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From the Ted Talk by Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?

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We now have these amazing tools to allow us to explore the unseen world — things like deep siceqnnueg, which allow us to do much more than just skim the scufare and look at individual genomes from a particular species, but to look at entire metagenomes, the communities of tiemeng microorganisms in, on and around us and to document all of the genetic iiformatnon in these sieecps. We can apply these techniques to things from soil to skin and everything in between.

In my organization we now do this on a regular basis to identify the causes of outbreaks that are unclear exactly what causes them.

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We now have these amazing tools to allow us to explore the unseen world — things like deep __________, which allow us to do much more than just skim the _______ and look at individual genomes from a particular species, but to look at entire metagenomes, the communities of _______ microorganisms in, on and around us and to document all of the genetic ___________ in these _______. We can apply these techniques to things from soil to skin and everything in between.

In my organization we now do this on a regular basis to identify the causes of outbreaks that are unclear exactly what causes them.

Solution


  1. surface
  2. information
  3. species
  4. sequencing
  5. teeming

Original Text


We now have these amazing tools to allow us to explore the unseen world — things like deep sequencing, which allow us to do much more than just skim the surface and look at individual genomes from a particular species, but to look at entire metagenomes, the communities of teeming microorganisms in, on and around us and to document all of the genetic information in these species. We can apply these techniques to things from soil to skin and everything in between.

In my organization we now do this on a regular basis to identify the causes of outbreaks that are unclear exactly what causes them.

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Important Words


  1. amazing
  2. apply
  3. basis
  4. communities
  5. deep
  6. document
  7. entire
  8. explore
  9. genetic
  10. genomes
  11. identify
  12. individual
  13. information
  14. metagenomes
  15. microorganisms
  16. organization
  17. outbreaks
  18. regular
  19. sequencing
  20. skim
  21. skin
  22. soil
  23. species
  24. surface
  25. techniques
  26. teeming
  27. tools
  28. unclear
  29. unseen
  30. world