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.
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.
你知道，一个人所有的遗传信息都包含在一个叫做染色体的长DNA片段上。
You know that all of a person's genetic information is contained on very long pieces of DNA called Chromosomes.
基因组解密项目企图对遗传密码关于个人健康所能揭示的问题与否作出解释。
The Genome Unzipped project intends to explain what genetic code can and cannot reveal about an individual's health.
它能够帮助孩子理解到，遗传、成长状态、年龄、饮食、锻炼、姿势等等因素，都影响着一个人身体的外观和功能。
It's helpful for children to understand that heredity, state of development, age, diet, exercise, posture, and other factors all affect how people's bodies look and function.
这意味着你个人或家庭成员的乳腺癌并没有任何遗传上规律。
This means your personal or family history of breast cancer doesn't follow any regular pattern of inheritance.
例如，获得一个人的遗传密码能够帮助医生创造定制化药物和确定一个个体对某种疾病或身体状况的倾向。
For instance, having access to a person's genetic code could help doctors create customized medicine and determine an individual's predisposition to certain diseases or medical conditions.
至于说它是一件好事，在相关个人或来自小族群人们的孩子中潜在的遗传疾病告诉我们，近亲繁殖通常不是好主意。
As for it being a good thing, the potential for inherited disease in children of related individuals, or people from small communities, tells us that inbreeding is generally not a great idea.
自恋应该有单独分类，她说，因为像大多数精神疾病，自恋型人格障碍部分是由遗传部分是由个人环境造成。
Narcissism deserves its own category, she said, because like most mental ailments, narcissistic personality disorder is partially genetic and partially created by one's environment.
五个人中就有一个遗传了这种基因，可以让人在不失去思维敏捷度的情况下延长寿命。
One in five of us is dealt this genetic hand that promises to extend our lives without the loss of mental agility.
一个人，或一种生物，会做一些无私的事情，只要可以为它保存自身的遗传物质，比如那些存在在几个亲兄弟或者堂兄弟之间的。
A person or creature will do something selfless if the act still saves enough of its own genetic material - say, the amount carried in a couple of brothers or a half-dozen Cousins.
人们在意外貌，而一个人的种族、遗传因子影响着他的外表。
People care about looks, and one's race and genetic lineage affect one's looks.
一般情况下，增胖还和个人的生活习惯以及遗传因素有关。
Instead, the weight gain is usually related to a variety of lifestyle and genetic factors.
调查发现，大多数美国人，其中包括那些认为自己超重的人，都认为个人行为习惯而非遗传或其他因素是造成超重的最主要原因。
The survey finds that most Americans, including those who say they are overweight, agree that personal behavior — rather than genetic disposition or marketing by food companies — is the main reason.
大约每五百个美国人中就有一个人的这个结构有遗传缺陷，这就是为什么他们的LDL胆固醇含量会达到这样一个天文数字。
About one in 500 Americans is genetically deficient in these structures, called LDL receptors, and, as a result, develops astronomically high levels of LDL cholesterol.
同时它也不决定个人意志力，即便意志力和遗传有关，也是由其他基因的控制。
That is either a matter of free will or, if it is genetic, is controlled by genes somewhere else.
他强调道，任何一个人的健康水平取决于多方面因素的影响，包括遗传、锻炼习惯、身体成分及整体健康状况。
He stressed that any one person's fitness levels depend on a complex mix of factors, including genetics, exercise habits, body composition and overall health.
我觉得个性是遗传的，个性从小就摆在那儿，因为它是基因的洗牌——也许还有环境的因素——但就个人而言，我就是个父母基因的混合体。
Personal temperament is genetic. It's there from when you are a child because it's your shuffle of genes - maybe environment draws it out a bit - but I'm just an amalgam of the genes of my parents.
可事实上，一个人的新陈代谢和肠道菌群的组成可以反映出各种信息，包括生活方式和遗传基因。
However, your metabolism and the makeup of your gut bacteria reflect all sorts of things, including your lifestyle and your genes.
我觉得个性是遗传的，个性从小就摆在那儿，因为它是基因的洗牌——也许还有环境的因素——但就个人而言，我就是个父母基因的混合体。
It's there from when you are a child because it's your shuffle of genes - maybe environment draws it out a bit - but I'm just an amalgam of the genes of my parents.
某个地方在有患阿尔茨海默氏症可能的整个人群中差不多有70％出之于遗传。
Somewhere in the ballpark of 70% of risk for Alzheimer's disease across a population is due to heredity.
罕见病在不同的人群中的流行性差异很大，某种疾病在一个人群中很罕见，在另一个人群中可能就很常见了，这就是流行性疾病和遗传性疾病之间的差异所在。
Rare diseases can vary in prevalence between populations, so a disease that is rare in some populations may be common in others. This is especially true of genetic diseases and infectious diseases.
没有关于一个人类被迫保持不睡的时间久到死亡的记录，但是有一种叫做致命性家族失眠症的遗传病似乎表明人类无睡眠时间是有极限的。
There are no records of a human having been intentionally kept awake long enough to kill them, but a hereditary disease called fatal familial insomnia suggests there is an ultimate limit.
很多人可能难以接受这种说法：几乎每一个人，不管其遗传基础如何，在适当的环境下都可能上瘾。
And that's a notion many find hard to believe: Just about anyone, regardless of baseline genetic risk, can become an addict under the right circumstances.
很多人可能难以接受这种说法：几乎每一个人，不管其遗传基础如何，在适当的环境下都可能上瘾。
And that's a notion many find hard to believe: Just about anyone, regardless of baseline genetic risk, can become an addict under the right circumstances.
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