Gene Editing Natural Resources Climate Change Biodiversity / Extinction Social Issues
100
What is Pigoon?
The animals used to grow organs compatible for human transplants in Oryx and Crake.
100
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.
100
What is an apocalypse?
In popular religious culture, a divinely initiated cataclysmic end of the world.
100
What are coral reefs?
These underwater ecosystems are at extreme risk of being lost in the next three decades.
100
What are Pleeblands?
In Oryx and Crake, this term meant areas that existed outside of the Compounds.
200
What is CRISPR-Cas9?
The Method used to cut DNA strands to edit specific gens.
200
What is meat?
In Oryx and Crake, the ability to eat this food was a luxury reserved for the wealthy.
200
What are afternoon storms?
The daily weather phenomenon in Oryx and Crake, presumed to be the result of environmental disaster.
200
What is the background extinction rate?
The natural rate at which species die off over time.
200
What is Sedapal
This water utility company controls drinking water distribution in Lima.
300
What is a jellyfish?
A piece of this animal's DNA was put into a rabbit to make its skin glow.
300
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.
300
What is Conservationx labs
This organization is awarding up to $3 million for their Global Cooling Grand Challenge.
300
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.
300
What is ELSI: ethical, legal, and social issues?
Topic areas relevant to gene editing are broadly summed up under this acronym.
400
What is "in vitro"?
The Latin term for the type of experiment done on living tissue outside of an organism.
400
What are fog catchers?
Peruvians used this technology to collect water from the air to supplement their water supply.
400
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.
400
What is artisanal gold mining?
This industry in Peru is causing great destruction of rain forest habitats, including mercury contamination.
400
What is seasteading?
This libertarian utopia involves the creation of microstates on manmade islands in international waters.
500
What are rabbits?
The animal that inspired crake to include caecotrophy in the crakers.
500
What is Desalination?
Innovation in this field can help reduce water scarcity by turning sea water into drinkable water.
500
What is ultraviolet?
The Crakers’ skin was genetically modified to be more resistant to this type of solar radiation.
500
What is the Anthropocene?
The name of the proposed geological epoch that encompasses the significant impact that humans have caused on Earth.
500
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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