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Carl Correns, a Common card
Carl Erich Correns was a German botanist and geneticist notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanist Hugo de Vries, and for his acknowledgment of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 83
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,100
Power 83 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Carl Correns quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Carl Correns card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Because of the special properties of ______, those experiments failed and Mendel dropped his studies on the subject.
Answer
Hieracium. Because of the special properties of Hieracium, those experiments failed and Mendel dropped his studies on the subject. From the Carl Correns article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kateryna Yushchenko. Kateryna Yushchenko 61 · Nikolay Dollezhal 56 · Carl Correns 53 · Nina Bari 49 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Correns was a student of Karl Nägeli, a renowned botanist with whom Mendel corresponded about his work with peas, and who subsequently engaged in a brief exchange of letters concerning reproducibility of the results in another species.
- Because of the special properties of Hieracium, those experiments failed and Mendel dropped his studies on the subject.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Carl Correns article was read about 6,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 53 and blocks with 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Carl Correns
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Carl Correns in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Joseph JongenCommon · Arts · ATK 53 DEF 30
- Kateryna YushchenkoCommon · Science · ATK 61 DEF 22
- Nina BariCommon · Science · ATK 49 DEF 34
- OctaviaCommon · Arts · ATK 49 DEF 34
- Imre MakoveczCommon · Arts · ATK 46 DEF 37
- Maud WatsonCommon · Society · ATK 56 DEF 27
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Carl Correns (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
