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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def merge_failures_dereplicated_seqs(failures, dereplicated_clusters):
 """ Appends failures from dereplicated seqs to failures list failures: list of failures dereplicated_clusters: dict of seq IDs: dereplicated seq IDs """


    curr_failures = set(failures)
    dereplicated_ids = set(dereplicated_clusters)

    for curr_failure in curr_failures:
        if curr_failure in dereplicated_ids:
            failures += dereplicated_clusters[curr_failure]

    return failures