Tiny Ocean Microbe Forms Sticky Groups That Carry Carbon Deep
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists at MIT found something new about Prochlorococcus.
- A2
Scientists at MIT found something new about Prochlorococcus.
- B1
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a new habit in Prochlorococcus.
- B2
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found that Prochlorococcus, a tiny ocean organism, does not only float alone.
- C1
Sallie (Penny) Chisholm, an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and her colleagues discovered Prochlorococcus decades ago.
- C2
For decades after Sallie (Penny) Chisholm, an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and her colleagues discovered Prochlorococcus, the microbe was cast as a loner.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- organism
- a single living thing, such as a plant, an animal, or a very small cell
- attach
- to join or fix one thing to another thing
- confirm
- to show that an idea or belief is definitely true
- particle
- a very small piece of something
- sample
- a small amount of something that is tested to learn about the whole thing
- estimate
- a guess of what a size or number might be without calculating it exactly
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.