While looking for chemistry videos I just accidentally stumbled on an evangelical video that was literally saying that molecules degrade and don't exist outside of host living beings and how scientists don't understand this 😳 I think I lost brain cells. I've watched this class before so as soon as I saw it I clicked to wash the dumb away
@@whatabouttheearth I lost brain cells hearing a MIT professor say that Shrek humans evolved. Dont believe everything someone tells you, including MIT professors.
This Intro would be a great basis for a TED talk on the current state of Biology. Open Courseware has been a lifesaver for me during Covid-19. I'm 74 and cannot tolerate the commercial television media in any great quantity. Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra is a fine challenge. I also enjoy Jeffrey Grossman's energy with Solid State Chemistry. Not by bread alone, so I do have an appetite for other channels but OCW is a staple. Thank you.
I'd like to be like you if fortunately I reach your age. I am 34 now, electrical engineering re-learning mathematics with an appetite for biology and medicine (since before the pandemic). Greetings from Peru!
@Richard Omar no one gives a shit because everybody sees it's a scam. And for those who don't see it, why would anybody shares randomly how to hack people in a chemistry class?
I got so emotional during this lecture I'm from Malaysia and I'm currently doing my A-levels here. The thing about education here and also the thing about modern late gen-z students in Asia is that a vast majority of students don't actually care or love the material we're studying nor do we find some immaculate passion derived from it either, it's more so that we pursue something we've been claimed as "good at", so we get into these high prestige universities and colleges, do a course that's highly sought after, and then we complete the course with the goal and aim of getting a very high-paying job. unfortunately, I fell into this rabbit hole and it made me realise just how much I didn't actually know about biology, biochemistry, the field i wanted to continue to study and work in. this lecture kind of nursed back that blob of passion in me and it is very refreshing, comforting, and nice to be back to how I used to feel about going into and learning biochemistry thank you
You're so right . All this time I have been preparing for entrance exams , getting good college , jobs and all , I literally forgot why I love science and rn I am on a break before staring my masters degree. I learn so much through all these open courses, reading new science articles and researching to all my heart's content.
The inaudible part is CRISPR/Cas referring to crispr cas9 mechanism of editing genes and DNA. Cas9 is the enzyme used for editing the genetic material if anyone is interested
This is an astonishing intro lecture! I'm far from being a professional in Biology but watching these 2 professors presenting this information, it really got my attention. The moment where they showed the cells in motion was incredible. It looks like most of the secrets of life itself run at a so microscopic level that it's unobservable to most of us!
It's been a long time for me coming out of a cult which preached that education that taught evolution was evil, and it would send me to hell if I asked questions about it or explored understanding of it. I'm extremely grateful for having the technology in my hands right now that allows me inside a MIT classroom. In the cult I was in, I grew up not knowing about these kinds of colleges and universities. It was all about Pensacola Christian College and Institute for Basic Life Principles, and Bob Jones. Thank you for posting.
The enthusiasm and energy of both professors make me want to be in class because I want to, not because I have to. Not to mention their welcoming characters during office hours and running hours.
What I've learnt? A framework. Nothing is taught in excruciating detail, this introductory lesson gave a basic framework, a basic idea of what we're going to explore in the future lectures. Summary Points: 1. Origin of life millions/billions of years ago -Introduction of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes. 2. Multicellular organisms and their genetic material. - Length of their genome - Evolutionary study of their genome 3. How we understood the basis of genetics. - Structure of DNA - How we all have 99.9% same genome 4. Use of Fluorescence to sequence genome (Visualisation) - Comparison of genome of trillions of our own cells - treatment of diseases (genetically) 5. Ethics in Biology 6. Inheritance 7. Application of everything we are going to learn (in real world: Crimes and medicine) 8. Know about your ancestry/Lineage - for catching criminals 9. Cell signalling and how molecules/cells interact within our body 10. How our body takes it's shape? - Learn about our body with the help of some models of Fly's embryo (I guess can't study with human embryo because of those ethical stuff explained before👀) Thank you! Regards, Gaurav Deep Twitter: @_gauravdeep_
Thank you for posting this course. I wanted to take Biology during my college career, but was unable due to needing to commit to my major coursework as I was struggling with mental health issues at the time. This course seems exciting, and I'm very grateful for the clarification that no pre-knowledge is required (I unfortunately have a poor science background currently). I was honestly feeling a flood of anxiety coming on watching this intro lecture (just me?), due to the sheer volume of information being presented, but do feel that I'll be able to get a lot out of this class without the pressure of exams and deadlines to worry about.
Always feel free to pause this adventure when it gets too intense, get a cup of chamomile tea, and return. As a former biology teacher, I always monitored my class for facial cues of "overwhelmed" and of "worry" but here you just hit pause and enjoy this at your own pace.
I heard the whole lecture and I found it very interesting. Mrs.Imperiali talked about the inner workings of the cell in biology. Such as the structure of the cell and the ethics of cloning cells to create other organisms. Mr. Martin elaborated on what Mrs. Imperiali talked about. He also added that a DNA search from a family tree caught an ex-cop for a murder case he was in. Biology is amazing. I can't wait to hear more lectures on biology.
Prof. Imperiali, your class is larger than you can imagine. Internet students. If you ever asked for enrollment and submission of assignments you'll gladly be overwhelmed. Thank you for helping us build up our careers.
I love how Prof. Imperiali doesn't waste time with meaningless waffle unrelated to the course materials. She quickly introduces the course staff, detailing their backgrounds to provide context, before moving on to an overview of what the course will cover. Why can't more courses do this instead of spending 20 minutes repeating the same dribble about course schedules which is already covered in course notes? In any case, it is refreshing. A professor excited about the material that they are teaching should always be conveyed with their body language and the strength of their language.
@@peterxdr big brain. You start the academic year in the fall and end it in the spring. THEN, you start the next academic year the same year, just in the fall.
Amazing thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏 I’m planning to get back to college and your lectures were the stepping stones to re-educate myself until I get the chance to get back to the university 💐💐💐
thank u so much for this lecture! i was really mesmerized seeing the fluorescent protein application in studying and observing the cell divison! its just so good!
thank you very much for such lecture both professors. I am currently developing some content for a nursing program and i am proud to say i am referencing from this
Every organism extant now can be considered rather equally evolved, although selective stresses in shorter periods than the whole, may induce increased selection for change.
Fascinating intro thank you, I'm amazed and eager to learn more. from the basic structure of the double helix, cellular division and replication of DNA. to advanced programmed cellular functionality and structured bio synthetic engineering. Artificial intelligence is inevitable. I believe it's 100% beneficial, for the next step in evolution. The applications of bio synthetic engineering has endless possibilities. Imagine a global unity with advanced technology's for a cleaner-greener Earth. Immortality and although I may sound like a mad scientist in si-fi novel. I can even imagine an interstellar advanced Super Human civilization. this is just the surface of much more to come.
Yes, although i watched some videos previously but with crisis i have enough time to watch more. I wish there would be some lectures on some detailed topics on such as Cell Biology, Immunology, Biochemistry, Ecology, or even some detailed topics in Chemistry and Physics like Inorganic, Organic, Organometallic, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Statistical Thermodynamics, Astronomy, Fluid Physics.
The required textbook is: Sadava, D. E., D. M. Hillis, et al. Life: The Science of Biology. 11th ed. W. H. Freeman, 2016. ISBN: 9781319145446. See the course on MIT OpenCourseWare for more info and materials at: ocw.mit.edu/7-016F18. Best wishes on your studies!
@@mitocw Thank y'all for putting full courses on line for free, especially since some of humanity still suffers from huge anti intellectual, anti science tendencies. Alot of people can't go to college for a variety of reasons but still want to learn about their world, thank you.
is ammonium chloride in the water (and other products) , and hyper concentrated calcium, potassium and iron. which in conjunction are just horrible for the chemistry of the heart. there are likely much worse substances going around here. (in "Brantford Ontario Canada")
man i keep striking gold mines, first it was prehistory now its biology, i better understand it all and become a doctor of myself by the end of this course heheeh
This whole series is great when you have an IB Bio teacher that has no clue what she's doing. Glad MIT decided to publish all this stuff completely for free.
Reading the fact that 1-2% code is for proteins made me take a pause. As a person with ehlers-danlos syndrome, which is caused by protein synthesis. Would this not be one of the easier things to solve for the public to solve?