新英美报刊选读（第五版） 课件 unit 5 passage 1.pptx

;DNA in Air Can Catalog Hidden Insects All around Us;;;Pre-reading：read the supplementary material, and think about following questions.What is biodiversity ?;Why does it matter to us?;Watch the video to learn more about biodiversity.;;Part I (Para.1-3) Main Idea: Introduction of air sampling method Para.1 Background information: the loss of biodiversy Para.2-3 What is air sampling method;;;Detailed Reading;1 A decade ago, biologists and natural historians around the world launched ambitious goals to create inventories of our planet’s biodiversity. After all, they said, you can’t save what you don’t know exists. Even some?high estimates?suggest that only a quarter of Earth’s species have been described by science, raising concerns about the big picture amidst rising extinction rates. 2 As these projects have crept along with the painstaking work of collecting and describing species, a new line of attack has emerged for capturing the DNA of Earth’s unknown species for cataloguing purposes: pull it out of thin air. 3 The approach, which involves sequencing the genetic material in cells shed by organisms, or their environmental DNA (eDNA), is especially useful in sampling insects. It is less costly and faster than traditional sampling methods, and can capture data from many species at once without harming them.;4 A new?poster, presented this week at the Ecology Across Borders?conference, reports on a proof-of-concept effort to show how it works. While employed as a?postdoctoral fellow?at Lund University in Sweden, Fabian Roger collected airborne samples using a commercially available liquid cyclone contraption, which swirls air into a liquid-filled tube, thereby trapping DNA fragments previously borne in the air. He collected air samples at three locations in southern Sweden, where he also used traditional methods to survey insects for comparison. 5 Roger and his colleagues then extracted DNA segments from the samples for subsequent amplification and se