Nutrition is considered the process, the behavioral process by which people require--acquire nutrients, and use them to promote vital activities.

营养作用就是营养的供给和摄取,也就是人们摄取营养,并将其转化为生命力的行为过程

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This same thing happens here, there's a transduction, one kind of a signal gets converted to another kind of a signal.

这两种过程是相同的,都是一个信号转换的过程,一种信号转化为另一种信号

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This conversion from a mechanical energy into a chemical energy can be nicely visualized when one fills a hair cell with a sensitive die that responds to the calcium ions that influx into the cell.

如果在毛细胞中注入,对钙离子敏感的物质,可以精确地模拟,这一机械能到化学能的转化过程。

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It turns out when you give Aldopa to people, it gets converted biochemically into natural dopamine which then serves as its own agonist.

已经证明如果向人体中引入阿多巴,它就能通过生化过程转化为多巴胺,发挥激动剂作用

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We're used to thinking about sound being tranduced; being converted by acoustic waves into electrical signals that can be recognized by your iPods.

我们想想声音信号的转换过程,声音由声波转化为电子信号,你的iPod能够识别这种信号

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It gets produced in response to a signal so there's a binding of a ligand to a receptor, the enzyme that does this conversion is activated and more cycle AMP is released.

这类分子的产生是对信号做出的一种反应,当配体和受体结合时,催化这种转化过程的酶被激活,更多的cAMP释放出来

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