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From the Ted Talk by Floyd E. Romesberg: The radical possibilities of man-made DNA
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The next thing we neeedd to do was find a way to get X and Y into cells, and eventually we found that a protein that does something similar in algae worked in our bacteria. So the final thing that we needed to do was to show that with X and Y provided, clles could grow and divide and hold on to X and Y in their DNA. Everything we had done up to then took longer than I had hoped — I am actually a really impatient proesn — but this, the most impnatrot step, worked faster than I dreamed, basically immediately.
Open Cloze
The next thing we ______ to do was find a way to get X and Y into cells, and eventually we found that a protein that does something similar in algae worked in our bacteria. So the final thing that we needed to do was to show that with X and Y provided, _____ could grow and divide and hold on to X and Y in their DNA. Everything we had done up to then took longer than I had hoped — I am actually a really impatient ______ — but this, the most _________ step, worked faster than I dreamed, basically immediately.
Solution
- person
- needed
- cells
- important
Original Text
The next thing we needed to do was find a way to get X and Y into cells, and eventually we found that a protein that does something similar in algae worked in our bacteria. So the final thing that we needed to do was to show that with X and Y provided, cells could grow and divide and hold on to X and Y in their DNA. Everything we had done up to then took longer than I had hoped — I am actually a really impatient person — but this, the most important step, worked faster than I dreamed, basically immediately.
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