The Scientist - USA (2020-11)

11.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 11

Speaking of Science

QUOTES

ACROSS

7. Order, as of the nucleotide bases
   in a DNA molecule


8. Living in a state of nature


9. Shape of a DNA package


10. Produce offspring from stocks
    not related


11. Gregor Mendel’s middle name


12. Relating to the nose


13. Cell formed by the union of two
    gametes
    1 7. Of the vertebrae directly above
    the pelvis


14. Sudden variation in an inheritable
    characteristic


15. Niels who said “A physicist is just an
    atom’s way of looking at itself”


16. Number of classical elements or
    fundamental forces


17. Dangerous mistake in self-medication

DOWN

1. Subject of research by Masters
   and Johnson


2. Zero value; like a nonfunctional allele


3. Present at nativity, as a trait


4. DNA molecule carrying foreign genetic
   material into another cell


5. Short stature by dint of achondroplasia


6. Pigment rare among animals


7. Chemist Amedeo with a constant
   named for him


8. Stage in mitosis


9. Inventor in Menlo Park
   1 7. Connected, as traits inherited together


10. Aerial phenomena defying explanation


11. Anatomist’s study

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Yo u have a deeply polarized

electorate, an authoritarian

president who wants to use

the levers of government to

give himself an advantage

electorally and a pandemic in

the middle of the campaign.

—Daniel Carpenter, a professor of government at

Harvard University and an expert on the US Food

and Drug Administration, talking to The Washington

Post about the politicization of COVID-19 treatment

and vaccine development (October 11)

The federal government is paying

Dr. Bright, one of the nation’s

leading experts in pandemic

preparedness and response, and

an internationally recognized

expert in vaccine and diagnostic

development, to sit on his hands

during a global pandemic that has,

to date, killed one million people

globally and over 210,000 people

within the United States.

—An amended whistleblower complaint filed

by attorneys representing Rick Bright, an

immunologist who last month (October 6)

resigned from his post at the National

Institutes of Health

Note: The

answer grid will include every

letter of the alphabet.

BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON

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