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From the Ted Talk by Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence

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Plants are even able to communicate — they are extraordinary communicators. They communicate with other plants. They are able to distinguish kin and non-kin. They communicate with plants of other species and they communicate with animals by producing chemical volatiles, for example, during the ptiloilnaon. Now with the pollination, it's a very serious iusse for plants, because they move the pollen from one flower to the other, yet they cannot move from one flower to the other. So they need a vector — and this vector, it's normally an animal. Many insects have been used by plants as vectors for the transport of the pollination, but not just insects; even birds, rpiletes, and mammals like bats rats are normally used for the transportation of the pollen. This is a serious business. We have the plants that are giving to the animals a kind of sweet substance — very eennrgizig — having in change this ttprorintosaan of the peolln. But some palnts are manipulating animals, like in the case of ochdris that promise sex and nectar and give in change nothing for the transportation of the pollen.

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Plants are even able to communicate — they are extraordinary communicators. They communicate with other plants. They are able to distinguish kin and non-kin. They communicate with plants of other species and they communicate with animals by producing chemical volatiles, for example, during the ___________. Now with the pollination, it's a very serious _____ for plants, because they move the pollen from one flower to the other, yet they cannot move from one flower to the other. So they need a vector — and this vector, it's normally an animal. Many insects have been used by plants as vectors for the transport of the pollination, but not just insects; even birds, ________, and mammals like bats rats are normally used for the transportation of the pollen. This is a serious business. We have the plants that are giving to the animals a kind of sweet substance — very __________ — having in change this ______________ of the ______. But some ______ are manipulating animals, like in the case of _______ that promise sex and nectar and give in change nothing for the transportation of the pollen.

Solution


  1. orchids
  2. plants
  3. transportation
  4. issue
  5. energizing
  6. reptiles
  7. pollination
  8. pollen

Original Text


Plants are even able to communicate — they are extraordinary communicators. They communicate with other plants. They are able to distinguish kin and non-kin. They communicate with plants of other species and they communicate with animals by producing chemical volatiles, for example, during the pollination. Now with the pollination, it's a very serious issue for plants, because they move the pollen from one flower to the other, yet they cannot move from one flower to the other. So they need a vector — and this vector, it's normally an animal. Many insects have been used by plants as vectors for the transport of the pollination, but not just insects; even birds, reptiles, and mammals like bats rats are normally used for the transportation of the pollen. This is a serious business. We have the plants that are giving to the animals a kind of sweet substance — very energizing — having in change this transportation of the pollen. But some plants are manipulating animals, like in the case of orchids that promise sex and nectar and give in change nothing for the transportation of the pollen.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. animal
  2. animals
  3. bats
  4. birds
  5. business
  6. case
  7. change
  8. chemical
  9. communicate
  10. communicators
  11. distinguish
  12. energizing
  13. extraordinary
  14. flower
  15. give
  16. giving
  17. insects
  18. issue
  19. kin
  20. kind
  21. mammals
  22. manipulating
  23. move
  24. nectar
  25. orchids
  26. plants
  27. pollen
  28. pollination
  29. producing
  30. promise
  31. rats
  32. reptiles
  33. sex
  34. species
  35. substance
  36. sweet
  37. transport
  38. transportation
  39. vector
  40. vectors
  41. volatiles