It's two breeding cycles for maize.

Like everyone else, we grew maize.

It's got germ.

It's a germ cell.

from a discharged living germ

This is a germ cell.

Ethiopian maize farmers produced two years of bumper harvest.

So let me draw a germ cell.

As an early form of germ warfare.

So in a male, you have some germ cells, so some of these cells turn into germ cells.

led to an 80 percent collapse in maize prices in the country.

So let's say those are the germ cells.

So it could go into a germ cell.

Since it's so pluripotent, it can become germ plasm.

And these germ cells, they're the product of mitosis.

The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize.

He created him from a living germ. He determined his fate

And the germ cells exist as part of your reproductive organs.

And meiosis is essentially what a germ cell undergoes to produce gametes.

Well, we heard that one too, but Pioneer Germ Fighters totally rules.

But what's special about a germ cell is it has the potential, one, it can either continue to do mitosis and produce more germ cells that are identical to it, so it could produce two germ cells that are identical to it, or it can undergo meiosis.

which was then turned into a living germ and placed in safe depository.

So if you saw them contract a germ or a piece of information, you would know that, soon enough, everybody was about to contract this germ or this piece of information.

Who would you rather be if a deadly germ was spreading through the network?

And the germ cells, we've learned already, these are the ones that produce gametes.

But you could imagine, once you've infected a germ cell, once you become part of a germ cell's DNA, then I'm passing on that viral DNA to my son or my daughter.

In Ethiopia, for example, the variation in maize prices from year to year is as much as 50 percent annually.

But the deadliest killer of them all is still the lowly germ, quiet and unspectacular.

But it doesn't have to just infect somatic cells, it could infect a germ cell.

The next three biscuits are the foods that we decide to feed to livestock, the maize, the wheat and the soya.

By 2030, if the maize, or corn, varieties, which is the dominant crop 50 percent of the nutrition in Southern Africa are still in the field in 2030, we'll have a 30 percent decrease in production of maize because of the climate change already in 2030.

We couldn't have a germ theory of disease before we invented the microscope to see them.

But this small village, germ of something more, why did it fail while Concord keeps its ground?

Meiosis occurs in the germ cells and it's used essentially to produce gametes to facilitate sexual reproduction.

We started up here with a diploid germ cell, and we went through two stages of division.

So this is the great majority of your cells, and this is opposed to your germ cells.

then We made him into a drop of life germ, then We placed it in a safe depository,

It could undergo mitosis to produce more germ cells, but we'll talk about how it produces the gametes.

This is another case where a theoretical paradigm in biology really worked was the germ theory of disease.

Ethiopia's agricultural market is 30 percent higher than South Africa's grain production, and, in fact, Ethiopia is the second largest maize producer in Africa.

So if you have mutations in your germ cells, or during the process of meiosis, you have essentially recombination of

The worst possibility is that a very simple germ, like staph, for which we have one antibiotic that still works, mutates.

I don't say let's go back to the Copper Canyons and live on corn and maize, which is the Tarahumara's preferred diet, but maybe there's somewhere in between.

So if I start off with a diploid cell, and that's my diploid cell right there, this would be a germ cell.

The traits that will be passed on or the changes that will be passed on are those that occur in the germ cells.