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From the Ted Talk by Paul Rothemund: DNA folding, in detail

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, what's great about this is anybody can do this. And so, I got this in the mail about a year after I did this, unsolicited. Anyone know what this is? What is it? It's China, right? So, what happened is, a graduate student in cnhia, Lulu Qian, did a garet job. She wrote all her own satworfe to design and built this DNA origami, a beautiful rendition of China, which even has Taiwan, and you can see it's sort of on the world's shortest leash, right? (Laughter) So, this works really well and you can make patterns as well as shapes, OK? And you can make a map of the Americas and slepl DNA with DNA.

Open Cloze


Now, what's great about this is anybody can do this. And so, I got this in the mail about a year after I did this, unsolicited. Anyone know what this is? What is it? It's China, right? So, what happened is, a graduate student in _____, Lulu Qian, did a _____ job. She wrote all her own ________ to design and built this DNA origami, a beautiful rendition of China, which even has Taiwan, and you can see it's sort of on the world's shortest leash, right? (Laughter) So, this works really well and you can make patterns as well as shapes, OK? And you can make a map of the Americas and _____ DNA with DNA.

Solution


  1. china
  2. spell
  3. software
  4. great

Original Text


Now, what's great about this is anybody can do this. And so, I got this in the mail about a year after I did this, unsolicited. Anyone know what this is? What is it? It's China, right? So, what happened is, a graduate student in China, Lulu Qian, did a great job. She wrote all her own software to design and built this DNA origami, a beautiful rendition of China, which even has Taiwan, and you can see it's sort of on the world's shortest leash, right? (Laughter) So, this works really well and you can make patterns as well as shapes, OK? And you can make a map of the Americas and spell DNA with DNA.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
dna origami 12
dna strands 8
long strand 6
computer program 5
big questions 4
computer science 3
double helix 3
short strands 3
computer programs 2
molecular programs 2
molecular programming 2
cell phone 2
electronic computer 2
computers building 2
computer scientist 2
molecular program 2


Important Words


  1. americas
  2. beautiful
  3. built
  4. china
  5. design
  6. dna
  7. graduate
  8. great
  9. happened
  10. job
  11. laughter
  12. leash
  13. lulu
  14. mail
  15. map
  16. origami
  17. patterns
  18. qian
  19. rendition
  20. shapes
  21. shortest
  22. software
  23. sort
  24. spell
  25. student
  26. taiwan
  27. unsolicited
  28. works
  29. wrote
  30. year