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From the Ted Talk by Juan Enriquez: The life code that will reshape the future

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I'm supposed to scare you, because it's about fear, right? And you should be really afraid, but not for the reasons why you think you should be. You should be really afraid that — if we stick up the first slide on this thing — there we go — that you're missing out. Because if you spend this week thinking about Iraq and thinking about Bush and thinking about the stock market, you're going to miss one of the greatest adventures that we've ever been on. And this is what this adventure's really about. This is clyazlisetrd DNA. Every life form on this pnlaet — every insect, every bacteria, every plant, every animal, every hmaun, every politician — (Laughter) is coded in that stuff. And if you want to take a single crystal of DNA, it looks like that. And we're just beginning to understand this sutff. And this is the single most exciting adventure that we have ever been on. It's the single greatest mpaipng pcjeort we've ever been on. If you think that the mapping of America's made a difference, or landing on the moon, or this other stuff, it's the map of ourselves and the map of every plant and every insect and every bacteria that really makes a difference. And it's bnienngig to tell us a lot about eoulotivn. (Laughter)

Open Cloze


I'm supposed to scare you, because it's about fear, right? And you should be really afraid, but not for the reasons why you think you should be. You should be really afraid that — if we stick up the first slide on this thing — there we go — that you're missing out. Because if you spend this week thinking about Iraq and thinking about Bush and thinking about the stock market, you're going to miss one of the greatest adventures that we've ever been on. And this is what this adventure's really about. This is ____________ DNA. Every life form on this ______ — every insect, every bacteria, every plant, every animal, every _____, every politician — (Laughter) is coded in that stuff. And if you want to take a single crystal of DNA, it looks like that. And we're just beginning to understand this _____. And this is the single most exciting adventure that we have ever been on. It's the single greatest _______ _______ we've ever been on. If you think that the mapping of America's made a difference, or landing on the moon, or this other stuff, it's the map of ourselves and the map of every plant and every insect and every bacteria that really makes a difference. And it's _________ to tell us a lot about _________. (Laughter)

Solution


  1. human
  2. planet
  3. beginning
  4. evolution
  5. stuff
  6. mapping
  7. crystallized
  8. project

Original Text


I'm supposed to scare you, because it's about fear, right? And you should be really afraid, but not for the reasons why you think you should be. You should be really afraid that — if we stick up the first slide on this thing — there we go — that you're missing out. Because if you spend this week thinking about Iraq and thinking about Bush and thinking about the stock market, you're going to miss one of the greatest adventures that we've ever been on. And this is what this adventure's really about. This is crystallized DNA. Every life form on this planet — every insect, every bacteria, every plant, every animal, every human, every politician — (Laughter) is coded in that stuff. And if you want to take a single crystal of DNA, it looks like that. And we're just beginning to understand this stuff. And this is the single most exciting adventure that we have ever been on. It's the single greatest mapping project we've ever been on. If you think that the mapping of America's made a difference, or landing on the moon, or this other stuff, it's the map of ourselves and the map of every plant and every insect and every bacteria that really makes a difference. And it's beginning to tell us a lot about evolution. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
gene code 9
life forms 3
entire gene 3
single greatest 2
billion base 2
base pairs 2
white europeans 2
population pressure 2
amoeba dubia 2
interesting questions 2
sulfuric acid 2
give birth 2
genomics company 2
genomically literate 2
literate world 2
productive nation 2
silicon valley 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
billion base pairs 2
entire gene code 2
genomically literate world 2

Important Words


  1. adventure
  2. adventures
  3. afraid
  4. animal
  5. bacteria
  6. beginning
  7. bush
  8. coded
  9. crystal
  10. crystallized
  11. difference
  12. dna
  13. evolution
  14. exciting
  15. fear
  16. form
  17. greatest
  18. human
  19. insect
  20. iraq
  21. landing
  22. laughter
  23. life
  24. lot
  25. map
  26. mapping
  27. market
  28. missing
  29. moon
  30. planet
  31. plant
  32. politician
  33. project
  34. reasons
  35. scare
  36. single
  37. slide
  38. spend
  39. stick
  40. stock
  41. stuff
  42. supposed
  43. thinking
  44. understand
  45. week