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Problem

  • How does spaceflight affect living systems?

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  • What experiments are carried out by NASA on the adaptation of living beings in space?

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  • Can we have a space biology “superhero”?

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Objectives

  • Develop a game about the challenges of adapting the human body in space and demonstrate NASA's experiments with living systems;

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  • Create a genetically modified organism that has the ability to produce photosynthesis to oxygenate the atmosphere of Mars.

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Game: Super Tardigrade

Quiz on the challenges faced by humans in space

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The Microorganisms will have to go to space before humans

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Photosynthetic genes of Elysia cholorotica

Tardigrade undergoing genetic modification

Genetic engineering

transgenic

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To feed the tardigrade in space, the alga Vaucheria litorea will receive a radiation resistance gene from the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans

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Genetic engineering

transgenic

radiation resistance gene

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genetically modified seaweed

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Space Biology Super hero

Genetically modified organism that resists the space environment and performing photosynthesis will increase oxygen on the surface of Mars.

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