All you need then is a powerful computer program to match up the overlaps, and you can reconstruct the original order of the base pairs.

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That explains the significance of the red ball: it makes the odds of winning the pot less likely since you have to match all of the white balls (generally from 1 to 50) plus choose the correct red ball (out of a different set of balls, generally 1 to 35).

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But unless your employer offers no match at all, financial planners strongly recommend that you sock away savings at least up the maximum level that your employer is willing to match--otherwise you'll end up leaving "free money" on the table.

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Only identical twins share genetic profiles on all 20 alleles, so if you get a perfect match between the DNA you find at the scene and the DNA database profile, you have very strong evidence that the person in the database committed the crime.

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But most of the kids you see playing the Quidditch match don't exist at all - they're created in the computer.

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"If you play on the high level always, all the time in the match, I think that's really exhausting, " Brands said.

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All of this makes for some fairly comfortable mousing options, but as with most one-size-fit-all products (also see: baseball caps) you may not find an exact match.

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For all your analysis and practice you're not programmed and when it comes to the match you react to what's in front of you, and that is what England are failing to do.

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Not all of them affected a match's outcome, but with three points at stake in every game, you wonder how the league table might have been affected if each call had been made correctly.

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