Surprises in Your Genes
What makes an embryo-- basically a tiny ball of cells-- grow into a whale, or a fly, or a human?
December 20, 20115m 28s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (pbs.org) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
In order to develop from an embryo, animals as different as fruit flies and humans call on a nearly identical set of genes. But how does this one common genetic toolkit create so many different species? It turns out that it's not the genes you have-- it's how you use them.
Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interviews by John Rubin.
NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.
To learn more, go to pbs.org/nova/evolution
Topics
science NOVA PBS Evo Devo evolution development genes switches DNA