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Get yourself ready for the cold wet field course that awaits you! Find out how the topic of ecology relates to the real world...

Keeping your body under control in an ever changing environment takes learning, nerves and hormones.

You are a battlefield in a war that rages constantly in your bloodstream. Find out how you stay on top, and what happens if the microbes ever win...

Once upon a time you were a tiny dot called a zygote. Then, you made a perfect copy of yourself by cell division. From then on, its just been one division after another...

You see a lot of it in video games these days, but what's it for, and why is it bad for you if it leaks out? Find out all about blood in this episode.

What's good to eat? What's not? How do you turn a yummy quark and lettuce sandwich into something you can use to repair a torn ligament? find out as we go down the digestive tract...

How can we train bacteria and plants (maybe even animals) to grow better, or make new products for humans? Genetic engineering is big news.

A rather grim topic this episode as we review some of the latest science on why you should really try to give up smoking NOW!

Why do you look so much like a better made version of your parents? Listen to the wonderful world of genetics...

It all starts here. If you don't know how cells work, you don't know enough about biology.

We hear a lot about the greenhouse effect these days, and we should, but get inside the science of the carbon and nitrogen cycles in this episode.