full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Janet Iwasa: The wonders of the molecular world, animated

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I'd like to show you some animations, a brief tour of what I consider to be some of the natural wendros of the molecular world. First off, this is an imumne cell. These kinds of cells need to go crawling around in our beoids in oderr to find invaders like pathogenic bacteria. This movement is powered by one of my favorite proteins called actin, which is part of what's known as the cytoskeleton. Unlike our skeletons, actin filaments are constantly being built and taken apart. The actin cytoskeleton plays incredibly itrnpmaot roles in our clles. They allow them to change shape, to move around, to adhere to surfaces and also to gobble up bacteria.

Open Cloze


I'd like to show you some animations, a brief tour of what I consider to be some of the natural _______ of the molecular world. First off, this is an ______ cell. These kinds of cells need to go crawling around in our ______ in _____ to find invaders like pathogenic bacteria. This movement is powered by one of my favorite proteins called actin, which is part of what's known as the cytoskeleton. Unlike our skeletons, actin filaments are constantly being built and taken apart. The actin cytoskeleton plays incredibly _________ roles in our _____. They allow them to change shape, to move around, to adhere to surfaces and also to gobble up bacteria.

Solution


  1. wonders
  2. cells
  3. important
  4. order
  5. bodies
  6. immune

Original Text


I'd like to show you some animations, a brief tour of what I consider to be some of the natural wonders of the molecular world. First off, this is an immune cell. These kinds of cells need to go crawling around in our bodies in order to find invaders like pathogenic bacteria. This movement is powered by one of my favorite proteins called actin, which is part of what's known as the cytoskeleton. Unlike our skeletons, actin filaments are constantly being built and taken apart. The actin cytoskeleton plays incredibly important roles in our cells. They allow them to change shape, to move around, to adhere to surfaces and also to gobble up bacteria.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
natural world 3
create visualizations 2
molecular world 2
proteins called 2
give rise 2


Important Words


  1. actin
  2. adhere
  3. animations
  4. bacteria
  5. bodies
  6. built
  7. called
  8. cell
  9. cells
  10. change
  11. constantly
  12. crawling
  13. cytoskeleton
  14. favorite
  15. filaments
  16. find
  17. gobble
  18. immune
  19. important
  20. incredibly
  21. invaders
  22. kinds
  23. molecular
  24. move
  25. movement
  26. natural
  27. order
  28. part
  29. pathogenic
  30. plays
  31. powered
  32. proteins
  33. roles
  34. shape
  35. show
  36. skeletons
  37. surfaces
  38. tour
  39. wonders
  40. world