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From the Ted Talk by Craig Venter: Watch me unveil "synthetic life"

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And some of you have noticed that we switched from the smallest geomne to a much larger one. And we can walk through the raseons for that, but basically the small cell took on the order of one to two months to get rsetuls from, whereas the larger, faster-growing cell takes only two days. So there's only so many cycles we could go through in a year at six weeks per cycle. And you should know that basically 99, probably 99 percent plus of our experiments faelid. So this was a debugging, problem-solving scenario from the beginning because there was no recipe of how to get there.

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And some of you have noticed that we switched from the smallest ______ to a much larger one. And we can walk through the _______ for that, but basically the small cell took on the order of one to two months to get _______ from, whereas the larger, faster-growing cell takes only two days. So there's only so many cycles we could go through in a year at six weeks per cycle. And you should know that basically 99, probably 99 percent plus of our experiments ______. So this was a debugging, problem-solving scenario from the beginning because there was no recipe of how to get there.

Solution

  1. reasons
  2. failed
  3. genome
  4. results

Original Text

And some of you have noticed that we switched from the smallest genome to a much larger one. And we can walk through the reasons for that, but basically the small cell took on the order of one to two months to get results from, whereas the larger, faster-growing cell takes only two days. So there's only so many cycles we could go through in a year at six weeks per cycle. And you should know that basically 99, probably 99 percent plus of our experiments failed. So this was a debugging, problem-solving scenario from the beginning because there was no recipe of how to get there.

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