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From the Ted Talk by Lynn Rothschild: The living tech we need to support human life on other planets

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What about cstmhreiy? Biology does chemistry for us on Earth, and again has for lliatelry tusoanhds of years. I bet virtually everyone in this room has eeatn something today that has been made by bogoily doing chemistry. Let me give you a big hint there.

What about another idea? What about using DNA itself to make a wire? Because again, we're trying to miniaturize everything. DNA is really cheap. Strawberries have a gazillion amount of DNA. You know, you could take a strawberry with you, isolate the DNA, and one of my students has freigud out a way to take DNA and tweak it a little bit so that you can incorporate silver atoms in very sicpifec places, thus making an electrical wire. How cool is that?

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What about _________? Biology does chemistry for us on Earth, and again has for _________ _________ of years. I bet virtually everyone in this room has _____ something today that has been made by _______ doing chemistry. Let me give you a big hint there.

What about another idea? What about using DNA itself to make a wire? Because again, we're trying to miniaturize everything. DNA is really cheap. Strawberries have a gazillion amount of DNA. You know, you could take a strawberry with you, isolate the DNA, and one of my students has _______ out a way to take DNA and tweak it a little bit so that you can incorporate silver atoms in very ________ places, thus making an electrical wire. How cool is that?

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  1. literally
  2. thousands
  3. figured
  4. specific
  5. biology
  6. chemistry
  7. eaten

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What about chemistry? Biology does chemistry for us on Earth, and again has for literally thousands of years. I bet virtually everyone in this room has eaten something today that has been made by biology doing chemistry. Let me give you a big hint there.

What about another idea? What about using DNA itself to make a wire? Because again, we're trying to miniaturize everything. DNA is really cheap. Strawberries have a gazillion amount of DNA. You know, you could take a strawberry with you, isolate the DNA, and one of my students has figured out a way to take DNA and tweak it a little bit so that you can incorporate silver atoms in very specific places, thus making an electrical wire. How cool is that?

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