About Professor Sykes

Video clips

View video clips from the video conference which took place on Monday, 17 November 2003.

Clip 1

The basics of DNA

Duration: 1:05

Clip 2

What is Mitochondrial DNA?

Duration: 1:02

Clip 3

M-DNA and the y chromosome

Duration: 2:06

Clip 4

DNA mutation and diseases

Duration: 1:54

Clip 5

Comparing DNA sequences between our cells and primitive organisms

Duration: 1:37

Clip 6

Ancestral descent

Duration: 1:36

Clip 7

How M-DNA can connect humans back to just one African woman

Duration: 1:47

Clip 8

Our common ancestors

Duration: 2:15

Clip 9

Tracing our genes back to our ancestors

Duration: 1:36

Clip 10

Embryonigical development

Duration: 2:00

Clip 11

The demise of the y chromosome

Duration: 2:26

Clip 12

The effect of environmental pollutants on the y chromosome

Duration: 1:50

Clip 13

The number of genes on the y chromosome

Duration: 1:02

Clip 14

Tracing back the y chromosome to history's unsavoury characters

Duration: 1:09