A Brief Introduction to Genetics

This is short but sweet but if anyone has ever asked what genetics is exactly and you have found yourself floundering, then look no further.  This short animated film by David Murawsky explores the history of genetics and the underlying concepts providing the knowledge that today’s research is based upon.

It is thorough too – it goes from the father of genetic, Gregor Mendel up to concepts such as genetic code and DNA.  There is also a look at the current methods that are used to study genetics, the vaguely scary sounding genomics and bioinformatics.

All wrapped up in some very impressive animation.  Nice.

18 Things You Should Know About Genetics

Back in March we featured a wonderful animation by David Murawsky entitled A Brief Introduction to Genetics – which was awesome. Well, we are very pleased to tell you that he has gone one further and created this gem – 18 Things You Should Know About Genetics.

Helped out by some wonderful animation and a great voice over by Sarah Henriques, this film presents fundamental background information about genetics, as well as offering some quirky but interesting facts about DNA, genes and genetics.

It was created to be an upbeat, fun educational short film to initiate and draw interest to this sometimes daunting and seemingly complex subject matter.  I wish we had had this sort of educational film when I was at school!