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Maclyn McCarty, a Common card
Maclyn McCarty was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940s and became the first to demonstrate that genes were made of DNA." He had worked at Rockefeller University "for more than 60 years."…
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 31
- Power
- 90
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,600
Power 90 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Maclyn McCarty quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Maclyn McCarty card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The team ______ for this feat is known as the Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment.
Answer
responsible. The team responsible for this feat is known as the Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment. From the Maclyn McCarty article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Maclyn McCarty. Maclyn McCarty 59 · Hedenbergite 54 · Arp 220 51 · Saignon 46 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.
- McCarty devoted his life as a physician-scientist to studying infectious disease organisms, and was best known for his part in the monumental discovery that DNA, rather than protein, constituted the chemical nature of a gene.
- Uncovering the molecular secret of the gene in question , that for the capsular polysaccharide of pneumococcal bacteria , led the way to studying heredity not only through genetics but also through chemistry.
- The team responsible for this feat is known as the Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Maclyn McCarty article was read about 4,600 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 31: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Maclyn McCarty (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marjorie McCarty, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
