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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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