IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Three Parent Baby

THREE PARENT BABY

The audio has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. It talks about the concept of three parent baby.

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AUDIO

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

  1. The What is the chemical structure that defines somebody’s characteristics called? DNA
  2. Which word describes the situation in which something does not works?
  3. What is the science of how living creatures pass their characteristics to their offspring called?
  4. Which animal do the humans have their DNA similar to?
  5. The speaker speaks about the similarity between the DNA of humans and bananas. How much are they similar?
  6. The speaker uses a word to describe the technique never used in the past? Which phrase is it?
  7. What are the structures that work like energy factories in our cells called?
  8. What are the babies whose characteristics like height, sex, hair and eye color are created in order called?
  9. The speaker uses an expression to express that something is amazing. What is it?

ANSWERS

  1. DNA
  2. faulty
  3. Genetics
  4. monkeys
  5. 50%
  6. pioneering
  7. mitochondria
  8. designer babies
  9. mind-boggling

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