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From the Ted Talk by Craig Venter: Watch me unveil "synthetic life"

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So the code that Mike mogtanue and the team developed actually puts frequent stop codons, so it's a different alphabet but allows us to use the entire English alphabet with piouuctantn and numbers. So, there are four major watermarks all over 1,000 base pairs of genetic code. The first one actually contains within it this code for interpreting the rest of the gnieetc code. So in the remaining ioanrtfiomn, in the waetrrmaks, contain the names of, I think it's 46 different authors and key contributors to getting the project to this stage. And we also bulit in a website address so that if somebody decodes the code within the code within the code, they can send an email to that address. So it's clearly distinguishable from any other seeipcs, having 46 names in it, its own web address. And we added three quotations, because with the first genome we were criticized for not trying to say something more pourfond than just signing the work.

Open Cloze


So the code that Mike ________ and the team developed actually puts frequent stop codons, so it's a different alphabet but allows us to use the entire English alphabet with ___________ and numbers. So, there are four major watermarks all over 1,000 base pairs of genetic code. The first one actually contains within it this code for interpreting the rest of the _______ code. So in the remaining ___________, in the __________, contain the names of, I think it's 46 different authors and key contributors to getting the project to this stage. And we also _____ in a website address so that if somebody decodes the code within the code within the code, they can send an email to that address. So it's clearly distinguishable from any other _______, having 46 names in it, its own web address. And we added three quotations, because with the first genome we were criticized for not trying to say something more ________ than just signing the work.

Solution


  1. information
  2. species
  3. watermarks
  4. punctuation
  5. profound
  6. montague
  7. built
  8. genetic

Original Text


So the code that Mike Montague and the team developed actually puts frequent stop codons, so it's a different alphabet but allows us to use the entire English alphabet with punctuation and numbers. So, there are four major watermarks all over 1,000 base pairs of genetic code. The first one actually contains within it this code for interpreting the rest of the genetic code. So in the remaining information, in the watermarks, contain the names of, I think it's 46 different authors and key contributors to getting the project to this stage. And we also built in a website address so that if somebody decodes the code within the code within the code, they can send an email to that address. So it's clearly distinguishable from any other species, having 46 names in it, its own web address. And we added three quotations, because with the first genome we were criticized for not trying to say something more profound than just signing the work.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
genetic code 4
smallest genome 4
mycoplasma genitalium 3
bacterial chromosome 3
synthetic dna 3
team developed 3
bacterial cell 2
recipient cell 2
slow growth 2
bacterial chromosomes 2
base pairs 2
writing messages 2
technical side 2


Important Words


  1. added
  2. address
  3. alphabet
  4. authors
  5. base
  6. built
  7. code
  8. codons
  9. contributors
  10. criticized
  11. decodes
  12. developed
  13. distinguishable
  14. email
  15. english
  16. entire
  17. frequent
  18. genetic
  19. genome
  20. information
  21. interpreting
  22. key
  23. major
  24. mike
  25. montague
  26. names
  27. numbers
  28. pairs
  29. profound
  30. project
  31. punctuation
  32. puts
  33. quotations
  34. remaining
  35. rest
  36. send
  37. signing
  38. species
  39. stage
  40. stop
  41. team
  42. watermarks
  43. web
  44. website
  45. work