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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Drori: The beautiful tricks of flowers

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Now we don't know exactly what a bee sees, any more than you know what I'm seeing when I call this red. We can't know what's going on in — let alone an insect's — another human being's mind. But the contrast will look something like that, so standing out a lot from the background. Here's another little flower — different range of ultraviolet frequencies, different filters to mctah the pollinators. And that's the sort of thing that it would be seeing. Just in case you think that all yellow flowers have this pproerty — no flower was damaged in the prsoces of this shot; it was just attached to the tripod, not killed — then under ultraviolet light, look at that. And that could be the basis of a snceerusn because sunscreens work by aorbsnbig ueiraltlovt light. So maybe the chemical in that would be useful.

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Now we don't know exactly what a bee sees, any more than you know what I'm seeing when I call this red. We can't know what's going on in — let alone an insect's — another human being's mind. But the contrast will look something like that, so standing out a lot from the background. Here's another little flower — different range of ultraviolet frequencies, different filters to _____ the pollinators. And that's the sort of thing that it would be seeing. Just in case you think that all yellow flowers have this ________ — no flower was damaged in the _______ of this shot; it was just attached to the tripod, not killed — then under ultraviolet light, look at that. And that could be the basis of a _________ because sunscreens work by _________ ___________ light. So maybe the chemical in that would be useful.

Solution


  1. process
  2. match
  3. absorbing
  4. property
  5. ultraviolet
  6. sunscreen

Original Text


Now we don't know exactly what a bee sees, any more than you know what I'm seeing when I call this red. We can't know what's going on in — let alone an insect's — another human being's mind. But the contrast will look something like that, so standing out a lot from the background. Here's another little flower — different range of ultraviolet frequencies, different filters to match the pollinators. And that's the sort of thing that it would be seeing. Just in case you think that all yellow flowers have this property — no flower was damaged in the process of this shot; it was just attached to the tripod, not killed — then under ultraviolet light, look at that. And that could be the basis of a sunscreen because sunscreens work by absorbing ultraviolet light. So maybe the chemical in that would be useful.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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scanning electron 3
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yellow flowers 3
nectar tube 2
plant mimics 2
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constant temperature 2
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Important Words


  1. absorbing
  2. attached
  3. background
  4. basis
  5. bee
  6. call
  7. case
  8. chemical
  9. contrast
  10. damaged
  11. filters
  12. flower
  13. flowers
  14. frequencies
  15. human
  16. killed
  17. light
  18. lot
  19. match
  20. mind
  21. pollinators
  22. process
  23. property
  24. range
  25. red
  26. sees
  27. sort
  28. standing
  29. sunscreen
  30. sunscreens
  31. tripod
  32. ultraviolet
  33. work
  34. yellow