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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

  1. place
  2. insecticides
  3. house
  4. 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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Important Words

  1. breed
  2. breeding
  3. carry
  4. choice
  5. colleagues
  6. control
  7. decided
  8. difficult
  9. easy
  10. eggs
  11. find
  12. habitats
  13. hoofprints
  14. house
  15. insecticides
  16. larvae
  17. lay
  18. mosquito
  19. mosquitoes
  20. place
  21. pools
  22. scattered
  23. small
  24. survive
  25. villages
  26. wanted
  27. water