1996
Cycles of Life: Exploring Biology is an educational TV series that was produced by Coast Learning Systems in 1996. It consisted of 26 episodes that covered various topics of biology, from cell division, to organ systems, to the environment. It aired on KOCE (and presumably other affiliated PBS stations as well) from 1996 until 2010.
Storyline
TV Show Intro
Sound Effects Used
The show did not use sound effects very often, but when it did, it mainly took them from the Series 1000 Sound Effects Library and Series 2000 Sound Effects Library.
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, ACCENT - SHORT ELECTRONIC ACCENT, MUSIC 01 (Heard once in "Animal Structure".)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, ACCENT - SHORT ELECTRONIC ACCENT, MUSIC 02 (Heard once in "Animal Structure".)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, ACCENT - SLIDING STEADY TONE: LOW TO HIGH PITCH (Heard once in "Animal Structure".)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, ACCENT - WARBLE TONE: BUZZ TONE (Heard once in "Animal Structure".)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, ALARM - TONE: TWO PITCHES, MEDIUM AND HIGH, SIREN (Heard once in "Animal Structure".)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, BEEPS - BOUNCING BEEPS INTO ECHO 03 (A small portion is heard once in "Animal Structure".)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, COSMIC - STING, MUSIC, SPACE 03 (Heard once in "DNA: Blueprint of Life".)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, DESCENT - FALLING SCALE, MUSIC, SPACE 02 (Heard once in "DNA: Blueprint of Life" when the enzyme unwinds the DNA strand.)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, WAVE - ASCENDING AND DESCENDING, SPACE 01 (Heard once in "DNA: Blueprint of Life" and "Animal Structure".)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRONIC, WAVE - ASCENDING AND DESCENDING, SPACE 02 (Heard once in "DNA: Blueprint of Life" and "Animal Structure".)
- Sound Ideas, FROG, BULLFROG - CROAKING, ANIMAL, AMPHIBIAN 02 (Heard once in "Secrets of the Cell".)
- Sound Ideas, HOSPITAL - HEART MONITOR: MONITORING, CONSTANT BEEPS (Heard once in "Circulation: A River of Life".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - BUBBLES, BUBBLING SLOW, ELECTRONIC (Single bubble; heard once in "Secrets of the Cell".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - DOUBLE STAB, ELECTRONIC (Heard once in "Secrets of the Cell".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - FADE IN, ELECTRONIC
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - LASER SHOT, ELECTRONIC 03 (Heard 9 times in "The Power of Metabolism".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - MYSTERY SPACE CHIMES, ELECTRONIC 01 (Last two chimes heard often in "Secrets of the Cell".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - SPACE CHIME, SEVERAL HITS, ELECTRONIC 01
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - SPACE FADE, ELECTRONIC 01 (Heard once in a low pitch in "The Power of Metabolism".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - SPACE FIZZLE, PAN BY, ELECTRONIC 02 (Heard once in "Secrets of the Cell".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - SPACE HORN, ELECTRONIC, MUSIC 01 (Heard twice in a normal pitch in "Secrets of the Cell" and twice in a high pitch in "Digestion and Fluid Balance".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - SPACE HORN, ELECTRONIC, MUSIC 03 (Heard once in "The Power of Metabolism".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - SPACE STAB, ELECTRONIC 01 (Heard once in "Secrets of the Cell".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE - WARBLE TONE, LOW, ELECTRONIC (Heard once in "The Power of Metabolism".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE, WHOOSH - LEFT TO RIGHT TO LEFT, ELECTRONIC 01 (Heard once in "The Power of Metabolism".)
- Sound Ideas, SPACE, WHOOSH - SPACE SWOOSH, SHORT, ELECTRONIC 01
Other Audio Used
- De Wolfe Music ("Annual Report - Main Theme" and "Morning Mist 1" are heard in Generations: Mitosis and Meiosis. These are the only uses of production music in the entire series.)