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					  What is Pigoon?					 
					
					 The animals used to grow organs compatible for human transplants in Oryx and Crake. 
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					  What is Agriculture?					 
					
					 This industry in Peru makes up for most of the water usage in the country, despite the water scarcity issues that Peruvian citizens face.  
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					  What is an apocalypse?					 
					
					 In popular religious culture, a divinely initiated cataclysmic end of the world. 
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					  What are coral reefs?					 
					
					 These underwater ecosystems are at extreme risk of being lost in the next three decades. 
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					  What are Pleeblands?					 
					
					 In Oryx and Crake, this term meant areas that existed outside of the Compounds. 
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					  What is CRISPR-Cas9?					 
					
					 The Method used to cut DNA strands to edit specific gens. 
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					  What is meat?					 
					
					 In Oryx and Crake, the ability to eat this food was a luxury reserved for the wealthy. 
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					  What are afternoon storms?					 
					
					 The daily weather phenomenon in Oryx and Crake, presumed to be the result of environmental disaster. 
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					  What is the background extinction rate?					 
					
					 The natural rate at which species die off over time. 
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					  What is Sedapal					 
					
					 This water utility company controls drinking water distribution in Lima. 
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					  What is a jellyfish?					 
					
					 A piece of this animal's DNA was put into a rabbit to make its skin glow. 
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					  What are microplastics? 					 
					
					 Pollution regarding this material has both seeped into our oceans and has been found on mountaintops. Textile manufacturing and washing is a large contributor of this. 
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					  What is Conservationx labs					 
					
					 This organization is awarding up to $3 million for their Global Cooling Grand Challenge. 
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					  What is AI or machine learning?					 
					
					 WildMe is using this type of technology to analyze public video and images to track the population of whale sharks. 
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					  What is ELSI: ethical, legal, and social issues? 					 
					
					 Topic areas relevant to gene editing are broadly summed up under this acronym. 
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					  What is "in vitro"? 
					
					 The Latin term for the type of experiment done on living tissue outside of an organism. 
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					  What are fog catchers? 					 
					
					 Peruvians used this technology to collect water from the air to supplement their water supply. 
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					  What is a greenhouse?					 
					
					 A botanical name for a time period without continental glaciers; or, the type of gases that raise the average global temperature. 
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					  What is artisanal gold mining?					 
					
					 This industry in Peru is causing great destruction of rain forest habitats, including mercury contamination. 
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					  What is seasteading?					 
					
					 This libertarian utopia involves the creation of microstates on manmade islands in international waters. 
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					  What are rabbits?					 
					
					 The animal that inspired crake to include caecotrophy in the crakers. 
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					  What is Desalination?					 
					
					 Innovation in this field can help reduce water scarcity by turning sea water into drinkable water. 
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					  What is ultraviolet?					 
					
					 The Crakers’ skin was genetically modified to be more resistant to this type of solar radiation. 
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					  What is the Anthropocene?					 
					
					 The name of the proposed geological epoch that encompasses the significant impact that humans have caused on Earth. 
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					  What is nine billion dollars?					 
					
					 According to Dr. Alex Dehgan, a 5X increase in room AC efficiency would enable India to save this much in electrical subsidies per year. 
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