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From the Ted Talk by Fredros Okumu: Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes
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Take this, for example. Mosquitoes breed in small pools of water. Not all of them are easy to find — they can be scattered across villages, they can be as small as hoofprints. They can be behind your hosue or far from your house. And so, if you wanted to control mosquito larvae, it can actually be quite difficult to get them. What my colleagues and I have decided to do is to think about what if we used mosquitoes themselves to crary the ieiccetidsns from a palce of our choice to their own breeding habitats so that whichever eggs they lay there shall not survive.
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Take this, for example. Mosquitoes breed in small pools of water. Not all of them are easy to find — they can be scattered across villages, they can be as small as hoofprints. They can be behind your _____ or far from your house. And so, if you wanted to control mosquito larvae, it can actually be quite difficult to get them. What my colleagues and I have decided to do is to think about what if we used mosquitoes themselves to _____ the ____________ from a _____ of our choice to their own breeding habitats so that whichever eggs they lay there shall not survive.
Solution
- place
- insecticides
- house
- carry
Original Text
Take this, for example. Mosquitoes breed in small pools of water. Not all of them are easy to find — they can be scattered across villages, they can be as small as hoofprints. They can be behind your house or far from your house. And so, if you wanted to control mosquito larvae, it can actually be quite difficult to get them. What my colleagues and I have decided to do is to think about what if we used mosquitoes themselves to carry the insecticides from a place of our choice to their own breeding habitats so that whichever eggs they lay there shall not survive.
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- colleagues
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- eggs
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- hoofprints
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- insecticides
- larvae
- lay
- mosquito
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- villages
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- water