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Imagine an animal that becomes frozen in cold weather. Then, when it gets warmer, the animal simply unfreezes and goes back to i
Imagine an animal that becomes frozen in cold weather. Then, when it gets warmer, the animal simply unfreezes and goes back to i
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2018-04-13
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Imagine an animal that becomes frozen in cold weather. Then, when it gets warmer, the animal simply unfreezes and goes back to it$ normal life. Although this may sound like something from a science-fiction movie, it is exactly what happens to the wood frog over winter and spring. When winter begins, the frog, which is found throughout much of Canada, buries itself in leaves and dirt.
As the ground begins to freeze, so does the frog’ s body.
Normally, if a living creature is frozen, the cells inside its body are destroyed, leading to death. How, then, does the wood frog survive? The secret lies in the fact that although the water between the cells in the frog’ s body becomes frozen, the water inside the cells does not freeze. Before the winter begins, the frog stores starch in its body. As the weather gets colder, the drop in temperature causes the frog’s body to change this starch into glucose (葡萄糖). This glucose, in turn, lowers the temperature at which the liquid inside the frog’ s cells freezes. As a result, the cells do not freeze even at very low temperatures, allowing the frog to stay alive. Some wood frogs stay in this frozen state—with their hearts stopped completely—for months without harm.
Now researchers are hoping to adapt the wood frog’ s secret to help them preserve human organs for transplants. Currently, after organs are removed from a donor’ s body, they are packed in a special liquid and kept very cold. However, they cannot be frozen because the ice would damage the cells in the organs. For this reason, the organs must be used quickly. If doctors had a way to preserve organs longer, they would have more time to find the best matches among people waiting for organ transplants.
There is still a lot about the wood frog that scientists do not understand. They still have to work out, for example, exactly how the frog is able to unfreeze itself and what actually restarts the frog’ s heart when the weather becomes warmer. What is clear, however, is that lessons learned by studying this tiny creature could be of great benefit to humans in the near future.
Which of the following is true?
选项
A、The wood frog needs starch in order to stop the cells in its body from dying.
B、Researchers are trying to find a way to transplant the organs of wood frogs.
C、Wood frogs use the glucose in their cells to unfreeze their bodies at the end of winter.
D、Scientists are now using the process that takes place in a wood frog’ s body to prepare human organs for transplant.
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。根据文章第二段对树蛙这种特殊能力的描述以及“the frog stores starch in its body”和“This glucose…lowers the temperature…”可知,选项A正确,选项C错误;根据文章倒数第二段第一句“…researchers are hoping to adapt…help them preserve human organs for transplants.”可排除B、D项。故选A。
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