Xenobots - Cracking the Morphogenetic Code

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Here are lists of some words that you will hear in the interview. Don't panic, you don't have to memorize them all or understand them perfectly in order to learn from this video. However, if you take some effort to study them, it will make listening easier and you'll get a fuller understanding of all the details.

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QUESTION 1/10

Which of the sentences is false according to the first part of the interview

A tadpole with abnormal morphology always develops into a morphologically disrupted frog.

A tadpole with normal morphology develops into a morphologically correct frog.

A tadpole with abnormal morphology can develop into a morphologically correct frog.

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QUESTION 2/10

According to the introductory part of the interview, the fundamental research question is:

How do cells exchange information?

How tadpoles develop into adult frogs?

What is the future of biology?

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QUESTION 3/10

Non-neural bioelectricity refers to:

communication between (all) cells via electrical signals

biochemical signals that cells send to one another

different colors of cells in an embryo

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QUESTION 4/10

Prof. Levin compares information that cells share via electrical networks to:

large-scale anatomical structures

brain tissue

memory

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QUESTION 5/10

The analogy to the computer world shows that

computer software generates bioelectrical signals

bioelectrical signals between cells are like software in computers

DNA can't be compared to computer hardware

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QUESTION 5/10

The analogy to the computer world shows that

computer software generates bioelectrical signals

bioelectrical signals between cells are like software in computers

DNA can't be compared to computer hardware

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QUESTION 6/10

Planaria flatworms were chosen for the experiment because

they produce electrical gradient

they are highly regenerative

they have two heads

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QUESTION 7/10

When Prof. Levin says that "the pattern memory to which the animals will regenerate after damage has been permanently rewritten" (9:58) the amazing finding is that

it is the bioelectric layer that stores the morphogenetic memory

the morphogenetic code isn't stored directly in the genome

both A) and B) are correct

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This way!

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QUESTION 8/10

The two-headed flatworms:

have some problems with ingestion

are perfectly healthy

excrete through their mouth

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QUESTION 9/10

The tadpole grew an extra eye because

scientists know how to micromanage the construction of the eye

specific ion channels had been turned on in its cells

it couldn't see

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QUESTION 10/10

The amazing thing about xenobots is that

their cells aren't genetically modified

they are built of skin cells only

both a) and b) are correct

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