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From the Ted Talk by Barry Schuler: Genomics 101

Unscramble the Blue Letters

All we have to do is go around and sample, dig into the ground, find those bugs, sequence them, correlate them to the kinds of characteristics we like and don't like -- that's just a big dbaatsae -- and then fertilize. And then we utserdnnad what is terroir. So, some people will say, Oh, my God, are we playing God? Are we now, if we engineer organisms, are we playing God? And, you know, people would always ask James waostn -- he's not always the most ptcilaloliy correct guy ... (Laughter) ... and they would say, "Are, you know, are you playing God?" And he had the best answer I ever hraed to this question: "Well, somebody has to." (Laughter)

Open Cloze

All we have to do is go around and sample, dig into the ground, find those bugs, sequence them, correlate them to the kinds of characteristics we like and don't like -- that's just a big ________ -- and then fertilize. And then we __________ what is terroir. So, some people will say, Oh, my God, are we playing God? Are we now, if we engineer organisms, are we playing God? And, you know, people would always ask James ______ -- he's not always the most ___________ correct guy ... (Laughter) ... and they would say, "Are, you know, are you playing God?" And he had the best answer I ever _____ to this question: "Well, somebody has to." (Laughter)

Solution

  1. watson
  2. heard
  3. understand
  4. politically
  5. database

Original Text

All we have to do is go around and sample, dig into the ground, find those bugs, sequence them, correlate them to the kinds of characteristics we like and don't like -- that's just a big database -- and then fertilize. And then we understand what is terroir. So, some people will say, Oh, my God, are we playing God? Are we now, if we engineer organisms, are we playing God? And, you know, people would always ask James Watson -- he's not always the most politically correct guy ... (Laughter) ... and they would say, "Are, you know, are you playing God?" And he had the best answer I ever heard to this question: "Well, somebody has to." (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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carbon dioxide 3
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Important Words

  1. answer
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  3. bugs
  4. characteristics
  5. correct
  6. correlate
  7. database
  8. dig
  9. engineer
  10. fertilize
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  17. kinds
  18. laughter
  19. organisms
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  22. politically
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  24. sequence
  25. terroir
  26. understand
  27. watson