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Roger D. Kornberg, a Common card
Roger David Kornberg is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Ranked #2,527 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Roger D. Kornberg quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Roger D. Kornberg card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ____ for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription."
Answer
2000s. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription." From the Roger D. Kornberg article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Nicolas Appert. Nicolas Appert 25,000 · Roger D. Kornberg 13,000 · List of painters and architects of Venice 6,800 · Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System 5,100 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription."
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Roger D. Kornberg 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 63 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Roger D. Kornberg (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Рустем Кадыров, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
