The Biologic Podcast
Episodes
Episode 30 - Future Evolution of Earth Life
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the presence of Human development and pollution, and extreme climate change, what does the future hold for the evolution of Earth life?
Episode 29 - The Holocene
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Holocene marks the most recent ~10,000 years of natural history, including the rise of Human civilization and the wholesale transformation of the ...
Episode 28 - The Phanerozoic Eon III: The Cenozoic Era
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Cenozoic Era began with the destruction of the dinosaurs, and would see the rise to dominance and wild diversification of the birds and the mammal...
Episode 27 - The Phanerozoic Eon II: The Mesozoic Era
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Mesozoic Era saw the evolutionary emergence and rise to dominance of the dinosaurs, and the emergence of early bird and mammal ancestors.
Episode 26 - The Phanerozoic Eon I: The Paleozoic Era
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Paleozoic Era saw the rapid emergence of increasingly complex life forms that filled the sea and the land, but they would all face extinction duri...
Episode 25 - The Precambrian
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Life on Earth is billions of years old. This ancient natural history comes to us in the form of fossils and genetic relationships, revealing the incre...
Episode 24 - Human Evolution
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
All populations are subject to perpetual evolution, and Humans are no exception; peer into our distant past and observe the evolutionary history of th...
Episode 23 - Phylogenetics
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As all living things are fundamentally related, phylogenetics is the study of these genetic relationships, and the evolutionary history of the many di...
Episode 22 - Divergence & Speciation
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When populations groups diverge, whether they're separated geographically, temporally, or behaviorally, they find themselves on the pathway to speciat...
Episode 21 - Mechanisms of Evolution
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Besides natural selection, evolution is influenced by mechanisms like gene flow, the random walk of genetic drift, and the novelty-generating phenomen...
Episode 20 - Natural Selection
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The forces of natural selection remove from the gene pool those lineages too unfit to survive in a given habitat, while those with good health survive...
Episode 19 - Introduction to Evolution
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A brief introduction to evolution, including its mechanisms, selective pressures, runaway effects, and the fundamental importance of evolution as a gu...
Episode 18 - Gene Modification
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Genetic information is complex; there's the gene sequence, the regulation of gene expression, and there are even mechanisms to modify genes, allowing ...
Episode 17 - Gene Expression
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The gene itself encodes raw information, but this is just the beginning of gene expression, which is a complex, highly-regulated, and tightly-coordina...
Episode 16 - DNA Synthesis & Repair
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
New DNA molecules are generated through a complex replication process, and mutations can be repaired with a variety of mechanisms.
Episode 15 - Transcription & Translation
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The genome encodes information to 'build' the organism; the process of transcription encodes the DNA information into RNA, and translation encodes the...
Episode 14 - Meiosis
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meiosis is a specialized form of cellular replication, which creates many haploid daughter cells, each possessing a single copy of the genome.
Episode 13 - Introduction to Genetics
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A brief introduction to genetics, including the structure of DNA and RNA, gene expression, genome replication, and more.
Episode 12 - The Cell Cycle
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As organisms a born, grow, reproduce, and die, so too do cells. The cell cycle is the pattern of cellular growth & replication that sustains life.
Episode 11 - Inter-Cell Relationships
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The cell is one among many; all cells in a tissue, or an organ, or an organism, have relationships with other cells, and these relationships help to s...
Episode 10 - Cellular Respiration
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cellular respiration is a perpetual cycle of energy generation that sustains not just the cell, but the life of the organism it's a part of.
Episode 9 - Metabolic Energy & Enzymes
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Enzymes are among several diverse groups of chemicals that participate in the metabolic pathways that keep the cell alive.
Episode 8 - Cellular Subsystems
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The cell perpetuates itself with a variety of organelles, metabolic pathways, and biochemical subsystems.
Episode 7 - Introduction to the Cell
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A brief introduction to the cell, including its structure, physiology, metabolism, and replication.
Episode 6 - Membranes & Lipids
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The lipids are fundamental building blocks of life, as they can store energy for the long-term, and they compose the cellular membrane.
Episode 5 - Carbohydrates
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The carbohydrates are carbon-rich molecules that can do many things, from storing energy, to supplying carbon atoms for molecular synthesis.
Episode 4 - Nucleic Acids
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The nucleic acids are fundamental building blocks of life, forming the basis for countless derivative compounds, and the monomers of DNA.
Episode 3 - Proteins
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The proteins are an incredibly diverse group of organic chemicals, whose structural & enzymatic capacities are critical for life.
Episode 2 - The Chemicals of Life
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Living things are chemical superstructures; what kinds of chemicals compose the stuff of life?
Episode 1 - Introduction to Biology
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A brief introduction to the science of biology; what it is, how it's developed, and why it's important.