The researchers believe this gene influences development of a hormone that tells an organism how fat or full it is.

研究人员认为，该基因会影响一种激素的发育，该激素会识别生物体脂肪或其饱满程度。

We don't expect it to be the most exciting organism at the zoo because after all it's not really a " fungi" and watching it tends to get " mold" after a while.

我们不期望它是动物园里最令人兴奋的生物体，因为毕竟它不属于真正的" 真菌" ，一段时间后你会发现它会慢慢霉化。

Are we more than the sum of our biology?

我们不是单单的生物体征综合吧？

In fact, we engineered the first base editor, shown here, from three separate proteins that don't even come from the same organism.

事实上，我们设计了第一个碱基编辑器，如图所示，它由三种甚至不来自同一生物体的独立蛋白质组成。

Bioluminescence, when living organisms produce light, is a form of what?

当生物体发光时，“生物光”是以一种什么样的形式？

CRISPR-Cas9 combines a protein that can neatly snip DNA with a molecule that guides those molecular shears to a specific spot in an organism's genome.

CRISPR-Cas9利用某种蛋白质整齐地剪断DNA和一种分子，这种分子可以引导其结合到生物体基因组的置。

" When you take that purified enzyme and add it back to a bacteria, for example, in an infection, it will drill a hole in the cell wall, the membrane externalizes like would normally do explode and kill the organism instantly" .

当你把纯化后的酶重新添加到细菌中，比如在感染中，它会在细胞壁上钻一个洞，细胞膜外化，就像爆炸一样立刻杀死生物体。

It was a complex biology built from countless ancestors that had come before.

这是一个复杂的生物体，由之前无数的祖先构建而成。

And it's not just about saving the world's largest organism for its own sake.

这不仅仅是为了拯救世界上最大的生物体本身。

But cancer, in many creatures, is a potent adversary.

但在许多生物体中，癌症是一个强劲的对手。

Biologists know of two ways co-operation between organisms can evolve.

生物学家知道生物体之间有两种合作可以进化。

Information about living things is stored in DNA using four different kinds of molecules.

生物体信息通过四种不同分子存储在DNA中。

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

细菌是单细胞的活生物体，可以独立存在并执行生命功能。

The answer has to do with the way different organisms make people sick.

答案与不同的生物体使人生病的途径有关。

But with termites gone, other organisms picked up the slack.

但白蚁消失后，其它生物体会填补它们的空缺。

Hormesis is essentially the concept of a " good stress" — that is, " the dose makes the poison, " or " what harms me in the right way and not too much makes me stronger."

毒物兴奋效应即高剂量致毒因素对生物体有害，而低剂量致毒因素对生物体有益。

First, though, it's important to understand that corals aren't really a single organism.

但首先，重要的是要了解珊瑚并不是单一生物体。

But why is the water in living things so important?

但为什么生物体内的水如此重要?

When cells divide by mitosis, the number of cells increases, and hence the organism grows.

当细胞通过有丝分裂分裂时，细胞数量增加，因此生物体生长。

And that's the real problem with the organisms that cause resistance.

这是引起耐药性的生物体的真正问题。