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From the Ted Talk by Dan Gibson: How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

OK, a genome is a complete set of DNA within an oarngsim. Following the Human gnemoe Project in 2003, which was an international effort to identify the complete genetic blueprint of a hmaun being, a genomics revolution happened. Scientists started mastering the techniques for reading DNA. In oedrr to dmnietree the order of the As, Cs, Ts and Gs within an organism. But my job was far different. I needed to master the tnihuqeecs for writing DNA. Like an author of a book, this started out as writing short sentences, or sneqceues of DNA code, but this soon turned into writing paragraphs and then full-on novels of DNA code, to make important biological instructions for proteins and living cells. Living cells are nature's most efficient machines at making new ptuordcs, accounting for the pdourotcin of 25 percent of the ttoal pharmaceutical market, which is billions of dollars.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

OK, a genome is a complete set of DNA within an ________. Following the Human ______ Project in 2003, which was an international effort to identify the complete genetic blueprint of a _____ being, a genomics revolution happened. Scientists started mastering the techniques for reading DNA. In _____ to _________ the order of the As, Cs, Ts and Gs within an organism. But my job was far different. I needed to master the __________ for writing DNA. Like an author of a book, this started out as writing short sentences, or _________ of DNA code, but this soon turned into writing paragraphs and then full-on novels of DNA code, to make important biological instructions for proteins and living cells. Living cells are nature's most efficient machines at making new ________, accounting for the __________ of 25 percent of the _____ pharmaceutical market, which is billions of dollars.

Solution


  1. genome
  2. human
  3. techniques
  4. order
  5. total
  6. sequences
  7. organism
  8. determine
  9. production
  10. products

Original Text


(Laughter)

OK, a genome is a complete set of DNA within an organism. Following the Human Genome Project in 2003, which was an international effort to identify the complete genetic blueprint of a human being, a genomics revolution happened. Scientists started mastering the techniques for reading DNA. In order to determine the order of the As, Cs, Ts and Gs within an organism. But my job was far different. I needed to master the techniques for writing DNA. Like an author of a book, this started out as writing short sentences, or sequences of DNA code, but this soon turned into writing paragraphs and then full-on novels of DNA code, to make important biological instructions for proteins and living cells. Living cells are nature's most efficient machines at making new products, accounting for the production of 25 percent of the total pharmaceutical market, which is billions of dollars.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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digital information 2
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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
flu vaccine manufacturing 2
vaccine manufacturing process 2
flu vaccine instructions 2

Important Words


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