Like many cells in neurons, the shape of the cell is intimately related to its function within the organism.

同许多种神经细胞一样,这个细胞的形状和,它们在生物体中执行的功能紧密相关

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They don't look the same, they don't behave the same, they don't perform the same biological functions.

它们外观上不一样,生命活动不一样,它们的生物学功能各不相同

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You took biology in high school, you learned the names of these organelles and their principle functions, the nucleus, the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, lysosomes.

你们高中学过生物,学过这些细胞器的名称,和基本功能,细胞核,内质网,高尔基体,线粒体,溶酶体

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Every cell in your body is only using a fraction of the DNA that's available to it.

每个细胞只用到了,决定该细胞生物功能的DNA片段

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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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