Teach Me Biology

Today we're talking about feedback mechanisms, the second episode in our homeostasis topic!Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

Welcome back... to us! It's been too long! New topic alert - today we learn about Homeostasis, lots of recap about enzymes in this one. Good to be back.Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

This is our last episode on genetics, this week we talk about Epistasis. It's a short one but very interesting! Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

Rather embarrassing sound quality this week. We had an issue with Ria's microphone so its actually only Sarahs microphone recording us resulting in the very obvious difference in sound! Sorry guys but we wanted to still put something out rather nothing. This is our third instalment of episodes all about genetics, today we learn all about inheritance of certain conditions such as colour blindness. Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

This week we continue with genetics and did you know, it's Ria's favourite part of Biology! Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

This is a very special bonus episode. We have a very special guest, Maisie, and she is here to talk about exam stress and ways to overcome your anxiety.Here are some important links! Revision | On My Mind | Anna Freud CentreExam Stress | What is Exam Stress & How to Deal with it | Kids HelplineExam Stress | How To Deal with Exam Stress | YoungMindsExam Stress- How To Deal And Reduce Stress (insightfulcounselling.com)Exams: how to deal with exam stress - BBC BitesizeExam stress and pressure | ChildlineFind us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

This week we talk genetics! We learn all about homozygous and heterozygous genotypes!Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

Continuing on the topic of skeletal muscle, we are now looking at the contraction of the skeletal muscle.Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologyDiscovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Today we are learning about skeletal muscle, what it's made from and how it works.

We're Back! Can you believe it?Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologyHURRICANE CENTERWe talk with hurricane experts and communicators about hurricanesListen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

It's the one you've all been waiting for... Synaptic transmission. This week we're learning all about synaptic knobs. Ria is a little bit poorly in this one, I have cut out all the coughing and spluttering but she is a little on the quiet side.Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

This episode - still covering the nerve cell topic, we delve a little deeper looking at the passage of action potentials. Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

This week we learn about the nerve impulse. This is an electrical charge that travels along the neuron. Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show

Today we learn about two different types of fertiliser, organic and inorganic and how this effects the environment.

This week we learn the phosphorus cycle and we also have a chat about a fungi man by the name of Mycorr Hiza.

We're back! This week we learn about the conversion of nitrogen. For anyone making notes, these are the long words -  Nitrogen fixation, Nitrification, Assimilation, Ammonification, Denitrification.Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiology)

This episode is all about energy and ecosystems. We learn about biomass and food chains/webs. Don't forget - NPP = GPP – RFind us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiology)

This episode is all about heart rate. ❤️ Here are some key words - baroreceptors, SAN, medulla, sympathetic  and parasympathetic neurones. Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiology)

This weeks episode is all about the eyes! We learn all about cones and rods and the fovea! Did you know dogs can only see in black and white? They have no cones!Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiology)

In this episode of Teach Me Biology we learn all about receptors! And we learn some new words such as pacinian corpuscle! I really need to start taking notes, these words are too much for me,Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiology)

This week learn about the limiting factors of photosynthesis, these could be heat, light or carbon dioxide. And we also learn all about the colour green. Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastSupport us - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiologySupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiology)

Lets learn the Calvin cycle! Part 2 of photosynthesis.

This week it's all about plants, chlorophyll, light energy and ATP! ☀️

This week it's all about the nervous system in-particular - the reflex arc!

This week it's all about phototropism, gravitropism, roots and shoots, its must be Plant Responses. 

This week we have a special guest... a ghost!

This week's episode is a look at anaerobic respiration - the production of energy without oxygen.

I think this episode proves it guys... Mitochondria really is the powerhouse of the cell! Respiration part 4!Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastDonate! - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiology

It's time for the Krebs cycle!

Part 2 of respiration - it's time for the link reaction! Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastDonate! - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiology

Finally we bring to you, the most requested topic ever... Respiration! This week we tackle the first stage of respiration - Glycolysis! We will be covering respiration over four weeks - next week the link reaction. Find us on the internet! Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail  - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycastDonate! - www.buymeacoffee.com/teachmebiology

Continuing from last week - Transport in plants! This week the Phloem. If there was a ketchup or a sink emoji, I would have inserted them here...

This weeks fantastic episode is all about Transport in plants! Here are some keywords to lure you in - stomata, lignin and transpiration!

Let's learn all about biodiversity!

Continuing on from last week, today we learn all about methods of classification. Here are some emojis to sum up the ep -

Today we learn all about classification and the seven categories of classification. I will sum up the episode with the following emojis......

Let's learn all about Diversity, Natural Selection and don't forget... Alleles! 

Today we learn all about tissue fluid and capillary beds. Fascinating stuff! #itscominghomeFind us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast

Today we learn all about blood vessels! Arteries, arterioles, veins and capillaries!Also I (Sarah) sound all bunged up because I had a blocked nose.

Let's learn all about the heart! This is a good one!Did you know your heart beats about 115,000 times each day? Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast

Let's learn all about Haemoglobin and the transportation of oxygen to cells in the body!Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast

Let's learn all about chromosome mutations!Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast 

Let's learn all about variation from meiosis, independent segregation, crossing over and we compare Meiosis and Mitosis. Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast

Genetics! In this episode we quickly recap mitosis and we learn about the process of Meiosis. Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast

In this episode we learn about the digestion and absorption of lipids and how to correctly pronounce "chylomicron." Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast

In this episode we learn about the digestion of protein.

In this episode we recap what we already know about the digestive system and we learn about the digestion of carbohydrates.Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast

Today we learn all about lung function and how diseases such as asthma, tuberculosis and emphysema can effect and damage the lungs.  Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast

Let's learn about the lungs! This one is inspiring.

Let's learn about leaves! Gas Exchange in leaves and plants that are adapted for dry/hot conditions. Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast

Today we learn all about gils! It's time for gas exchange in fish!Find us on the internet!Our website - Teachmescience.co.ukEmail - teachmebiologycast@gmail.comTwitter - twitter.com/teachmebiocastInstagram - @teachmebiologycast