It's in your jeans... Mystery Cache

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Resetti: DNA helicase unzipped these jeans... Time to go.

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Hidden : 6/2/2012
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

They say that the genetic code can tell you anything about a person, like what eye colour, whether you may be prone to more disease and so on. So being a Biology Major (and especially after doing a course on Microbial Genomics) I decided to try and see if I could find some genes that might lead to us geocaching.

After much thought and carrying out a few experiments by using BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) on metagenomes, I actually found some sequences that might carry this geosense trait that leads many people to sniffing out caches all over the globe.

Finally I suddenly stumbled on the code I needed... It was only a short sequence but nevertheless it was the code I needed. As I was looking at the sequence on the computer it read: CAAAACGAC and then AACAUGCAG which was a very intriguing sequence indeed.

Now I had this I had the secrets to geocaching, but in order to interpret how much weight the results have you have to use the code to find the container which has instructions on how to implement geosense genes into any other human being.

Luckily the container can be found at: N 37° 45.XXX W 122° 30.XXX
Simply solve the blanks and you will find the key to the ultimate geosense genes.


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Nu, zrqvpngvbaf!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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