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From the Ted Talk by Paul Rothemund: Playing with DNA that self-assembles

Unscramble the Blue Letters

It's what happens in proteins. When this amino-acid sequence gets pucnrenood as atmos, these little letters are sticky for each other. It collapses into a three-dimensional shpae that turns it into a nanomachine that actually cuts DNA. The interesting thing is that if you change the sequence, you change the three-dimensional folding. You get, now, a DNA stapler, instead. These are the kind of molecular programs we want to be able to write. The problem is, we don't know the mhicnae language of proteins or have a compiler for proteins.

Open Cloze

It's what happens in proteins. When this amino-acid sequence gets __________ as _____, these little letters are sticky for each other. It collapses into a three-dimensional _____ that turns it into a nanomachine that actually cuts DNA. The interesting thing is that if you change the sequence, you change the three-dimensional folding. You get, now, a DNA stapler, instead. These are the kind of molecular programs we want to be able to write. The problem is, we don't know the _______ language of proteins or have a compiler for proteins.

Solution

  1. atoms
  2. pronounced
  3. machine
  4. shape

Original Text

It's what happens in proteins. When this amino-acid sequence gets pronounced as atoms, these little letters are sticky for each other. It collapses into a three-dimensional shape that turns it into a nanomachine that actually cuts DNA. The interesting thing is that if you change the sequence, you change the three-dimensional folding. You get, now, a DNA stapler, instead. These are the kind of molecular programs we want to be able to write. The problem is, we don't know the machine language of proteins or have a compiler for proteins.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
long strand 7
molecular spells 2
dna sequences 2

Important Words

  1. atoms
  2. change
  3. collapses
  4. compiler
  5. cuts
  6. dna
  7. folding
  8. interesting
  9. kind
  10. language
  11. letters
  12. machine
  13. molecular
  14. nanomachine
  15. problem
  16. programs
  17. pronounced
  18. proteins
  19. sequence
  20. shape
  21. stapler
  22. sticky
  23. turns
  24. write