Just like we don't feel comfortable saying that the-- I suppose we could do this with a fruit fly.

就像我们不喜欢说-,我用果蝇来举个例子。

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This can be taken to extremes and the biggest extreme is the case of actors, which is if there's ever a case-- Anybody know who this is, the actor?

这个理论最极端的例子,就发生在演员身上，如果要举个例子…,大家知道这个演员是谁吗？

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A section of DNA that is responsible for encoding a gene, let's say it's the insulin gene for example, might be some stretch of DNA on a certain chromosome inside your cells, inside the cells of the pancreas.

一段编码蛋白的DNA序列,我们就拿编码胰岛素的基因来举个例子,它也许是一段DNA基因序列,位于你胰腺细胞里的,某条染色体上

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And you could interfere with a translation by degrading messenger RNA, for example. If you had a way to specifically chew up all the RNA molecules that are responsible for making a particular protein, you could stop it from being expressed even though your cell is trying to make it.

而你就可以通过,降解其mRNA来进行干扰,再举个例子,如果你能把表达特定蛋白的RNA,统统揪出来捣毁的话,你也能阻止这段基因表达,哪怕是你的细胞在努力表达这段基因

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