NEW Crash Course Biology Series!

as the science of Life biology is about everything that lives grows poops and dies if you're breathing right now and I sure hope you are that's biology at work and it's not just happening inside of you but also above you below you and all around you basically biology has got you surrounded it's in the medicine you take when you're sick and the vaccines that keep you

from severe illness it's in your dog selectively bred to be your best friend it's in your body's 30 trillion cells working hard behind the scenes as you belt out some Beyonce in the shower I can see your bio oh your bio and in the 40 trillion microbes treating your guts like an apartment complex as you digest last night's Pizza it's also in last night's Pizza we

owe the wonders of tomato bread and cheese so the power of soil sun and photosynthesis biology is behind the pineapple as well though I'm not sure who's to blame for putting pineapple on pizza and I know that this is like a big argument these days but my hot take is it's all right no shade so really biology is about everything alive and what makes life worth

living now I know some of you might be thinking didn't you already do a biology series yes we did and Hank's goatee won't be back for this one but we're using everything that we've learned over the past decade of Crash Course to make you an even better series biology 2.0 if you will hi I'm Dr Sammy your friendly neighborhood entomologist and I'll be your host I'm

the endowed professor of Entomology at the University of Colorado Boulder where I study honeybees and teach about symbiosis and science communication my work focuses on how creatures form super close amazingly complex relationships like the ones between pollinators and flowers that are responsible for much of our food or the parasites munching on the bee's liver that threatened that intricate balance of pollination we'll talk about lots of

fascinating stuff like this and more in this series our new crash course biology or head on over to crash course in espanol to watch Crash Course biology hosted by many Contreras over the next 50 episodes wait 50 we get so we're gonna put this fine we got this we got this over the next 50 episodes we'll find out just how connected life really is we'll Zoom

between itty bitty cells and vast Global Cycles we'll discover how species evolve how genes work and what the heck happens inside a cell anyway and what sends nutrients ricocheting from soil to your stomach and back again we'll also take a look behind the science through the stories of biologists both past and present that you might not have heard before like how Dr anurag Agarwal found out

that chewed up radish plants fight back against very hungry caterpillars or how Dr Jane cook Wright proved that a chemotherapy drug still in use today could work at a time when chemotherapy was thought to Taboo or absurd at the same time we'll see how biology can help us respond to our Global challenges like hunger access to clean water and climate change we'll find that it's not

so easy to pin down exactly what life is but that one little word life connects living breathing you to every bug bat and Barnacle that has ever well lived so join me as we explore our place in a big diverse family tree about four billion years in the making I'm so excited to discover it with you this series was produced in collaboration with hhmi biointeractive if

you're an educator visit biointeractive.org crash course for classroom resources and professional development related to the topics covered in this course thanks for watching this episode of Crash Course biology which was made with the help of all of these nice people and if you want to help keep crash course free for everyone forever you can join our community on patreon [Music]