A person,after all,is just a body that's functioning in the right way so as to do these person tricks.

一个人说到底就是肉体的功能,用合适的方式发挥出来。

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It's harder to find, they're more limited numbers, and in general, more difficult until eventually down this pathway you have fully differentiated cells, cells that are fully mature and performing the function of the mature organ.

不过找起来更困难,因为它们数量稀少而且通常很难定位,在分化的终末阶段,你可以看到完全分化的细胞,这些细胞完全成熟,在成熟的器官中发挥功能

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All of your cells have the same DNA, so the same genetic information, and yet cells in your brain, and cells in your heart, and cells in your kidney do very different things.

你所有的细胞都有相同的DNA,带有相同的遗传信息,尽管你大脑里的细胞,心脏上的细胞,肾里的细胞发挥着不同的功能

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Reverse transcriptase is a naturally occurring protein, it has a biological function in HIV, but we can use it for a technical logical function here by going backwards on the biological path from messenger RNA to DNA.

反转录酶是在自然环境中存在的蛋白质,它在HIV中发挥着生物功能,但在这里它可以发挥一个技术功能,让它用信使RNA反转录出DNA

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