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，故事伴随着第简单的单胞生物的出现开始。

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

很久前，地球的海洋里满单胞的紫色生物，叫做古生菌。

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

念珠菌真菌，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物有相似的单胞类祖先。

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

所更大的单胞无法获取足够的东西来养活它所有的体积。

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

想象下，你那些更复杂的单胞生物之，你饿了。

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

与此同时，单胞生物的总体蓝图在 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海胆中发现了名为纤毛虫的单胞生物。

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

从最最原初的那单胞开始，到现在观看这视频的你。

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

这因为它们从最简单的单胞生物进化而来的，独立于我们这样的动物。

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

像菌或其他单胞生物这样的微小生物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.

但这些植物没有子，而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，把我们的单胞生物带到了主导形式——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海岸附近的沉积物中发现了迷人的单胞微生物，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，称为原核生物的单胞微生物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物、植物，甚至其他动物都可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物所改变。