{"id":17968,"date":"2023-12-10T01:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T20:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17968"},"modified":"2025-04-05T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:20:14","slug":"electric-eel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/electric-eel\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric eel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Electric eel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The scientific name of this species is\u00a0Electrophorus Electricus\u00a0which\u00a0is a fish that only lives in\u00a0freshwater areas.<\/li>\n<li>They can release up to 860 volts, which is enough to run a machine.<\/li>\n<li>They emit a weak electric signal, which they use like radar to navigate, to\u00a0find a mate, and\u00a0to find prey.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Appearance:\n<ul>\n<li>It has a slender, snake-like body and flattened head.<\/li>\n<li>It has three specialized electric organs\u2014the main electrical organ, the\u00a0Hunter\u2019s organ and the Sachs\u2019 organ which make up about 80 percent of this fish\u2019s body.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It can deliver a shock because its nervous system contains a number of disc-shaped electrogenic (electricity-producing) cells called electrocytes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Habitat:\u00a0They dwell\u00a0mainly on the muddy bottoms of rivers and occasionally swamps, preferring deeply shaded areas.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: Its range spans across Brazil, the Guianas, Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Least concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Electroporation?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Electroporation uses an electric field to create temporary pores in the cell membrane. This lets molecules, like DNA or proteins, enter the target cell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the International Union for Conservation of Nature?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Founded in 1948, IUCN has become the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/can-electricity-from-electric-eels-transfer-genetic-material-to-nearby-animals\/article67618604.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Can electricity from electric eels transfer genetic material to nearby animals?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric eel emit a weak electric signal, which they use like radar to navigate, to find a mate, and to find prey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}