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Sydney Brenner, an Uncommon card
Sydney Brenner was a South African biologist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 146
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 146 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Sydney Brenner quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Sydney Brenner card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in ______ or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston.
Answer
Physiology. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. From the Sydney Brenner article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Firefighting. Firefighting 78 · Sydney Brenner 75 · Computer cluster 72 · Broom 68 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Broom. Broom 47,000 · Sydney Brenner 30,000 · Calorimetry 20,000 · Blebbistatin 3,200 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston.
- Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.
- He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology, and founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, United States.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Sydney Brenner article was read about 30,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Sydney Brenner
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Sydney Brenner (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : OIST from Onna Village, Japan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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