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Podcast: Instant Trivia
Episode: Episode 1038 - Genetics - Surviving prohibition - Aye aye, captain - Makeup - Fearful quotes
Description: Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1038, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Genetics
1: "Genetics" as we use the word was coined in a 1905 letter by William Bateson, who popularized this monk's work.
(Gregor) Mendel.
2: The "23" of 23andme.com, a site tracing ancestry and personal genetic information, refers to pairs of these.
chromosomes.
3: Way faster than it used to be, it's the act of determining a series like ACAAGATGCC and with it your genetic blueprint.
sequencing a genome.
4: This test performed between the 15th and 18th weeks of pregnancy can detect fetal...