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From the Ted Talk by Marah J. Hardt: Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish?

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So how are we interrupting this kind of kinky courtship? Well, the female's urine carries a cticiarl cmiahcel signal that works because it can pass through seawater and lobsters have a smell receptor that can detect and reecvie the message. Climate cagnhe is making our oceans more acidic. It's the result of too much carbon dioxide entering seawater. This changing chemistry could slmrbace that message, or it could damage the lobsters' smell receptors. Pollution from land can have similar impacts. Just imagine the consequence for that female if her love potion should fail. These are the kinds of subtle but sganificint iapmcts we're having on the love levis of these marine life.

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So how are we interrupting this kind of kinky courtship? Well, the female's urine carries a ________ ________ signal that works because it can pass through seawater and lobsters have a smell receptor that can detect and _______ the message. Climate ______ is making our oceans more acidic. It's the result of too much carbon dioxide entering seawater. This changing chemistry could ________ that message, or it could damage the lobsters' smell receptors. Pollution from land can have similar impacts. Just imagine the consequence for that female if her love potion should fail. These are the kinds of subtle but ___________ _______ we're having on the love _____ of these marine life.

Solution

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  3. lives
  4. receive
  5. critical
  6. change
  7. significant
  8. chemical

Original Text

So how are we interrupting this kind of kinky courtship? Well, the female's urine carries a critical chemical signal that works because it can pass through seawater and lobsters have a smell receptor that can detect and receive the message. Climate change is making our oceans more acidic. It's the result of too much carbon dioxide entering seawater. This changing chemistry could scramble that message, or it could damage the lobsters' smell receptors. Pollution from land can have similar impacts. Just imagine the consequence for that female if her love potion should fail. These are the kinds of subtle but significant impacts we're having on the love lives of these marine life.

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