Again, these plasmids occur naturally in nature; they were discovered particularly in micro-organisms have plasmids that confer biological properties onto them.

此外,质粒存在于自然界中,质粒是在微生物中发现的,它们也赋予了微生物一些生物学特性

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Now most diabetics take human insulin made, not in humans, but made in micro-organisms that are growing in a manufacturing facility.

而现在,多数糖尿病患者用人的胰岛素,不是来自人体,而是来自工厂的微生物车间

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Antibiotics are chemicals, usually small organic molecules that will kill micro-organisms like bacteria.

抗生素是一类化学物质,它们通常是小分子有机物,能够杀死细菌这样的微生物

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if you do that under the situation where you've put your plasmid into these micro-organisms then you're going to have little colonies that grow many copies of the bacterial cells.

如果你在质粒已经进入了微生物,的情况下培养它们,你就会得到许多小菌落,里面长有很多增殖出来的细菌

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The promoter in this case is called the lac promoter and normally in micro-organisms that lac promoter is used to produce a gene called lacZ which makes a protein called beta-galactosidase.

在这个例子中的启动子称作lac启动子,通常在微生物中,lac启动子是用来生成,一段叫lacZ的基因,这段基因,能制造一种蛋白叫β-半乳糖苷酶

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