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Ian Wilmut, a Common card
Sir Ian Wilmut was an English embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Ian Wilmut quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ian Wilmut card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Wilmut was ______ OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.
Answer
appointed. Wilmut was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours. From the Ian Wilmut article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He was the leader of the research group that in ____ first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.
Answer
1990s. He was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly. From the Ian Wilmut 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.
- He was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.
- Wilmut was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.
- He, Keith Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka jointly received the 2008 Shaw Prize for Medicine and Life Sciences for their work on cell differentiation in mammals.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ian Wilmut article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ian Wilmut (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cathy Shaw, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
