most chemical and biological systems aren't that simple precisely because you have to worry about many particles and their statistics and the way they might order or disorder.

大多数化学或者生物系统并不是这么简单,因为你必须担心大量的粒子,和他们的统计特性以及它们有序,和无序的情况。

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So, this is just one example of how these properties can already, even our understanding just talking about single atoms, can already make an impact in these biological systems.

这只是一个例子，通过它我们可以看到，尽管我们仅仅讲到了单个原子，但我们现在已经可以用它的性质来理解一些生物系统。

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