The Plant That Copies Itself
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists study a special plant.
- A2
Scientists studied a special plant.
- B1
Rhynchospora tenuis is a small plant from Brazil.
- B2
Sexual reproduction normally creates a mix of genes.
- C1
Sexual reproduction is typically defined by its capacity to generate genetic diversity.
- C2
Sexual reproduction is typically defined by its capacity to generate boundless diversity, a process driven by meiosis, which is a special type of cell division that creates reproductive cells like pollen and eggs by mixing genetic material from two parents.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- reproduce
- to produce young plants or animals
- lack
- to not have something that is needed or expected
- nucleus
- the central part of a cell that contains genetic material
- possess
- to have or own something, often a quality or feature
- reversed
- changed to the opposite direction or order
- ensure
- to make certain that something happens
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Max Planck Society. Read the original for the full report.