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From the Ted Talk by Jason W. Chin: A virus-resistant organism -- and what it could mean for the future

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To realize genetically-encoded polymer synthesis in our virus-resistant osiagnrm, we added synthetic DNA containing the trleipt cnoods we'd revomed from the genome of the cell and einnergeed translational machinery to read these codons and reassign them to new cmheaicl building blocks for new polymers. This system can be programmed to make diverse synthetic polymers. By changing the order of the triplet codons in the synthetic DNA, we can cgnahe the oedrr of the chemical building blocks that we program into the resulting polymer. And by changing the identity of the engineered translational machinery that we add to the cell, we can change the identity of the chemical building blocks from which we compose the polymer.

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To realize genetically-encoded polymer synthesis in our virus-resistant ________, we added synthetic DNA containing the _______ ______ we'd _______ from the genome of the cell and __________ translational machinery to read these codons and reassign them to new ________ building blocks for new polymers. This system can be programmed to make diverse synthetic polymers. By changing the order of the triplet codons in the synthetic DNA, we can ______ the _____ of the chemical building blocks that we program into the resulting polymer. And by changing the identity of the engineered translational machinery that we add to the cell, we can change the identity of the chemical building blocks from which we compose the polymer.

Solution


  1. change
  2. removed
  3. chemical
  4. codons
  5. engineered
  6. order
  7. triplet
  8. organism

Original Text


To realize genetically-encoded polymer synthesis in our virus-resistant organism, we added synthetic DNA containing the triplet codons we'd removed from the genome of the cell and engineered translational machinery to read these codons and reassign them to new chemical building blocks for new polymers. This system can be programmed to make diverse synthetic polymers. By changing the order of the triplet codons in the synthetic DNA, we can change the order of the chemical building blocks that we program into the resulting polymer. And by changing the identity of the engineered translational machinery that we add to the cell, we can change the identity of the chemical building blocks from which we compose the polymer.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
genetic code 13
amino acid 12
triplet codons 11
building blocks 10
translational machinery 8
amino acids 6
chemical building 6
acid building 3
acid serine 3
common amino 3
synonymous codons 3
targeted codons 3
synthetic genome 3
synthetic polymers 3
clean factories 2
triplet codon 2
dna encodes 2
short pieces 2
compressed genetic 2
natural cells 2
polymer synthesis 2
engineered translational 2
program cells 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
chemical building blocks 6
amino acid building 3
acid building blocks 3
amino acid serine 3
common amino acids 3
compressed genetic code 2
engineered translational machinery 2

Important Words


  1. add
  2. added
  3. blocks
  4. building
  5. cell
  6. change
  7. changing
  8. chemical
  9. codons
  10. compose
  11. diverse
  12. dna
  13. engineered
  14. genome
  15. identity
  16. machinery
  17. order
  18. organism
  19. polymer
  20. polymers
  21. program
  22. programmed
  23. read
  24. realize
  25. reassign
  26. removed
  27. resulting
  28. synthesis
  29. synthetic
  30. system
  31. translational
  32. triplet