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Aziz Sancar, an Uncommon card
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 137
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 35,000
Power 137 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Aziz Sancar quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Aziz Sancar card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He has made ______ on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.
Answer
contributions. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field. From the Aziz Sancar article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
Answer
2010s. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. From the Aziz Sancar article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
- He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.
- Sancar is currently the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Aziz Sancar article was read about 35,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Aziz Sancar (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
