The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome

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  • Опубліковано 9 вер 2012
  • Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we've been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson, Crick and Franklin described the structure of the molecule that makes up our genomes: the DNA double helix. Then, in 2001, scientists wrote down the entire 3-billion letter code contained in the average human genome. Now they're trying to interpret that code; to work out how it's used to make different types of cells and different people. The ENCODE project, as it's called, is the latest chapter in the story of you.
    To read the ENCODE research papers and more, visit www.nature.com/ENCODE
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  • @aglobalnomad
    @aglobalnomad 11 років тому +5

    Thank you for making crack up. The delivery was perfect:
    "Mendel is known as the father of genetics, which, since monks aren't allowed to father much of anything, is both naughty and excellent."

  • @pixietrix68
    @pixietrix68 11 років тому +2

    Love this short movie- so much better than what they showed at primary school when I was younger. I especially like the the emphasis on each genetic mix making you, you, and you. Also doesn't hurt that I think Tim Minchin is amazing!!

  • @Toqwert33
    @Toqwert33 11 років тому

    It feels so refreshing to read comments that do not just consist of profanity and disinformation. And to see fellow human beings with the vocabulary that is beyond black and white. To those here, I thank you.

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid 11 років тому

    I love how you chose the Arecibo message as a symbol for "code" at 2:05 since it doesn't only look cool but also contains the double helix.

  • @DataJack
    @DataJack 11 років тому

    Fantastic! Really well done.

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    That's how I've always conceptualized mutations. It's nice to have a professional support that understanding.

  • @lovelyroroa
    @lovelyroroa 10 років тому +1

    Genes Are Certainly Tricky =) loved it's simplicity, it's beautiful animation and it's variable tone voicing

  • @KittieKitten92
    @KittieKitten92 7 років тому +1

    This is amazing

  • @SkepticalRobot
    @SkepticalRobot 11 років тому

    Awesome job!

  • @Nicobert-Kroken
    @Nicobert-Kroken 11 років тому

    TIMTASTIC!!!

  • @Rettequetette
    @Rettequetette 11 років тому +1

    Yay, Tim Minchin! The perfect voice for a story like this :-)

  •  11 років тому

    Great video. Thank you.

  • @thehungrycannibal
    @thehungrycannibal 11 років тому +2

    Gravity is not a theory... but I understand your point.

  • @arnieestrellado9920
    @arnieestrellado9920 7 років тому +1

    this is a 10! just what did you guys use for animation?

  • @drummerluckydunco
    @drummerluckydunco 11 років тому

    Every time I am in one of these discussions with of these sorts of people, conversation inevitably raises the fact that we can only theorise as to how we came to be. 'That's why they're called theories!' I am passionately told, to which my reply always has been; 'Gravity is also a theory. Are you going to prove that wrong, just float the fuck away?'
    To my surprise, I have yet to find someone who has. They've tried, but it usually ends with them hurting themselves.
    Thumbs up for Mr. Minchin xD

  • @gurdeepkaur2814
    @gurdeepkaur2814 Рік тому

    animation is really good

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    Direct observation isn't the only tool science has to understand the world. We develop theories using experiments on things we can access directly to make predictions about things which we can't. E.g., discovering properties of light here on Earth and using them to see what stars are made of even when they're very far away. We see how things change over more limited time scales, then extrapolate to make predictions about the past. Fossils can provide evidence to support these predictions.

  • @bonetrommer
    @bonetrommer 11 років тому

    This should be used in biology classes

  • @ellafay2012
    @ellafay2012 11 років тому +1

    The way Tim says project :D

  • @OdenKnight
    @OdenKnight 11 років тому +1

    Science! I love it because it works!

  • @redmadhatter03
    @redmadhatter03 11 років тому

    Watson, Crick, and Franklin having tea together? Hah! No doubt Crick and Watson pinched the tea bags from Rosalind's pantry.

  • @MarkChittyUK
    @MarkChittyUK 11 років тому

    liked the addition of the arecibo message into the animation....

  • @dephelis
    @dephelis 11 років тому

    Not to mention that mutations also occur spontaneously in the formation of sperm and eggs. Current research indicates that a 20 year old father passes an average of 25 de novo (fresh) mutations to his children, a mother of the same age passes around 14 de novo mutations via her eggs. There are several known mechanisms for evolution including natural selection, mutation, genetic drift and gene flow (the reason around 9% of our genome has viral origins).

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    Genetic drift is a change in allele frequency due to random sampling. These are not mutations, but anomalies that are a result of the procreation process functioning normally. Differing environmental pressures on the same species will favor differing traits, causing a divergence in different populations of the same species. Over time these differences become more pronounced. You may want to search "speciation" on wikipedia for more/detailed information. Running out of room here. That help?

  • @luanneoneill
    @luanneoneill 11 років тому

    Tim Minchin! Cool stuff. Science is awesome.

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    ~Mutations -> ~Evolution => Evolution -> Mutations. I.e., mutations are necessary for evolution. I'm actually not sure if that's exactly true. I know mutations are important and that they do a lot, but there are other means by which species change over time. Evolution is testable, it has been tested, and it has been found solid. I have no room to argue why here, so I refer you to AronRa's series "Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism" here on UA-cam. Maybe a bit inflammatory, but educational.

  • @fernandovelazquezvelasco2764
    @fernandovelazquezvelasco2764 11 років тому +1

    you just gained a subscriber :)

  • @dephelis
    @dephelis 11 років тому

    I'm a former microbiologist but there have been a lot of advances since I left the lab. Mutation isn't the sole element of evolution and by itself wouldn't necessarily result in speciation. Mutations are just as likely to be detrimental to an organism as giving it any advantage. Evolution and speciation are generally slow processes involving multiple mechanisms. I'd consider mutation to be the wild card process occasionally throwing a new flaw or benefit into the pot.

  • @WolffStaedtler
    @WolffStaedtler 11 років тому

    Educational cartoons are a lot better than they used to be.

  • @ebonybeach
    @ebonybeach 11 років тому

    Lovely video. The one thing you missed out is that genes code for proteins, and nearly everything in the body is made from proteins. Without understanding this, I think it is really difficult for the average person to really understand how genetics work and why genome projects are so important. Proteins make up thousands of components of every cell, so when you inherit faulty genes or develop a genetic mutation, a faulty protein (or sometimes no protein at all) is made --> disease, cancer etc.

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    The mutations themselves are probably best described as occurring randomly, but you mentioned a random "force" that created everything from nothing. I interpreted that as talking about the process of evolution, which is not random. Natural selection favors certain things over others for particular reasons, so only forms which meet the minimum requirements to survive will make it. This is not a description of a random process.

  • @cyberpup1000
    @cyberpup1000 11 років тому

    Its a keeper!

  • @gillianbarth5927
    @gillianbarth5927 8 років тому +1

    You should do something with CrashCourse!

  • @mjduffy11
    @mjduffy11 4 роки тому

    Just got here having read ‘a brief history of everyone who ever lived’ by Adam Rutherford 🤙🤘🖤

  • @OldInjury
    @OldInjury 11 років тому

    Just as long as insurance companies aren't allowed to use the info to set pricing and discriminate. Also political groups should never gain access to personal genome data to use against individuals. DNA should be more protected than your SSN.

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    Well, to be fair this wasn't really a discussion. This guy was just trolling, and I was taking the opportunity to practice formulating arguments. Keeping your points straight and focused while maintaining a degree of introspection is hard work when the other person is trying to provoke, derail, and misrepresent you.

  •  11 років тому +2

    Tim Minchin rocks!

  • @elieweisselberger426
    @elieweisselberger426 3 роки тому +2

    I have to write a 2000 words essay on this. May god help me

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    You seem to know a bit about what we're talking about here. What do you think would have happened if mutation never happened? Would everything have died, or maybe evolution still could have happened, but more slowly?

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    No one is suggesting that trees came from some kind of fish. I was talking about genetic drift as an example of how species change over time without need for mutations. It's through a combination of many different change mechanisms and processes over enormous time periods with millions of generations of organisms that we see the kinds of dramatic changes that seem so peculiar today. But even so, as we reach farther back it becomes less clear. Evolution only answers some questions about life.

  • @jellywizard
    @jellywizard 11 років тому

    Interesting....

  • @coyotecut
    @coyotecut 11 років тому

    I think it's funny that "Encode" is a ginormous robot superhero.

  • @curtandoscar
    @curtandoscar 11 років тому

    I love you, Tim Minchin.

  • @sunsetwinds
    @sunsetwinds 11 років тому

    'Gravity is also a theory. Are you going to prove that wrong, just float the fuck away?' You are wonderful. Bahahahahahahahaha

  • @sharpmove007
    @sharpmove007 11 років тому +1

    ENCODE science
    Not never but now!!

  • @frostblade42
    @frostblade42 11 років тому

    At least one of the dislikes is Phil Daoust.

  • @grvlpts
    @grvlpts 11 років тому +1

    Rebuke for neglecting to mention Maurice Wilkins, who actually also won the Nobel Prize. Let's not rewrite history.

  • @Gongasoso
    @Gongasoso 11 років тому

    yeah, it's in the credits

  • @SympatheticMonster
    @SympatheticMonster 11 років тому

    How?

  • @dephelis
    @dephelis 11 років тому

    One thing is for certain, the classic Darwinian "Tree of Life" is a horribly outdated concept. It's actually more of dense thicket with stems growing out of a central root and dividing but also sometimes merging back into other stems to make an interconnected web.

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    You may not have noticed, but you "reply" (in the way that connects your comment to theirs) by clicking the button beside the "thumbs up/down" buttons. If you don't they won't be notified and probably won't see it. Just letting you know!

  • @spawnofnamaah
    @spawnofnamaah 11 років тому

    wish they taught me biology in school this way :-p would have been much more interesting!

  • @WithoutException
    @WithoutException 11 років тому +1

    Haven't you heard? It actually works!!! They're doing in hospitals all over the world!!!

  • @DavidDespain1
    @DavidDespain1 11 років тому

    cool

  • @UniversalOwl
    @UniversalOwl 11 років тому

    I love myself

  • @BrionyGunson
    @BrionyGunson 11 років тому +1

    I sometime wish these people really could "float the fuck away"....

  • @LauuraDC
    @LauuraDC 11 років тому

    That's so cute :)

  • @TheAVinc33
    @TheAVinc33 11 років тому

    Guess who gave them access[Hint:He's not in the video]. :D

  • @jconkin3
    @jconkin3 11 років тому

    Is this Canadian?

  • @ThePianist2396
    @ThePianist2396 11 років тому

    TIM MINCHIN

  • @lolfuxyeah
    @lolfuxyeah 11 років тому

    Isn't he? Told me I couldn't get into his "club" cause I wore silk and cotton at the same time.

  • @Hariukin
    @Hariukin 11 років тому

    which one of the thousand interpreted copies and "mutations" of the collection of stories, copied from even older stories and finally picked by purpose, tales of unproven origin and doubtfull translation should i read?

  • @AnotherVoiceless
    @AnotherVoiceless 11 років тому

    @enginekid88
    Of course it was lightning strikes in a puddle, what other god but zues himself could create this "complex" (not to throw around words or act like their not relative) rna and dna and guide life along its path. Well zues or thor, they both use lightning.

  • @Roughneck8
    @Roughneck8 11 років тому

    Illumina...really? You want to attach a name like that to subject matter like this? Just asking for trouble.

  • @SympatheticMonster
    @SympatheticMonster 11 років тому

    So it presents the possibilities that project ENCODE offers, that's right? Isn't this kind of stuff what scientists have to say in order to get funding for such projects? I mean, why do you think this project is being funded? For the sheer education? That's not how science works nowadays, unless the research has potential to bear juicy fruits as a result, no one will bother to fund these projects.

  • @meamcatnm
    @meamcatnm 10 років тому

    Hmmm why was this in my Favorites :/

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    Ok then, but keep in mind AronRa for more information about all this. Take care.

  • @dylz
    @dylz 11 років тому

    i'd say fewer people "include" maurice wilkins or the others involved than rosalind franklin.

  • @IXPrometheusXI
    @IXPrometheusXI 11 років тому

    It hasn't stopped, it's not random, and it's misleading to say "everything from nothing." The origin of life is a completely separate question from that of how species evolve and this video isn't really about either (though I guess it's more about the latter). This is about the genetics of living people, the results can be (and often have been) tested and found reliable, and the effects on medicine have bettered many lives. Don't be so hostile of science, or at least criticize the right thing.

  • @Gongasoso
    @Gongasoso 11 років тому

    this is Minchin speaking, right?

  • @murdocha
    @murdocha 11 років тому

    We wish!

  • @agentsteve007
    @agentsteve007 11 років тому

    probably

  • @AnotherVoiceless
    @AnotherVoiceless 11 років тому

    On a computer yes, on my smartphone, there is bo button.

  • @MonkofAntioch549
    @MonkofAntioch549 11 років тому +1

    but they forgot Hitler. He made huge strides in genetics, but for SOME reason they always leave him out when listing the fathers of the field

  • @toughsuga2
    @toughsuga2 11 років тому

    Animation was cute, I guess

  • @jungchoigt
    @jungchoigt 11 років тому +1

    Oversimplified to the point that it doesn't really inform, and potentially misleads.

  • @frostblade42
    @frostblade42 11 років тому

    .....aaaannd like.

  • @calladus
    @calladus 11 років тому

    That's abiogenesis. What the hell does that have to do with evolution?

  • @laladieladada
    @laladieladada 11 років тому

    instead of making conclusions whitout evidence.
    maybe you want to read up a bit about evolution and natural selection.
    it will make you look less stupid next time.
    here is a short overview of what is out there:
    1-big bang - starts of the universe
    2-cosmological timeline - how other things then pure energy came to existence and transformed the universe to how we know it.
    3-abiogenesis - start of life
    4-evolution - how already existing life transformed in other lifeforms.

  • @cccchuq
    @cccchuq 11 років тому

    Illumani......hmmmm

  • @SympatheticMonster
    @SympatheticMonster 11 років тому

    P.s. That's why NASA's funding is shrinking into oblivion.

  • @maximilian8959
    @maximilian8959 5 років тому +2

    Come, let us reason. How likely is it that "billions of years" can produce everything in the Universe. How can time be our Creator when it's just a property of the Universe, not the Author of it.

  • @lolfuxyeah
    @lolfuxyeah 11 років тому +1

    Have you met God?

  • @Hitman27ful
    @Hitman27ful 11 років тому

    The further away we get from God the closer he gets to coming back.

    • @tv10morehead
      @tv10morehead 4 роки тому

      BUt that is a return in Judgment eh ? Like in 70AD where not one stone was left upon another & the stars fell from the sky and sun no longer shines on that world. Game over again ? That would be a 3rd coming then. Research audience relevance for who was being spoken to and when for time statements to have meaning then verses now.

  • @djancak
    @djancak 11 років тому +1

    not really an inspiring video at all.

  • @HConstantine
    @HConstantine 8 років тому

    Shouldn't you have said that Encode is a bunch of bullshit? You know, the truth?

  • @WesleyRiot
    @WesleyRiot 11 років тому

    did you just say "evolution religion"? lmfao

  • @calladus
    @calladus 11 років тому

    What the heck are you talking about? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever!