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- 3. When he got back to the Carara station, he had checked the small research library there, but found no reference to _______ lizard bites
- 4. There had already been cases of American __________ companies moving to another country so they would not be hampered by regulations and rules. The most flagrant, Morris explained, was the Biosyn rabies case.
- 7. Characteristically, he turned them all down, wanting only to continue his ___________.
- 8. We had found lots of ________ material, but we had very little dietary data.
- 10. Countries that perceived genetic engineering to be like any other high-tech ___________, and thus welcomed it to their lands, unaware of the dangers posed.
- 12. _________ the foot had become swollen and the infant had nearly died.
- 16. New ________ were being discovered all the time at a pace that had increased in recent years, for a sad reason. Costa Rica was becoming deforested, and as jungle ________ lost their habitats, they moved to other areas, and sometimes changed behavior as well.
- 17. The Costa Ricans were not especially ___________, but she had heard the hupia mentioned in the village before.
- 18. In 1986, Genetic Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino tested a bioengineered rabies _______ on a farm in Chile. They didn’t inform the government of Chile, or the farm workers involved. They simply released the ________.
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- 1. Information that ___________ could provide. He had been called as an expert witness twice in the past few years.
- 2. “I don’t get it,” Grant said. He flipped through the sheets. “These are ______________ plans.” He turned to the top sheet:
- 5. Depending on who you talked to, Lewis Dodgson was famous as the most aggressive __________ of his generation, or the most reckless.
- 6. And finally, as if to emphasize their emergence from academia into the world, they dressed and spoke with what one senior mathematician called “a __________ excess of personality.” In fact, they often behaved like rock stars.
- 9. The lab also detected trace quantities of the gamma-amino methionine hydrolase. Because this _______ was a marker for genetic engineering, and not found in wild animals, technicians assumed it was a lab contaminant and did not report it when they called Dr. Cruz, the referring physician in Punta Arenas.
- 11. Ellie knew that one of Grant’s dreams was to study infant-rearing behavior in carnivorous dinosaurs, as he had already studied the behavior of ________.
- 13. Alice was uninformed; she was just a ______ who worked in the bacteriology lab down the hall.
- 14. But along with the excitement of a new species was the worrisome possibility of new _________.
- 15. When we remove fossils that are broken or for some other reason not suitable for museum preservation, we send the bones out to a lab that grinds them up and tries to extract _______ for us.