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Understanding the Importance of Cells

[Music] tonight on Cell Block H hi folks what I'm here to do today is sell sell do not adjust your television what you are about to witness is something so magnificent that it can only be brought to you by life and life can only be brought to you by cells hey this is about cells that's great that's what today's show is about oh hold on this is today's show who I love science Bill the science guy build n the Science Guy Bild the science gu science Rules build the inertia is a property of matter Science Guy T 7 Seconds the Science Guy did you know that all the plants and animals in the world are made of cells tiny compartments of life that make up all living things like you and me and and rabbits oh by the way do you know how you catch a rabbit like will you lie in the grass uhhuh and make noises like a carrot yeah my sister told me that joke that's a good one isn't it Peter I'm ined anyway animals have all different kinds of cells that do all different kinds of jobs like a rabbit will have fur making cells and eye cells and nose cells and ear cells H I guess rabbits have a lot of ear cells hey and carrots are made of cells too I guess carrots have a lot of carrot cells now you and I are a lot more like a rabbit than a carrot because we're made of animal cells now what do cells look like well you're looking at me and I made of cells whenever you look in a mirror you're looking at you and you're made of cells uh snakes are made of cells and plants and trees are made of cells in fact this building is being held up by cells see this wooden pillar it's cut from a tree that was made of cells now uh you and I have about 100 trillion cells in us just think how many cells are in this tree just think how many cells are in something as big as this whale whoa these are uh blood cells see different cells have different jobs sure we got bone cells and cheek cells and lung cells and heart cells and liver cells stomach cells large intestine cells small intestine cells the list goes on I'm trying to sell you on the idea of cells see get that are you buying it see that sell on cells you with me there that that's comedy cells are just like bricks that's right they're piled up in big structures like a brick wall except there's a difference between cells and Bricks cells are alive and they reproduce they make new cells of course some cells are dying off but new cells come along all the time suppose you're in a situation where the bricks were piling up in other words more cells were being born than were dying off then your brick wall would be getting bigger and bigger it would be growing just like you you're growing so I'm exhausted bricks more and more cells see cells are just like bricks only [Music] different it is clear that the amoeba is not just a blob of jelly hey I want to watch the ballet well I want to watching Direction on touching the why not do both tonight on very small performances amiibo Lake in store for us this evening the protoplasmic Pod deer pseudopod pirouettes and the dance of the endoplasmic reticulum cool nice [Music] nuul alive or not a happy smiley family alive or not an active volcano alive or not a scrumptious piece of spongecake yummy alive or not a sea sponge alive or not this has been another alive or not all cells look something like this they've got a nucleus surrounded by cytoplasm with mitochondria and vacuoles in it and then a cell membrane this is an animal cell this is a plant cell same deal nucleus cytoplasm m mondria and vacuoles chloroplast a plasma membrane and then cell walls plants animals SS I love you're looking at ey cells nose cells and skin cells all moving with muscle cells millions of them different kinds of cells have different [Music] jobs consider the phone if you had to describe a room to someone what would you say you say well a room's got walls and maybe a door and a window and a floor maybe some furniture we see a cell is a lot like a room instead of walls plant cells have cell walls animal cells have cell membranes that's from an old word that means thin skin same idea thank you now in a room you might find a table with some papers where you do your homework in a Cell you might find a nucleus that controls the cell does the cell's paperwork in a room you might find a fireplace which provides heat keeps it warm energy in a Cell you might find mitochondria which power the cell same idea see there's all different kinds of rooms in a house you know there's a bathroom a living room a dining room a library a wreck room a basement well in you and me you might find uh bone cells muscle cells brain cells skin cells all different kinds of cells that do different jobs but they're all cells and they move uh eat drink reproduce they're alive it's a good thing too cuz if they weren't uh we wouldn't be either well thank you for joining me on consider the following oh I'm starving using brain cells takes a lot of energy let's see here we have yogurt sour cream cheese bread sourkraut pickles soy sauce and tofu it's all cells not is this stuff made of cells it's made from cells and take a look yogurt and cheese are made from milk using bacteria and mold cells let's keep going here yeast cells make bread rice uh bacteria cells make cabbage into sour Crow and cucumbers into pickles mold cells turn soy beans into soy sauce and tofu all looks so good oh look a refreshing beverage just loaded with fruit cells man cells oh I better close this [Music] door Community Access Channel 27 the Endo reticulum School of Performing [Applause] Arts this is Sherman's biology class proudly presents the cell a [Applause] [Music] musical one small single cell is living it eats and grows and moves and it under mitosis that's how one becomes two outside the cell is a membrane that look things through at trli s they make up me and you many shapes Andes and what you realiz [Applause] are I'm Kate Whitlock and that is a caterpillar and together we work on metamorphosis and that means that I look at how does a caterpillar become a butterfly and what happens to the cells when I do that so each cell has genes in it right and it's kind of like a road map for the cell it tells it what to do and where to go all right because these cells just go ahead and do this they go from making a larva to a pey to an adult and it's their their genes inside these cells that are saying okay well I'm going to become a wing and you're going to become a leg oh weird ew oh seriously no they don't hurt they're really cute it's it's an amazing thing to see an animal go from this this this squirmy little worm this caterpillar into into a moth I know it it just feels weird i' have to get used to touching that's the baby and then then the second larvel in Star third fourth and fifth all of us are made up of cells right and we have different types of cells you have muscle cells and you have skin cells well inside here they kind of sit in here and they reorganize all of their cells so can you see that they're actually doing this this change and steps there we [Music] go yeah pretty exciting huh the following is another alive or not a farm fresh potato alive or not M potato chips alive or not freshly washed gym socks alive or not this has been another alive or not skin is your body's fastest growing organ now skin not only covers this on the outside skin cells line your mouth your nose blood vessels your lungs your stomach and your intestine now we shed millions of skin cells every day but Millions more are made to replace them it's like millions of birthdays every day [Music] great this is a mom and this is a dad who had the strangest baby who has ever been a healthy boy was their only wish but instead they got a baby in a p dish he's John the one boy mommy's and joy daddy's little trooper and his only hope is one day to be seen without a microscope and Al the prosis is not foris or arms legs or P or toes are still coming up roses for Johnny the one boy [Applause] I wish I was a one so boy Dad no I don't think you do son sure I do no I don't think so Richie you see there's no such thing as a one-celled boy is that true mom mhm real boys are made from a pair of gametes that fused into a zygote and then underwent mitotic division resulting in a multicellular organism of the male Jenza no no that's not true no it's not true ever had someone say to you it's in your jeans they weren't talking about your pants h no we meant you were born that way it's in your jeans now jeans tell yourselves what to do do like you you're a stomach cell you you're a brain cell you you're going to have brown eyes and a big nose now genes are made of DNA deoxy ribonucleic acid deoxy ribonucleic acid what deoxy ribonucleic acid okay and DNA molecules are very long molecules that have chemicals on them in a sequence in a special order now parts of DNA molecules are what we call genes now DNA molecules are packed in your cells in something called chromosomes now humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes you get 23 from your mom and 23 from your dad that's uh um 46 46 now all plant and animal cells have chromosomes they have different numbers depending on which plant or animal you're dealing with DNA is pretty cool when you think about it in fact thinking's in your genes [Music] too ah what size fits all I'm protecting my coth cuz it cost a lot of money just in case you didn't know what egg is itself itself a big one too when you about to catch it don't catch it right here just let it drop a little bit that way the pressure won't come down and break these are one SED eggs we're protecting ourselves from these cuz we're going to be throwing them and we don't want to get hit by them cuz if it gets dirty my on going kill don't cat overhead oh stop it eggs you know you know cells in our skin right they so small that you got to see them in the [Music] microscope it's cool that you can see a egg a cell egg let's go back let's go back I love Sals D is is that true is there really a one C boy I'm afraid if your mother says there isn't then there [Music] isn't seeds have cells that are all dread out for a seed to make a plant it needs water so let's give it to him you can use any kind of seeds for this you got RW sunflower seeds bird seeds even nine bean soup mix pour some water into a bowl full of cotton balls not enough to drown the seeds just enough to keep them wet okay then add your seeds over the next few days The Siege will soak up the water and get bigger then they'll grow baby plants like these I started a few days ago they're alive do you know what this is It's the letter O but it's also enough room for 4 million red blood cells 4 million red blood cells right there now why do we call them red blood cell well cuz they're red now why are they red well red blood cells have a protein in them called hemoglobin which has iron in them and when red blood cells are carrying oxygen they turn red because of the iron it's the same way these iron nails turn Rusty red when they're carrying oxygen when they rust now not all blood cells are red some of them are white there about a thousand red blood cells for every white blood cell and white blood cells are the thing that attack viruses and bacteria to keep us from getting sick of course this isn't really a white blood cell it it's a pingpong ball but these are really rusty nails and they're all over the floor well you know that's why they tell you no shirt no shoes no service oh man and I got one of my socks oh ouch oh ready to party then get a balloon carefully pour a little vanilla extract into it like this then blow it up and tie it off shake the balloon to get the vanilla slashed [Music] around now smell it do you smell any of the vanilla you do because the vanilla molecules are so small they can fit right between the rubber molecules especially when the balloon is stretched thin and this is the way cells exchange chemicals with other cells right through the cell membrane it's called osmosis do you know what this is It's a dot but it's a DOT that's about as big as oh 500 cells now 500 cells that's nothing because in your body you have trillions and trillions of cells oh yeah you got skin cells and bone cells and muscle cells and brain cells and stomach cells cells that make fingernails and immune cells and sex cells and nerve cells youan know fact you know you have a lot of nerve what fact they have a lot of nerve cells yeah nerve cells are the only cells that we never replaced you know the same cells we're born with I mean it's almost more cells than you can count it's almost more cells than you can keep track of I mean just cell after cell sell you counting [Music] party golden sponge cake creamy filling this is made with some living things and some non-living [Music] things but does that mean it's alive or not what do you [Music] think [Applause] living cells are in your brain living things are in your veins living cells run through your bones they contain all your chromosomes living cells have DNA living cells die every day animal problem and pler two sales make up me and you [Music] o let [Applause] go living cells are specialized they are what make things alive living Sals have different jobs in cows and corn on the [Music] cob yeah let me [Music] [Applause] look at all these cells trillions and trillions of them it's truly amazing we start with one cell and we end up like this well if you'll excuse me I've got some mitochondria to monitor next time I see you I'll be seeing yourselves produced in association with the national Science Foundation is that true mom mhm real boys are made from a pair of gamits that are fused into z a sorry real boys are made from a pair of gametes which that fuse into can we start I'm sorry a mitotic division of the multi-cellular organism that uh a zygote and then underwent a mitotic division resulting in a multicellular organism of the male gender no that's not true that fused into a zyo and then underwent mitotic division resulting in a multicellular organism of the male gender oh [Music] mom alive or not all cells look something like this they've got a nucleus surrounded by cytoplasm with mitochondria and vacuoles in it and then a cell membrane now this is an animal cell this is a plant cell same deal nucleus cytoplasm mitochondria and vacuoles chloroplast a plasma membrane and then cell walls plants animals signs I love you're looking at ey cells nose cells and skin cells all moving with muscle cells millions of them different kinds of cells have different jobs W consider the phone if you had to describe a room to someone what would you say you say well a room's got walls and maybe a door and a window and a flooor maybe some furniture you see a cell is a lot like a room instead of walls plant cells have cell walls animal cells have cell membranes that's from an old word that means thin skin same idea thank you now in a room you might find a table with some papers where you do your homework in a Cell you might find a nucleus that controls the cell does the cell's paperwork in a room you might find a fireplace which provides heat keeps it warm energy in a Cell you might find mitochondria which power the cell same idea see there's all different kinds of rooms in a house you know there's a bathroom a living room a dining room a library a wreck room a basement well and you and me you might find uh bone cells muscle cells brain cells skin cells all different kinds of cells that do different jobs but they're all cells and they move uh eat drink reproduce they're alive it's a good thing too because if they weren't uh we wouldn't be either well thank you for joining me on consider the following oh I'm starving using brain cells takes a lot of energy let's see here we have yogurt sour cream cheese bread sauerkraut pickles soy sauce and tofu it's all cells not is this stuff made of cells it's made from cells and take a look yogurt and cheese are made from milk using bacteria and mold cells let's keep going here ye cells make bread rice uh bacteria cells make cabbage into sauerkraut and cucumbers into pickles mold cells turn soy beans into soy sauce and tofu that look so good oh look a refreshing beverage just loaded with fruit cells oh man [Music] cells oh I better close this door Community Access Channel 27 the Endo reticulum School of Performing [Applause] Arts this is Sherman's biology but new cells come along all the time suppose you in a situation where the bricks were piling up in other words more cells were being born and were dying off then your brick wall would be getting bigger and bigger it would be growing just like you you're growing so I'm exhausted bricks more and more cells see cells are just like bricks only [Music] different it is clear that the amoeba is not just a blob of jelly hey I want to watch the ballet well I want to watch theang Direction on touching the why not do both tonight on very small performances amiibo Lake in store for us this evening the protoplasmic Pod deer pseudopod pirouettes and the dance of the endoplasmic reticulum cool nice nucular [Music] alive or not a happy smiley family alive or not an active volcano alive or not a scrumptious piece of spongecake yummy alive or not a sea sponge alive or not this has been another and ear cells H I guess rabbits have a lot of ear cells hey and carrots are made of cells too I guess carrots have a lot of carrot cells now you and I are a lot more like a rabbit than a carrot than because we're made of animal cells now what do cells look like well you're looking at me and I'm made of cells whenever you look in a mirror you're looking at you and you're made of cells uh snakes are made of cells and and plants and trees are made of cells in fact this building is being held up by cells see this wooden pillar it's cut from a tree that was made of cells now uh you and I have about 100 trillion cells in us just think how many cells were in this tree just think how many cells are in something as big as this whale whoa these are uh blood cells see different cells have different jobs sure we got bone cells and cheek cells and lung cells and heart cells liver cells stomach cells large intestine cells small intestine cells the list goes on I'm trying to sell you on the idea of cells see get that are you buying it see that sell on cells you with me there that that's [Music] comedy cells are just like bricks that's right they're piled up in big structures like a brick brick wall except there's a difference between cells and Bricks cells are alive and they reproduce they make new cells of course some cells are dying off tonight on Cell Block H hi folks what I'm here to do today is sell sell do not adjust your television what you are about to witness is something so magnificent that it can only be brought to you by life and life can only be brought to you by cells hey this is about cells that's great that's what today's show is about oh hold on this is today's show W hi love science Bill n the Science Guy Bild n the Science Guy bill bill bill build build build build by the science gu science Rules science inertia is a property of matter the science T seconds science did you know that all the plants and animals in the world are made of cells tiny compartment ments of life that make up all living things like you and me and and rabbits oh by the way do you know how you catch a rabbit like will you lie in the grass and make noises like a carrot yeah my sister told me that joke that's a good one isn't it Peter I'm insulted anyway animals have all different kinds of cells that do all different kinds of jobs like a rabbit will have fur making cells and eye cells and nose cells