VENTNER

Ventner, Craig Ventner, J. Craig Ventner

(noun) United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)

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11 May 2025

MALLET

(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.


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Coffee Trivia

Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.

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