I just wanted to thank you for making these videos open to the public. I am taking genetics at the moment with a horrible teacher. After reading the book 1,000 times I decided to check out RU-vid and luckily found your lectures! Amazing
*Oh boy, 20 free lectures on genetics?* I'm a history & social studies major looking to go into psychology for grad school & I can tell your lectures are gonna help a lot. Thanks for the upload, it's really a good service! :)
Thank you, Thomas, for putting all the work, time, and effort to make this available online. I'm crash-coursing through your videos in preparation for actually taking the course at university. Thanks a million.
i love comments like these from people who are autodidacts using youtube to teach themselves about science. Its very inspiring that people want to learn using the internet and free resources in spite of socioeconomic circumstances
Thank you for making your lessons open to public! I am a student at the last year of an Italian high school and I have been passionate about the subject in class so I looked for a way to deepen the topic and I'm extremely happy to have found your videos. I find them simple but precise and explained in a nice and easy way to follow without getting bored at all. I think I'll probably watch the whole series before the summer break ends. Thank you so much again!!
I’m having insomnia and listening to this lecture to help me sleep. But its also extremely engaging. I just finished Behave by Sapolsky, Brain Energy by Palmer and up to chapter 13 of Brain & Behaviour. I’m really interested in genetics as well. The talking is very relaxing but the content is also very educational at the same time.
You are an amazing teacher with a great passion for teaching and disseminating the knowledge across the world. May the blessing be with you and your loved ones!!! Prof. May I know if you have uploaded these slides on a website or what text book you recommend. Stay safe and blessed!
Thank you so much for your lecture Mr. Mennella. I am going to take a course in general genetics this Fall, and this lecture video helps a bunch. I look forward in learning genetics through the rest of your video.
You certainly got off to a great start with this introductory course on genetics for what I presume to be undergraduate biology or life science majors, in lucid and clear manner without the usual pompous and presumptuous manner that is notorious with too many college professors (particularly the tenured ones). And, yes, Watson is a jerk who falls in that category and he's not even a professor but a traveling Nobel Laureate lecturer who's been capitaluzing on his questionable accomplishment, commanding premium speaker fees from the top universities of the world ever since getting the Prize. Previous viewers of this first lecture seemed to show positive responses, as well. But, I will reserve my final critique of your series until I see how well you make difficult concepts easy to grasp as it progresses in the remaining lectures.
I just wanted to say thank you so much. I went back to grad school for a career change into plant genetics, and it's been 10 years since I had basic genetics as an undergrad (and if we're being real, I was not the best student as an undergrad). I also didn't major in biology, but natural resources management for both my BS and first MS, so not a huge focus on this stuff anyways. Now I'm in two graduate-level genetics classes and feel like I'm having to re-teach myself everything. And you've got so much good content that I feel like after a week or so of daily 4+ hours of your vids and taking notes, I'll be caught up enough to be able to hang on.
The session was quite encouraging sir .My question is "Does the proteins synthesized in different organisms act/work differently or not ? Do they play same role in all organism?"
Thomas Mennella, Is there a possibility that you share the power points? only if it is possible, and if it is not possible, I thank you anyway for these valuable lectures
@@thomasmennella5501 I've watched all your lectures and learned so much. Thank you so much. I really needed this as I am about to start a marine biology master but was just lacking some knowledge in genetics. I've also read 'the selfish gene'. Do you have any opinion on the book?
So true! And the right order of credit (actually, perhaps then it should be Franklin, Crick and Watson in order of importance). Thanks so much for the rightly deserved shout out!
@@thomasmennella5501 oh thank you so muchh for taking the time to reply!! These lecture series are amazing!! And you're super! Keep posting!! I really appreciate your work!!
Hi Anthony - I wish I could say that I was pining for the early days of our collective evolution before the pivotal Philadelphia translocation event reduced our chromosome number from 48 to 46, permanently severing our lineage from our closest cousins, the chimpanzee. But, alas, this was just a simple and boring error of misspeaking. Happens to all of us…
He’s either referring to the controversy around him from January 2019 (google it you’ll see what I’m talking about) or...he may just be referring to the way he is in general. When I read “The Double Helix” I was a little taken back at what a jerk he was especially when Rosalind Franklin came up, it was pretty clear he hated her but never for good reason. Weird thing is, that’s his book too and he makes himself look like a jerk.
First of all.... use better terms like "humans", not "man" That's oppressive and sexist. What does religion have to with science? Again, Oppression and false pretense
