film Guides: Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies
Film Guide

These classroom-ready resources complement the short film Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies, which tells the story of the dramatic transformation of stickleback fish as they adapted to living in freshwater habitats drastically different from the ocean.
Regulation of the Lactase Gene
Click & Learn

Lactase persistence results from a mutation that changes how transcription factors interact, thereby affecting gene expression.