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From the Ted Talk by Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken

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But we thhogut maybe — well, we thought maybe that the material was breaking down after it was coming out of the ground. We thought maybe it was deteriorating very fast. And so we bluit a laboratory in the back of an 18-wheeler trailer, and actually took the laboratory to the field where we could get better samples. And we did. We got better maitrael. The cells lokoed better. The vessels looked better. Found the protein collagen. I mean, it was wonderful stuff. But it's not dinosaur DNA. So we have deoceisrvd that dinosaur DNA, and all DNA, just breaks down too fast. We're just not going to be able to do what they did in "Jurassic Park." We're not going to be able to make a dinosaur based on a dinosaur.

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But we _______ maybe — well, we thought maybe that the material was breaking down after it was coming out of the ground. We thought maybe it was deteriorating very fast. And so we _____ a laboratory in the back of an 18-wheeler trailer, and actually took the laboratory to the field where we could get better samples. And we did. We got better ________. The cells ______ better. The vessels looked better. Found the protein collagen. I mean, it was wonderful stuff. But it's not dinosaur DNA. So we have __________ that dinosaur DNA, and all DNA, just breaks down too fast. We're just not going to be able to do what they did in "Jurassic Park." We're not going to be able to make a dinosaur based on a dinosaur.

Solution


  1. looked
  2. thought
  3. discovered
  4. material
  5. built

Original Text


But we thought maybe — well, we thought maybe that the material was breaking down after it was coming out of the ground. We thought maybe it was deteriorating very fast. And so we built a laboratory in the back of an 18-wheeler trailer, and actually took the laboratory to the field where we could get better samples. And we did. We got better material. The cells looked better. The vessels looked better. Found the protein collagen. I mean, it was wonderful stuff. But it's not dinosaur DNA. So we have discovered that dinosaur DNA, and all DNA, just breaks down too fast. We're just not going to be able to do what they did in "Jurassic Park." We're not going to be able to make a dinosaur based on a dinosaur.

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Important Words


  1. based
  2. breaking
  3. breaks
  4. built
  5. cells
  6. collagen
  7. coming
  8. deteriorating
  9. dinosaur
  10. discovered
  11. dna
  12. fast
  13. field
  14. ground
  15. laboratory
  16. looked
  17. material
  18. park
  19. protein
  20. samples
  21. stuff
  22. thought
  23. trailer
  24. vessels
  25. wonderful