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From the Ted Talk by Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So we're able to then see the self-assembly of these oil droplet bodies again that we've seen previously, and the black spots inside of there represent this kind of black tar — this diverse, very complex, organic balck tar. And we put them into one of these experiments, as you've seen earlier, and then we wtach lively movement that comes out. They look really good, very nice movement, and also they appear to have some kind of bvioaher where they kind of circle around each other and fololw each other, similar to what we've seen before — but again, working with just primordial conditions, no pure chemicals. These are also, these tar-fueled pooctlerls, are also able to locate rruecsoes in their environment. I'm going to add some resource from the left, here, that defuses into the system, and you can see, they really like that. They become very energetic, and able to find the resource in the environment, similar to what we saw before. But again, these are done in these pamiidorrl conditions, really msesy conditions, not sort of sertile laboratory citdioonns. These are very dirty little protocells, as a matter of fact. (Laughter) But they have lifelike properties, is the point.

Open Cloze


So we're able to then see the self-assembly of these oil droplet bodies again that we've seen previously, and the black spots inside of there represent this kind of black tar — this diverse, very complex, organic _____ tar. And we put them into one of these experiments, as you've seen earlier, and then we _____ lively movement that comes out. They look really good, very nice movement, and also they appear to have some kind of ________ where they kind of circle around each other and ______ each other, similar to what we've seen before — but again, working with just primordial conditions, no pure chemicals. These are also, these tar-fueled __________, are also able to locate _________ in their environment. I'm going to add some resource from the left, here, that defuses into the system, and you can see, they really like that. They become very energetic, and able to find the resource in the environment, similar to what we saw before. But again, these are done in these __________ conditions, really _____ conditions, not sort of _______ laboratory __________. These are very dirty little protocells, as a matter of fact. (Laughter) But they have lifelike properties, is the point.

Solution


  1. black
  2. behavior
  3. follow
  4. conditions
  5. resources
  6. watch
  7. primordial
  8. protocells
  9. messy
  10. sterile

Original Text


So we're able to then see the self-assembly of these oil droplet bodies again that we've seen previously, and the black spots inside of there represent this kind of black tar — this diverse, very complex, organic black tar. And we put them into one of these experiments, as you've seen earlier, and then we watch lively movement that comes out. They look really good, very nice movement, and also they appear to have some kind of behavior where they kind of circle around each other and follow each other, similar to what we've seen before — but again, working with just primordial conditions, no pure chemicals. These are also, these tar-fueled protocells, are also able to locate resources in their environment. I'm going to add some resource from the left, here, that defuses into the system, and you can see, they really like that. They become very energetic, and able to find the resource in the environment, similar to what we saw before. But again, these are done in these primordial conditions, really messy conditions, not sort of sterile laboratory conditions. These are very dirty little protocells, as a matter of fact. (Laughter) But they have lifelike properties, is the point.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
living systems 10
artificial life 3
oil droplet 3
protocell ab 3
building blocks 2
chemical metabolism 2
protocell starts 2
lifelike behavior 2
simple system 2
diverse mixture 2
chemical bonds 2
break chemical 2
pure chemicals 2
lifelike properties 2
primordial ooze 2
black tar 2


Important Words


  1. add
  2. behavior
  3. black
  4. bodies
  5. chemicals
  6. circle
  7. complex
  8. conditions
  9. defuses
  10. dirty
  11. diverse
  12. droplet
  13. earlier
  14. energetic
  15. environment
  16. experiments
  17. fact
  18. find
  19. follow
  20. good
  21. kind
  22. laboratory
  23. laughter
  24. left
  25. lifelike
  26. lively
  27. locate
  28. matter
  29. messy
  30. movement
  31. nice
  32. oil
  33. organic
  34. point
  35. previously
  36. primordial
  37. properties
  38. protocells
  39. pure
  40. put
  41. represent
  42. resource
  43. resources
  44. similar
  45. sort
  46. spots
  47. sterile
  48. system
  49. tar
  50. watch
  51. working