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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on November 12, 2009, 08:31:22 AM
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Mitochondrial references aside, I don't have much good to say about this Thursday offering except that I cannot believe the abbreviation for turnpike is TPKE. Why would a silent, final e ever be used in an abbreviation? Yet TPKE is in dictionaries, and I know I have seen it used in the real world. :-\
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I have an issue with 64A. A fingerprint is NOT a DNA sequence. Clue-FAIL.
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You're right, but DNA is sometimes referred to as a "human fingerprint." That is probably so because, like fingerprits, each person's DNA is said to be different; and, like fingerprints, DNA strands are used to identify people.