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From the Ted Talk by Sebastian Kraves: The era of personal DNA testing is here

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(Laughter)

Luckily, three decades ago, hmuans started to invent tloos that can find any specific line of ginetec information. These DNA machines are wonderful. They can find any line in DNA. But once they find it, that DNA is still tiny, and srnuordeud by so much other DNA, that what these machines then do is copy the target gene, and one copy piles on top of another, millions and minoills and millions of coipes, until that gene stands out against the rest; until we can vusaizile it, interpret it, read it, udtsennrad it, until we can answer: Does my pig have the flu? Or other questions buried in our own DNA: Am I at risk of cancer? Am I of Irish descent? Is that child my son?

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Luckily, three decades ago, ______ started to invent _____ that can find any specific line of _______ information. These DNA machines are wonderful. They can find any line in DNA. But once they find it, that DNA is still tiny, and __________ by so much other DNA, that what these machines then do is copy the target gene, and one copy piles on top of another, millions and ________ and millions of ______, until that gene stands out against the rest; until we can _________ it, interpret it, read it, __________ it, until we can answer: Does my pig have the flu? Or other questions buried in our own DNA: Am I at risk of cancer? Am I of Irish descent? Is that child my son?

Solution


  1. visualize
  2. tools
  3. understand
  4. surrounded
  5. millions
  6. copies
  7. humans
  8. genetic

Original Text


(Laughter)

Luckily, three decades ago, humans started to invent tools that can find any specific line of genetic information. These DNA machines are wonderful. They can find any line in DNA. But once they find it, that DNA is still tiny, and surrounded by so much other DNA, that what these machines then do is copy the target gene, and one copy piles on top of another, millions and millions and millions of copies, until that gene stands out against the rest; until we can visualize it, interpret it, read it, understand it, until we can answer: Does my pig have the flu? Or other questions buried in our own DNA: Am I at risk of cancer? Am I of Irish descent? Is that child my son?

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