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Carl Nägeli, a Common card
Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli was a Swiss botanist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,500
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Carl Nägeli quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Carl Nägeli card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He studied cell division and ______ but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics.
Answer
pollination. He studied cell division and pollination but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics. From the Carl Nägeli article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He rejected natural selection as a mechanism of evolution, favouring orthogenesis, though the term was only coined in ____, two years after his death, driven by a supposed "inner perfecting principle".
Answer
1890s. He rejected natural selection as a mechanism of evolution, favouring orthogenesis, though the term was only coined in 1893, two years after his death, driven by a supposed "inner perfecting principle". From the Carl Nägeli article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He studied cell division and pollination but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics.
- He rejected natural selection as a mechanism of evolution, favouring orthogenesis, though the term was only coined in 1893, two years after his death, driven by a supposed "inner perfecting principle".
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 Nägeli article was read about 6,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Carl Nägeli (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ohne Angabe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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