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Asked by sonika to Jack, Jon, Tom, Yalda on 17 Mar 2013.
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Tom Branson answered on 15 Mar 2013:
Tough question! There are so many cool/useful/fun things to choose from.
If I had to pick one I thiink it would be the aeroplane, it makes travelling around the world so much easier and quicker.
But also the internet is fantastic.
And also simple things like a chair, I wouldn’t want to stand up all day!
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Jack Heal answered on 15 Mar 2013:
I reckon it has to be the internet, that’s an excellent suggestion. If not, then perhaps the printing press, an olden days version of the internet. It made learning much more accessible, ideas easier to spread and because of this led to many other inventions. (Like eventually, via many other things, to the internet!)
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anon answered on 17 Mar 2013:
Probably semiconductors, because without them we wouldn’t have electronics. The no. 2 best invention is jam.
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Jon Marles-Wright answered on 17 Mar 2013:
That’s a tough one. There are so many amazing inventions to name, but I’ll name one that I would say has most impact on my daily science. It has to be DNA sequencing, so much of modern biology would be almost impossible without it.
Before the human genome was sequenced, scientists had no idea how many proteins made up a person. We guessed anything between 10,000 and 100,000, and it turned out to be only about 25,000. The wheat genome, that was sequenced recently has over 60,000 genes in it.
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