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This programme follows one of science's most famous biologists, Charles Darwin, on the historis round-the-world voyage that prompted his ideas on the process of biological change, evolution. Tropic...al forests, oceanic islands and vast continents threw up unusual puzzles that set him thinking about how plants and animals might be related and how they might alter with time. Almost a hundred years later, one of biology's least sung heroes, Frederick Griffith, used one of nature's simplest organisms - the bacteria - to demonstrate how change might be transmitted from one generation to the next. This paved the way to the discovery of the now familiar molecule of hereditary, DNA. This historical peep from Darwin to DNA sets the contaxt for the concerns of modern genetics.
This programme follows one of science's most famous biologists, Charles Darwin, on the historis round-the-world voyage that prompted his ideas on the process of biological change, evolution. Tropic...al forests, oceanic islands and vast continents threw up unusual puzzles that set him thinking about how plants and animals might be related and how they might alter with time. Almost a hundred years later, one of biology's least sung heroes, Frederick Griffith, used one of nature's simplest organisms - the bacteria - to demonstrate how change might be transmitted from one generation to the next. This paved the way to the discovery of the now familiar molecule of hereditary, DNA. This historical peep from Darwin to DNA sets the contaxt for the concerns of modern genetics.
| Module code and title: | S102, Science: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | S102; 19 |
| First transmission date: | 1988 |
| Published: | 1988 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Rissa de la Paz |
| Contributor: | Neil Chambers |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Finches; Frederick Griffith; Galapogos Islands; Tropical forests |
| Subject terms: | Bacteria; Continents; DNA; Evolution; Genetics; Islands--History; Evolution--History; Genetics--History; Natural selection; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 |
| Master spool number: | HOU5955 |
| Production number: | FOUS512L |
| Videofinder number: | 1975 |
| Available to public: | no |
