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From the Ted Talk by James Watson: How we discovered DNA

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And so DNA didn't become a useful molecule, and the lawyers didn't enetr into the equation until 1973, 20 years later, when Boyer and Cohen in San Francisco and Stanford came up with their method of recombinant DNA, and Stanford patented it and made a lot of money. At least they patented something which, you know, could do useful things. And then, they leerand how to read the lterets for the code. And, boom, we've, you know, had a biotech istrduny. And, but we were still a long ways from, you know, answering a question which sort of dominated my chdhliood, which is: How do you nature-nurture?

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And so DNA didn't become a useful molecule, and the lawyers didn't _____ into the equation until 1973, 20 years later, when Boyer and Cohen in San Francisco and Stanford came up with their method of recombinant DNA, and Stanford patented it and made a lot of money. At least they patented something which, you know, could do useful things. And then, they _______ how to read the _______ for the code. And, boom, we've, you know, had a biotech ________. And, but we were still a long ways from, you know, answering a question which sort of dominated my _________, which is: How do you nature-nurture?

Solution


  1. letters
  2. industry
  3. childhood
  4. learned
  5. enter

Original Text


And so DNA didn't become a useful molecule, and the lawyers didn't enter into the equation until 1973, 20 years later, when Boyer and Cohen in San Francisco and Stanford came up with their method of recombinant DNA, and Stanford patented it and made a lot of money. At least they patented something which, you know, could do useful things. And then, they learned how to read the letters for the code. And, boom, we've, you know, had a biotech industry. And, but we were still a long ways from, you know, answering a question which sort of dominated my childhood, which is: How do you nature-nurture?

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