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From the Ted Talk by Dan Knights: How we study the microbes living in your gut

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My lab got our first indication of this when actually we were stinudyg non-human primates. We wanted to find out what happens to a monkey's microbiome when they move from the jungle to a zoo. Does their microbiome cahnge? Do they pick up new bugs? Do they lose some? Does it get better or wsore? We tracked two different species in the jungle, one in Vietnam, one in Costa Rica, and then we sequenced the DNA from their stool. This is how we study the microbiome in my research lab. And what we found in the DNA is that in the wild, these two species had tloltay different sets of microbes. It was like a fingerprint for the sceepis. But in the zoo, they had lost most of that diversity and had aeicruqd some other set of microbes.

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My lab got our first indication of this when actually we were ________ non-human primates. We wanted to find out what happens to a monkey's microbiome when they move from the jungle to a zoo. Does their microbiome ______? Do they pick up new bugs? Do they lose some? Does it get better or _____? We tracked two different species in the jungle, one in Vietnam, one in Costa Rica, and then we sequenced the DNA from their stool. This is how we study the microbiome in my research lab. And what we found in the DNA is that in the wild, these two species had _______ different sets of microbes. It was like a fingerprint for the _______. But in the zoo, they had lost most of that diversity and had ________ some other set of microbes.

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  1. acquired
  2. change
  3. species
  4. studying
  5. worse
  6. totally

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My lab got our first indication of this when actually we were studying non-human primates. We wanted to find out what happens to a monkey's microbiome when they move from the jungle to a zoo. Does their microbiome change? Do they pick up new bugs? Do they lose some? Does it get better or worse? We tracked two different species in the jungle, one in Vietnam, one in Costa Rica, and then we sequenced the DNA from their stool. This is how we study the microbiome in my research lab. And what we found in the DNA is that in the wild, these two species had totally different sets of microbes. It was like a fingerprint for the species. But in the zoo, they had lost most of that diversity and had acquired some other set of microbes.

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