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What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...become two new ones with identical genetic material, the DNA in each chromosome must undergo a process in which an identical copy is made. As noted above, Watson and Crick postulated that DNA base-pairing provides a mechanism by which the DNA might be copied (see Figure 5). This DNA copying mechanism, usually referred to as DNA replication, is the process we consider...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...become deer, cows with human feelings and humans who are turned into gods. Study note: a note on dates You will notice that this course uses the abbreviations ‘BCE’ and ‘CE’ when dating events, texts and objects. These abbreviations stand for ‘Before the Common Era’ and ‘Common Era’. You may be familiar with an alternative method of referring to dates as...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...becomes a major industry you’re finding that people who perhaps have automotive interests who have better insights on how to develop braking systems are bringing things across from other sectors into the wind sector. That is not going to produce radical reductions in costs, but you’re going to come down the cost curve gradually, certainly with wind, and in some parts...
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Audio 5 mins
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...become a geographer fit for the twenty-first century. The six videos that make up this field trip have been carefully produced to ensure that the contributors you hear and see speak directly to the issues of the climate crisis; their views, in other words, are not mediated by a narrator. Such directness not only adds an urgency to the debate around the climate crisis, but...
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Article 5 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...become expert readers, we may begin to see some flaws in the workmanship or in the coherence of the design itself. But as beginning students our first task is to become aware of the pattern of meanings which can be discerned in the novel we are studying. It is only with practice and experience that we shall begin to see that the flood of books we call novels have features...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...student using a fluorescence microscope in The Open University’s laboratories...Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy: 1.1 Why do we need microscopy? - Almost all cells are too small to be seen with the naked eye, so the study of cellular structure only began with the development of lenses and microscopes that could magnify cells many hundreds of times. A...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...OU and Radio 4. All our interviewees in this series are being asked the same first question which is: when did you first get interested in energy? NS: I’d been working on economics and development all my professional life, starting in the late sixties, so energy in relation to development has always been an important subject for me, but focussing on energy is really...
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Audio 5 mins
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...become part of everyday life. But how can interactions be designed to best meet their purpose and offer good user experience? This free course, An introduction to interaction design, explores this topic. You will learn: what interaction design is; the importance of user-centred design - with its goals and principles; how interaction design focuses on the characteristics...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs