Shakespeare's in Your DNA

Today we read this article.  During our lesson, students learned the following:

Binary Code is the code that our computers "speak".  It's a series of 0s and 1s that computer scientists use to tell computers what to do!

DNA PCR or DNA polymerase chain reaction, is a process by which geneticists take a small amount of DNA and copy it so that they have a larger amount.  This makes it so that they can run a slew of tests on the DNA without needing a human to give a large sample.

new vocabulary:

redundant: an adjective that describes something that is repetitive.  "Redundancies" is the plural form.

cipher: a tool used to break or create a code.  

archives: data storage, often organized by type (example given: the library of congress holds our nation's important archives)

intact: something that is whole, or in its original form

sequence: the order of something

synthesis: to make or create something (example given: synthetic materials are man-made materials)

exponential: something that is multiplied by itself (example given: exponential growth refers to growth that doubles over a unit of time.  Specifically, if we have daily exponential growth, and we start with 2 of something, on day two we will have 4, the following day we will have 16, etc.)

decipher: a verb that means to break a code

waived: to pass on something (example given: waiving fees for an activity)

If you would like to learn more about binary code, you can do so here.

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