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Matthew Meselson, a Common card
Matthew Stanley Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist currently at Harvard University, known for his demonstration, with Franklin Stahl, of semi-conservative DNA replication.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Matthew Meselson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Matthew Meselson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In addition, Meselson, François Jacob, and Sydney Brenner discovered the existence of ______ RNA in 1961.
Answer
messenger. In addition, Meselson, François Jacob, and Sydney Brenner discovered the existence of messenger RNA in 1961. From the Matthew Meselson article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
After completing his Ph.D. under Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, Meselson became a Professor at Harvard University in ____, where he has remained today as Professor of the Natural Sciences.
Answer
1960s. After completing his Ph.D. under Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, Meselson became a Professor at Harvard University in 1960, where he has remained today as Professor of the Natural Sciences. From the Matthew Meselson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Matthew Meselson. Matthew Meselson 71 · Boiler 67 · Al-Baha Province 64 · Koichi Wakata 61 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.
- After completing his Ph.D. under Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, Meselson became a Professor at Harvard University in 1960, where he has remained today as Professor of the Natural Sciences.
- In the famous Meselson–Stahl experiment of 1958 he and Frank Stahl demonstrated through nitrogen isotope labeling that DNA is replicated semi-conservatively.
- In addition, Meselson, François Jacob, and Sydney Brenner discovered the existence of messenger RNA in 1961.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Matthew Meselson article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Matthew Meselson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Janet Montgomery, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
