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Line of Gennari, a Common card
The line of Gennari is a band of myelinated axons that runs parallel to the surface of the cerebral cortex on the banks of the calcarine fissure in the occipital lobe.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 41
- DEF
- 22
- Power
- 63
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 2,700
Power 63 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Line of Gennari quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Line of Gennari card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is the name given to the enlarged external band of ______.
Answer
Baillarger. It is the name given to the enlarged external band of Baillarger. From the Line of Gennari article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The structure is named for its discoverer, Francesco Gennari, who first observed it in ____ as a medical student at the University of Parma.
Answer
1770s. The structure is named for its discoverer, Francesco Gennari, who first observed it in 1776 as a medical student at the University of Parma. From the Line of Gennari article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Qasimabad, Hyderabad. Qasimabad, Hyderabad 48 · Fawley Hill Railway 45 · Line of Gennari 41 · Grosbreuil 35 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This formation is visible to the naked eye as a white strip running through the cortical grey matter, and is the reason the V1 in primates is also referred to as the "striate cortex." The line of Gennari is due to dense axonal input from the thalamus to layer IV of visual cortex.
- It is the name given to the enlarged external band of Baillarger.
- The structure is named for its discoverer, Francesco Gennari, who first observed it in 1776 as a medical student at the University of Parma.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Line of Gennari article was read about 2,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 41 and blocks with 22: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Line of Gennari (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Henry Vandyke Carter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
