Episodes

  • Episode 5: Unit 5, Heredity
    Apr 8 2025

    Genetics. Heredity. Chromosomes. Synapsis. Chiasmata. Phenotypes. Genotypes. Linked Genes. Recombination. Epistasis. Phenotypic Plasticity. Nondisjunction. They're all here, on this fifth episode of That Bio Girl.


    Credit: See the official description of my podcast to see the sources used in all my podcast episodes.


    Error 1: I meant to say "eukaryotes" instead of "karyotes" at 18:04.

    Error 2: While discussing X-linked trait inheritance patterns on pedigrees, I forgot to mention tips on how to recognize X-linked dominant traits! Here are some tips on how to identify X-linked dominant traits on pedigrees from the following website: https://migrc.org/teaching-tools/genetic-inheritance-patterns/sexx-linked-dominant/

    "After filling in the genotypes for individuals in several family trees that exhibit this mode of inheritance, some patterns that can be noticed are:

    • All daughters of a male who has the trait will also have the trait.
    • There is no male to male transmission; the trait follows the inheritance of the X-chromosome.
    • Sons can have the trait only if their mother also has the trait.
    • Same inheritance pattern as autosomal dominant traits in human females" (para. 2).

    Error 3: I meant to clarify this in the episode, but "chiasma" refers to one location of crossing over in prophase 1 whereas "chiasmata" refers to multiple locations of crossing over in prophase 1.

    I hope this helps you guys!

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    59 mins
  • Episode 4: Unit 4, Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
    Feb 17 2025

    Direct Contact. Local Regulators. Long-Distance Signaling. Quorum Sensing. Ligand-Receptor Interaction. Transduction. Response. The Feedbacks. The Cell Cycle. Mitosis. Cyclin-CDKs. Growth Factors. Cancer. They're all here, on this fourth episode of That Bio Girl.

    Credit: In addition to the other resources I use (see the podcast's description for those), I also used information that I quoted in the episode from the following links:

    - https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(98)00076-X/fulltext

    - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3089049/

    - https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Albuterol

    - https://www.acs.org/education/chemmatters/past-issues/archive-2013-2014/caffeine.html

    -https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4113097/#:~:text=Centrosomes%20are%20membrane%2Dfree%20organelles,species%20%5B1%2C2%5D.

    - https://opentextbc.ca/biology/chapter/6-2-the-cell-cycle/

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    58 mins
  • Episode 3: Unit 3, Cellular Energetics
    Feb 2 2025

    Metabolism. ATP. Enzymes. Inhibitors. Activators. Photosynthesis. Cellular Respiration. Fermentation. They're all here, on this third episode of That Bio Girl.


    Credit: In addition to the resources that I always use (see my podcast's official description for those), I also used information from the following links to better explain ATP hydrolysis and the reduction phase of the Calvin Cycle in this episode:

    • -https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/cellular-energetics/cellular-energy/a/atp-and-reaction-coupling

    • -https://bio.libretexts.org/Workbench/General_Biology_I_and_II/02%3A_Unit_II-_The_Cell/2.03%3A_Metabolism/2.3.05%3A_ATP-_Adenosine_Triphosphate#:~:text=The%20phosphorylated%20molecule%20is%20at%20a%20higher%2Denergy,the%20molecule%20to%20undergo%20its%20endergonic%20reaction.

    • -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553175/#:~:text=These%20bonds%20are%20high%20energy,force%20between%20the%20phosphate%20groups.&text=The%20process%20of%20ATP%20hydrolysis,of%20%2D7.3%20cal%2Fmol.

      - https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/cellular-energetics/photosynthesis/a/calvin-cycle#:~:text=Reduction.,carbon%20intermediate%20to%20make%20G3P.

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    57 mins
  • Episode 2: Unit 2, Cell Structure and Function
    Jan 21 2025

    Prokaryotes. Eukaryotes. The Cell. Organelles. Passive Transport. Active Transport. Osmoregulation. Water Potential. They're all here, on this episode of That Bio Girl.


    Credit: In addition to my other citations in the description of this podcast (Barron's, Sara Downs' Getting Down with Science 2020, etc.,), I also directly quoted information from College Board's AP Classroom Daily Video 3 under Unit 2.8 verbatim when discussing water potential.

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    48 mins
  • Episode 1: Unit 1, The Chemistry of Life
    Jan 10 2025

    Water. Carbon. Carbohydrates. Proteins. Nucleic acids. Lipids. They're all here, on this episode of That Bio Girl.


    Credit: The AP Biology content that I use comes from Getting Down with Science (2020) by Sara Downs and some of my personal notes.

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    32 mins