The story begins early in the morning, around 4am, with the rise of the first simple, single-cell organisms.

在清晨4点左右，故事伴随着第一个简单的单胞生的出现开始。

Long ago, Earth's oceans were filled with purple single-celled organisms called archaea.

很久以前，地球的满是单胞的紫色生，叫做古生菌。

Candida is a type of fungi, a single celled member of the yeast family.

念珠菌是一种真菌，是酵母家族的单胞成员。

Viruses are really small, about 100 times smaller than a single cell of bacteria.

病毒真的很小，大约比菌的单胞小100倍。

Life on Earth started with single-celled bacteria about 4 billion years ago.

地球上的生命始于大约40亿年前的单胞菌。

A single-cell organism with its own branch on the tree of life.

在生命之树上有自己分支的单胞有机体。

It's even thought that fungi and animals may share a similar single-celled ancestor.

甚至于认为真菌和动有相似的单胞类祖先。

So a bigger single cell can't catch enough stuff to feed all its volume.

所以一个更大的单胞无法获取足够的东西来养活它所有的体。

Imagine you're one of those more complex single-celled organisms, and you are hangry.

想象一下，你是那些更复杂的单胞生之一，你饿了。

Meanwhile, the general blueprint of single-celled organisms has hardly changed in 3 billion years.

与此同时，单胞生的总体蓝图在 30 亿年中几乎没有变化。

But the team did see single-celled organisms called ciliates in the sick urchins.

但该调查小组确实在患病的胆中发现了名为纤毛虫的单胞生。

From the very first cells, to you watching this now.

从最最原初的那个单胞开始，到现在观看这个视频的你。

That's because they evolved from the simplest form of life, a single-celled organism, independently of animals like us.

这是因为它们是从最简单的单胞生进化而来的，独立于我们这样的动。

Tiny living things like bacteria or other single-celled organisms reproduce by creating exact copies of themselves.

像菌或其他单胞生这样的微小生会通过精确复制自己来进行繁殖。

But instead of having seeds, these plants reproduce by releasing tiny, single-celled spores.

但是这些没有种子，而是通过释放微小的单胞孢子进行繁殖。

Mutation, right, took us single-celled organisms to the dominant form of- - You know what?

突变，对，把我们的单胞生带到了主导形式——你知道吗？

Researchers isolated and grew an intriguing single-celled microorganism in the lab from sediment off the central islands coast.

研究人员在日本中部岛屿岸附近的沉中发现了一种迷人的单胞微生，并在实验室分离并培育出了它。

About 3.7 billion years ago, single-celled  microbes, called prokaryotes, first evolved on our planet.

大约 37 亿年前，称为原核生的单胞微生首先在我们的星球上进化。

Bacteria, single-celled organisms called archaea, plants, and even other animals can all survive drying up.

菌、被称为古菌的单胞生、，甚至其他动都可以在干涸的环境中存活下来。

Industry medicine and the definition of life itself are all being changed by single-cell creatures you and I can't see.

工业医学和生命本身的定义，都在被你我看不见的单胞生所改变。