眼睛的颜色显示的不只是你基因的遗传特征。
首先，大多数行为是由不止一个基因控制的，而且直到最近遗传学家还没有方法来识别其涉及的多个基因。
In the first place, most behaviors are governed by more than one gene, and until recently geneticists had no method for identifying the multiple genes involved.
遗传科学的核心是一个高见：基因序列中可识别的变异可以预测一个人学习、推理和解决问题的能力。
Central to hereditarian science is a tall claim: that identifiable variations in genetic sequences can predict an individual's aptness to learn, reason and solve problems.
因为好斗的个体更有可能生存和繁殖，所以任何与好斗行为相关的基因都更有可能遗传给后代。
Because aggressive individuals are more likely to survive and reproduce, whatever genes are linked to aggressive behavior are more likely to be transmitted to subsequent generations.
今天，人们仍然研究星星或基因、占星术或遗传学，希望找到超常的能力或个人特征的来源。
Today, people still look to stars or genes, astrology or genetics, in the hope of finding the source of exceptional abilities or personal characteristics.
近年来，遗传学研究提供了新的线索，包括现代美洲土著民基因标记的分布。
In recent years, new clues have come from research into genetics, including the distribution of genetic markers in modern Native Americans.
它们别无选择，因为这种分配方式是从部分父母的基因中遗传下来的。
No choice is involved; this allocation comes as part of the genetic package from the parents.
研究表观遗传学的一个方法是通过揭示环境直接影响基因的机制来彻底改变我们对生物学的理解。
One way the study of epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of biology is by revealing a mechanism by which the environment directly impacts on genes.
遗传学的一场革命将这一问题定位为一个有关我们社会特征的现代政治问题：如果性格与我们的基因紧密相连，那么政府能做些什么来帮助我们呢？
A revolution in genetics has poised this as a modern political question about the character of our society: if personalities are hard-wired into our genes, what can governments do to help us?
这些反应影响着我们的遗传密码的表现方式：每个基因是如何被加强或削弱，甚至其作用机制是如何被打开或关闭，从而构成我们的骨骼、大脑以及身体的其他部位的。
These reactions influence how our genetic code is expressed: how each gene is strengthened or weakened, even turned on or off, to build our bones, brains and all the other parts of our bodies.
广义上讲，性状遗传性衡量的是群体成员间的差异在多大程度上可以用基因差异解释。
In broad terms, the heritability of a trait measures the extent to which differences among members of a population can be explained by differences in their genetics.
例如，因为突变的基因可以提高铁的吸收效率，所以遗传性血色素沉着病突变可以保护带菌者不缺铁。
For example, the hereditary hemochromatosis mutation protects carriers from iron-deficiency because the mutated gene allows increased efficiency of iron absorption.
氟烷基因的遗传与孟德尔的分离定律是一致的。
The inheritance of the halothane gene was shown to be in agreement with Mendel's law of segregation.
ALAS2基因的可遗传突变是人类X连锁铁粒幼细胞性贫血的原因。
Heritable mutations of ALAS2 gene are responsible for the human X-linked sideroblastic anemia.
科学家们还没有详细研究在研究中涉及的基因；研究中使用的芯片的遗传标记与这些基因相近，但不是基因本身。
Scientists haven't yet looked in detail at the genes implicated in the research; the microarrays used in these studies spotted genetic markers near genes, not the genes themselves.
母亲的年龄越大，生出的小孩的遗传病的机率越高，而基因与孤僻症息息相关。
Older mothers are known to face increased risks for having children with genetic disorders, and genes are thought to play a role in autism.
有时，那是因为在新的人群中，人们其他的基因作用下的遗传背景掩盖了基因A对抑郁的效应。
Sometimes it is because in the new population, the genetic background for their other genes masks the effect of gene a on depression.
它们的遗传信息已经被研究了将近一个世纪，其中包括关于睡眠的遗传信息。许多影响人类睡眠的基因与控制果蝇睡眠的基因相似。
Their genetics—including the genetics of sleep—have been studied for almost a century, and many of the genes that play a role in human sleep resemble those that control sleep in fruit flies.
即使环境或是遗传基因的影响很强大的时候，他们也控制不了我们。
While environmental or genetic influences may be very powerful, they do not control us.
我的观点是，真正的遗传天赋在于基因组本身的设计——我们的身体和我们的思想被简约地设计以对环境的要求作出反应。
But from my vantage point, the true genetic gift is the design of the genome itself - our bodies and our minds are simply designed to respond to environmental demands.
这类电路的一个潜在的强大应用是：用于遗传网络建模——基因和蛋白质的交互作用控制着细胞的功能和命运。
One potentially powerful application of such circuits is in modeling genetic network — the interplay of genes and proteins that controls a cell's function and fate.
然后他和研究人员检测患病基因的遗传信息，之后再萃取该基因的遗传物质。
He and his colleagues infected rats with the disease and then extracted genetic material from them.
该系统为科研机构、农民和私营部门的植物育种者提供了利用那些保存在基因库甚至生长在田间的遗传材料的机会。
The System gives scientific institutions, farmers, and private sector plant breeders the opportunity to work with the materials stored in gene Banks or even crops growing in fields.
一些孩子还是血脉相连的，因为他们的膝盖骨上都有一种先天性的骨质缺损，这种遗传基因是非常罕见的。
Some of the babies were related as they showed a congenital bone defect on their knee bones, which is a very rare gene.
和其他有机体一样，人类通过人类性征的载体(基因)将自身的性征遗传给他们的下一代。
Humans, like other organisms, pass certain characteristics of themselves to the next generation through their genes, the special carriers of human traits.
模因一经增殖，物种的个体就能受益于对最近的、最成功的同类行为的仿效，并且会把有助于这种仿效的基因遗传下去。
Once memes were proliferating, individuals benefited from copying the latest and most successful ones, and then passed on any genes that helped them do so.
鼠类专家研究证明，这一现象是由沙鼠的遗传基因决定的，是沙鼠出于本能的担心。
Researches conducted by experts on rodents indicate that their instinct anxiety contributes to that, which is determined by the genes of gerbils.
以前找到的很多都是能够导致人肥胖的基因，而“瘦身”基因是首例发现的可以让人变得异常苗条的遗传因子。
While many genes have been identified as leading to obesity, this is the first time a genetic explanation for 'extreme thinness' has been unveiled.
以前找到的很多都是能够导致人肥胖的基因，而“瘦身”基因是首例发现的可以让人变得异常苗条的遗传因子。
While many genes have been identified as leading to obesity, this is the first time a genetic explanation for 'extreme thinness' has been unveiled.
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