Animal Superpowers
A state where an animal's life processes are stopped temporarily, allowing them to survive freezing or radiation.
What is suspended animation?
A medical operation in which an organ or tissue is moved from one person to another.
What is a transplant?
A method of farming where plants are grown in nutrient-rich water instead of soil.
What is hydroponics?
The seasonal rainy period in Southern Asia that causes heavy flooding on Majuli Island.
What is the monsoon?
To plant seeds by scattering them on or in the earth.
What is to sow?
The ability of an animal (like a python) to regrow or rebuild its internal organs.
What is regeneration?
A life-threatening condition caused by the body's response to an infection, which can lead to tissue damage.
What is sepsis?
A mixture of decayed organic matter, like leaves and food scraps, used to fertilize soil.
What is compost?
The gradual wearing away of soil or land by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion?
To prepare land for crops by digging it up or turning it over.
What is to till?
The chemical processes within a living organism that change food into energy.
What is metabolism?
A substance, like the one found in a wood frog's liver, that prevents cells from freezing and breaking.
The supply of water to land or crops to help growth, often using channels or pumps.
What is irrigation?
To be left trapped or isolated in a place (like an island) with no way of leaving.
What is marooned?
To control and make use of a natural resource or a specific animal strategy.
What is to harness?
A shared set of biochemical responses or a "pattern" found in cells for slowing biological time.
What is a blueprint?
A condition related to high blood sugar that researchers are studying by looking at python physiology.
What is diabetes?
The ability of a material (like the new floating rafts) to last a long time without breaking or rotting.
What is durability?
Materials that cannot be broken down naturally by organisms and can cause pollution.
What is nonbiodegradable?
To keep something in its original state or in good condition, such as donated organs.
What is to preserve?
A word used to describe powers that seem like they belong in a myth or a story rather than real life.
What is fantastical?
These medical treatments, which use proteins to fight disease, would benefit from being stabilized at room temperature.
What are antibody therapies?
A term used to describe a method that is productive but does not cost a lot of money to maintain.
What is cost-effective?
When something, like the weather or a harvest, cannot be known or guessed in advance.
What is unpredictable?
To copy the behavior or appearance of something else, like using animal traits for human technology.
What is to mimic?