A New Enzyme from the Deep Sea
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists from an institute study an enzyme.
- A2
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute purified a new enzyme.
- B1
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute and the Institut de Biologie Structurale purified a special enzyme.
- B2
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the Institut de Biologie Structurale have purified a unique enzyme.
- C1
Although nitrogen gas makes up about 78 percent of the Earth's atmosphere, plants and animals cannot use this abundant resource directly.
- C2
Nitrogen gas constitutes approximately 78 percent of the Earth's atmosphere, yet this abundant resource remains entirely inaccessible to both plants and animals in its raw form.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- purify
- To remove dirty or unwanted parts from something so that it is clean.
- isolate
- To separate something from other things so that it is alone.
- atmospheric
- Relating to the air that surrounds the Earth.
- structure
- The way that the parts of something are put together or organized.
- feature
- Important or interesting parts or qualities of something.
- ancestor
- A person, animal, or thing from the past that a modern one developed from.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Max Planck Society. Read the original for the full report.