Find the words from the text "The Medusa and the Snail" which have the following meanings: a. Persons who are related to you and who live after you, such as your child or grandchild are called ______. b. '______' means to turn or spin around and around quickly. c. ______ are proteins which contain oligosaccharide chains (glycans) attached to amino acid side-chains. d. ______ are carbohydrate-binding proteins that are highly specific for sugar groups that are part of other molecules and so cause agglutination of particular cells. e. ______ are abnormal tissue growths or sedentary colonial forms found in the phylum Cnidaria and the medusa. f. ______ is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. g. ______ is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family (or marine coelenterates). h. A/An ______ person is extremely or excessively particular, exacting, or meticulous in taste or standards. i. ______ is a group of soft-bodied, marine gastropod molluscs which shed their shells after their larval stage. j. A ______ is a free-swimming sexual form of a coelenterate such as a jellyfish, typically having an umbrella-shaped body with stinging tentacles.

Look up a dictionary and write the meanings of the following words, then use them in your own sentences: arthropod, gastropod, biomass, calcification, metamorphosis, sturgeon

Answer the following questions based on the essay "The Medusa and the Snail": a. What are the indicators of the fact that we are very self-conscious about ourselves these days? b. How have we celebrated the fact that we have our individual identity? c. Are we, human beings, really unique? Why/Why not? d. How do fish recognize each other? e. What is the function of individuality? f. What does the mix-up of two selves tell us about our identity? g. What does the author illustrate with the tale of the nudibranch and the medusa? h. Why is the author disturbed by the thought of creatures like the nudibranch and medusa? i. What does the writer mean by “they remind me of the whole earth at once?”

Write an essay on “Independence vs. Interdependence” in about 250–300 words.