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Flash Mind Reader Game! |
At times it is hard to figure out how something works, and some things seem to have no explanation at all! Our genes and how they work used to be like that. Genes are the instructions (the marching orders) that direct our growth and determine what we look like and how we react to things in our environment. But we could not see those "instructions" just by looking at our bodies, so genes and their effect on our health remained a mystery for many years. But now scientists are "solving" that mystery for us.
The "Flash Mind Reader" game below is a mystery too -- it seems to work magically, unless you think about it mathematically (that's a hint!). And after you try it a few times and figure out how it works, please also take a moment to learn more about your genes.