All Media (Animations)

Animation of water limiting and aeration limiting factors.

An animation about cereal grain and how how to measure cereal grain quality.

An interactive animation first demonstrating how controlled crosses are made in corn then asking the learner to click and drag objects to make a controlled cross of their own.

This animation illustrates the botanical parts of flower structures. Edited March, 2012.

This animations illustrates the structures of a flower, plant breeding, cross pollination and making crosses.

This animation explains how gel electrophoresis works. The affect of fragment size on movement through the gel is demonstrated.

This interactive animation provides an opportunity to practice scoring an electrophoresis gel.

This animation compares the timeline for genetic engineering versus traditional plant breeding. It also compares the regulatory processes of each.

An overview of how genes affect an organism's traits, and how those genes are passed from one generation to the next. Also explains how scientists map locations of genes on chromosomes.

This activity discusses both seed structure and seedling emergence in monocots. Through active learning elements, photos and text students will discover the basic anatomy of seeds and the function of each structure. The process of seedling emergence is presented in detail including the difference between emergence in cool-season and warm-season grasses.

General and specific examples of major Phase II reactions showing conjugation of herbicides with glutathione, sugars, or amino acids are illustrated in this animation.

This animation describes how herbicides are taken up by leaves and illustrates how physico-chemical characteristics alter their movement across cuticles. Passive and active mechanisms of herbicide absorption across plant membranes into cells are shown as well.

An animation showing how plant breeding has changed over time, including the use of molecular markers.

General and specific examples of major hydrolytic Phase I reactions are shown in this animation.

Discusses the relationship between the amount of nitrogen applied and how it affects grain yield and protein concentration in a grain crop.

Learn about the life cycle of perennials and how defoliation at different times of the season and different heights affects their growth and carbohydrate reserve levels.

Interactive learning activity on Pesticide Resistance Management - Insects: Biological Factors Affecting Development

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This interactive activity goes through the basic process used in a traditional breeding program. Crossing, genetic variation, selection and elements of DNA technology are discussed within this activity. The material is aimed towards high school or introductory life science undergraduate students.

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This animation discusses the importance of Insect Resistance Management (IRM) and illustrates different field refuge designs.

An overview of the different soil horizons, their composition and how they develop.

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This animation shows how plants uptake herbicides from the soil.

This is an interactive animation that asks the viewer to design a gene by selecting the promoter and coding region that will produce a plant with the desired traits.

This animation details how water moves through plants and how various factors affect this movement.

This interactive activity goes through the basic process used in a wheat breeding program. Crossing, genetic variation, selection and elements of DNA technology are discussed within this activity. The material is aimed towards high school or introductory life science undergraduate students.

This interactive animation invites the viewer to decide and place in order, the steps they would need to take to develop two genetically engineered plants.