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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Wilker: What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So on the top is an image of one of the types of molecules that the animals are using to make their glue, and what they are is they're very long molecules, they're claeld proteins, and these poeritns happen to have some fairly unique parts in them that birng about the aedvshie properties. What we want to do is take those little prtas of that chemistry, and we want to put it into other long molecules that we can get but things that we can make on a really large scale, so you might know them as plastics or polymers, and so we're sort of simplifying what they do, but then putting that adhesion chemistry into these large molecules.

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So on the top is an image of one of the types of molecules that the animals are using to make their glue, and what they are is they're very long molecules, they're ______ proteins, and these ________ happen to have some fairly unique parts in them that _____ about the ________ properties. What we want to do is take those little _____ of that chemistry, and we want to put it into other long molecules that we can get but things that we can make on a really large scale, so you might know them as plastics or polymers, and so we're sort of simplifying what they do, but then putting that adhesion chemistry into these large molecules.

Solution


  1. parts
  2. called
  3. bring
  4. proteins
  5. adhesive

Original Text


So on the top is an image of one of the types of molecules that the animals are using to make their glue, and what they are is they're very long molecules, they're called proteins, and these proteins happen to have some fairly unique parts in them that bring about the adhesive properties. What we want to do is take those little parts of that chemistry, and we want to put it into other long molecules that we can get but things that we can make on a really large scale, so you might know them as plastics or polymers, and so we're sort of simplifying what they do, but then putting that adhesion chemistry into these large molecules.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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sea creatures 2
reproductive efficiency 2
marine biology 2
adhesion chemistry 2
wet environment 2


Important Words


  1. adhesion
  2. adhesive
  3. animals
  4. bring
  5. called
  6. chemistry
  7. glue
  8. happen
  9. image
  10. large
  11. long
  12. molecules
  13. parts
  14. plastics
  15. polymers
  16. properties
  17. proteins
  18. put
  19. putting
  20. scale
  21. simplifying
  22. sort
  23. top
  24. types
  25. unique