科学家们发现只需向动物胚胎中注射另一物种的干细胞,他们便能创造出一种拥有另一物种器官的嵌合体动物。
Scientists have found they can create chimeric animals that have organs belonging to another species by injecting stem cells into the embryo of another species.
由两个物种的细胞混合而诞生的动物,其科学术语唤作嵌合体。
The scientific term for an animal with mingled cells from two species is chimera.
发生此类现象是因为一个嵌合双胞胎会产生于没有得到雄性动物施精的卵, 但它会在某些皮肤细胞中含有该雄性动物的遗传基因.
This couldhappen because a chimeric twin that grew from an egg which his sperm did notfertilise would nonetheless have some skin cells containing his genes.
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