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

很久以前，地球的海洋里满是细胞的紫色物，叫做古菌。

Bacteria are single-celled, living organisms that can exist and perform life functions on their own.

细菌是细胞的活物体，可以独立存在并执行命功能。

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

与此同时，细胞物的总体蓝图在 30 亿年中几乎没有变化。

Dinoflagellates are one of the biggest single-celled organisms known to man.

甲藻是人类已知的最大的细胞物之一。

Wherever they exist, these single-celled creatures illuminate anything that moves, like these bow-riding dolphins.

无论它们在哪里， 细胞物都任何移动的物体，比如骑弓的海豚。

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细胞物。

Bacteria are single-celled organisms that live nearly everywhere on Earth.

细菌是细胞物，地球上几乎所有地方都有细菌。

It is discovered 190,000 different species of various bacteria and single-celled plants and creatures.

该项目发现19万多种细菌、细胞植物和物。

What would a one-celled organism have to be embarrassed about?

细胞物有什么需要感到羞耻的事啊？

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

想象一下，你是那更复杂的细胞物之一，你饿了。

Archaea are a group of single-celled microbes similar to bacteria but different to all other known types.

古菌是指细胞微物，类似于细菌，但是不同于已知的细菌类型。

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的细胞物的出现开始。

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

像细菌或其他细胞物样的微小物通过精确复制自己来进行繁殖。

And a good fraction are what Macalady calls " genetic dark matter" -- the single-celled unknown.

其中有很大一部分是马卡拉帝所说的“基因暗物质”--未知的细胞物。

This was the first-ever citing of single-celled organisms so no wonder the Royal Society didn't trust him.

是人类有史以来首次提及细胞物，难怪英国皇家学不信任他。

We can trace its odoriferous origins back to the single-celled organisms who sampled Earth's most primordial perfumes.

我们可以追溯到它的气味起源于细胞物谁取样地球上最原始的香水。

What is the collective name for single-celled, microscopic organisms that live in the soil, water and animals?

活在土壤、水和动物中的细胞微物的名称是什么？

We find secreted chemical messengers in everything from single-celled organisms, to plants, to you, and your dog.

我们在从细胞物到植物，再到你和你的狗的一切事物中都发现了分泌的化学信使。

I'm studying one-celled organisms to try and find the neurochemicals that lead to the feeling of shame.

我在研究细胞物，试图从它们身上找到引发羞愧感的神经化学物质。

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一种迷人的细胞微物，并在实验室分离并培育出了它。