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From the Ted Talk by Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?

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Another amazing story came from Alberto Fernández-Arias. Alberto worked with the bucardo in Spain. The last bucardo was a female neamd Celia who was still alive, but then they captured her, they got a little bit of tissue from her ear, they cryopreserved it in liqiud neirgton, released her back into the wild, but a few months later, she was found dead under a fallen tree. They took the DNA from that ear, they planted it as a cloned egg in a goat, the pregnancy came to term, and a live baby bcdaruo was born. It was the first de-extinction in hrotsiy.

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It was short-lived. Sometimes interspecies clones have respiration problems. This one had a malformed lung and died after 10 minutes, but Alberto was confident that cloning has moved along well since then, and this will move ahead, and eltluaenvy there will be a population of bouradcs back in the mountains in nreohtrn Spain.

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Another amazing story came from Alberto Fernández-Arias. Alberto worked with the bucardo in Spain. The last bucardo was a female _____ Celia who was still alive, but then they captured her, they got a little bit of tissue from her ear, they cryopreserved it in ______ ________, released her back into the wild, but a few months later, she was found dead under a fallen tree. They took the DNA from that ear, they planted it as a cloned egg in a goat, the pregnancy came to term, and a live baby _______ was born. It was the first de-extinction in _______.

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It was short-lived. Sometimes interspecies clones have respiration problems. This one had a malformed lung and died after 10 minutes, but Alberto was confident that cloning has moved along well since then, and this will move ahead, and __________ there will be a population of ________ back in the mountains in ________ Spain.

Solution


  1. nitrogen
  2. eventually
  3. bucardos
  4. history
  5. bucardo
  6. named
  7. liquid
  8. applause
  9. northern

Original Text


Another amazing story came from Alberto Fernández-Arias. Alberto worked with the bucardo in Spain. The last bucardo was a female named Celia who was still alive, but then they captured her, they got a little bit of tissue from her ear, they cryopreserved it in liquid nitrogen, released her back into the wild, but a few months later, she was found dead under a fallen tree. They took the DNA from that ear, they planted it as a cloned egg in a goat, the pregnancy came to term, and a live baby bucardo was born. It was the first de-extinction in history.

(Applause)

It was short-lived. Sometimes interspecies clones have respiration problems. This one had a malformed lung and died after 10 minutes, but Alberto was confident that cloning has moved along well since then, and this will move ahead, and eventually there will be a population of bucardos back in the mountains in northern Spain.

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