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From the Ted Talk by Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk"

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Finally, I wanted to show you — this is my gang at Princeton, New Jersey. Everything I told you about was discovered by someone in that picture. And I hope when you learn things, like about how the natural world works — I just want to say that whenever you read something in the newspaper or you hear some talk about something rcuudoiils in the natural world, it was done by a cilhd. So science is done by that demographic. All of those people are between 20 and 30 years old, and they are the engnie that drives sneifticic discovery in this country. And it's a really lucky dopghmeiarc to work with.

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Finally, I wanted to show you — this is my gang at Princeton, New Jersey. Everything I told you about was discovered by someone in that picture. And I hope when you learn things, like about how the natural world works — I just want to say that whenever you read something in the newspaper or you hear some talk about something __________ in the natural world, it was done by a _____. So science is done by that demographic. All of those people are between 20 and 30 years old, and they are the ______ that drives __________ discovery in this country. And it's a really lucky ___________ to work with.

Solution


  1. demographic
  2. engine
  3. ridiculous
  4. child
  5. scientific

Original Text


Finally, I wanted to show you — this is my gang at Princeton, New Jersey. Everything I told you about was discovered by someone in that picture. And I hope when you learn things, like about how the natural world works — I just want to say that whenever you read something in the newspaper or you hear some talk about something ridiculous in the natural world, it was done by a child. So science is done by that demographic. All of those people are between 20 and 30 years old, and they are the engine that drives scientific discovery in this country. And it's a really lucky demographic to work with.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
vibrio fischeri 6
bacterial cells 3
cell number 3
making light 3
interspecies communication 3
special property 2
human cells 2
chemical language 2
bacterial cell 2
red triangles 2
squid lives 2
molecular biology 2
quorum sensing 2
single species 2
intraspecies communication 2
kill bacteria 2
communication system 2
pathogenic bacterium 2


Important Words


  1. child
  2. country
  3. demographic
  4. discovered
  5. discovery
  6. drives
  7. engine
  8. finally
  9. gang
  10. hear
  11. hope
  12. jersey
  13. learn
  14. lucky
  15. natural
  16. newspaper
  17. people
  18. picture
  19. princeton
  20. read
  21. ridiculous
  22. science
  23. scientific
  24. show
  25. talk
  26. told
  27. wanted
  28. work
  29. works
  30. world
  31. years