full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Michael Archer: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

Unscramble the Blue Letters

OK. What could we do with this stuff? Well, George Church, in his book, "Regenesis," has mneiteond many of the techniques that are rapidly acnnvdaig to work with fraentmegd DNA. We would hope that we'll be able to get that DNA back into a vbiale form, and then, much like we've done with the Lazarus pecrjot, get that stuff into an egg of a host species. It has to be a different species. What could it be? Why couldn't it be a Tasmanian devil? They're related, distantly, to thylacines. And then the Tasmanian devil is going to pop a thylacine out the south end.

Open Cloze

OK. What could we do with this stuff? Well, George Church, in his book, "Regenesis," has _________ many of the techniques that are rapidly _________ to work with __________ DNA. We would hope that we'll be able to get that DNA back into a ______ form, and then, much like we've done with the Lazarus _______, get that stuff into an egg of a host species. It has to be a different species. What could it be? Why couldn't it be a Tasmanian devil? They're related, distantly, to thylacines. And then the Tasmanian devil is going to pop a thylacine out the south end.

Solution

  1. mentioned
  2. advancing
  3. viable
  4. fragmented
  5. project

Original Text

OK. What could we do with this stuff? Well, George Church, in his book, "Regenesis," has mentioned many of the techniques that are rapidly advancing to work with fragmented DNA. We would hope that we'll be able to get that DNA back into a viable form, and then, much like we've done with the Lazarus Project, get that stuff into an egg of a host species. It has to be a different species. What could it be? Why couldn't it be a Tasmanian devil? They're related, distantly, to thylacines. And then the Tasmanian devil is going to pop a thylacine out the south end.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
million years 3
thylacine dna 3
thylacine project 2
cell walls 2
dead nucleus 2
extinct frog 2
live sheep 2
extinct species 2
tasmanian devil 2
key question 2

Important Words

  1. advancing
  2. book
  3. church
  4. devil
  5. distantly
  6. dna
  7. egg
  8. form
  9. fragmented
  10. george
  11. hope
  12. host
  13. lazarus
  14. mentioned
  15. pop
  16. project
  17. rapidly
  18. related
  19. south
  20. species
  21. stuff
  22. tasmanian
  23. techniques
  24. thylacine
  25. thylacines
  26. viable
  27. work