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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often a biologist can discriminate between different kinds of cells that they see in section of a tissue for example, merely by its shape and the characteristics that it has.

生物学家经常可以在组织切片上,仅凭所看见的细胞形状来区分不同细胞,如果举例来说的话,仅通过细胞的形状和特性就足够

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If I looked within the skin, one of the lower layers of your skin, the connective tissue layer, you'd find many fibroblasts there and they're just waiting in a more rounded shape than this, just waiting to do their job.

如果观察皮肤,更深处的一层细胞,结缔组织层,就能看到许多成纤维细胞,它们平时形状接近圆形,时刻准备着去完成自己的任务

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