He reasoned that some single-celled creatures are known to enter a hibernation-like state and survive for years with no air or food.
他推断，已知的一些单细胞生物进入类似冬眠的状态，在没有空气和食物的情况下存活数年。
The fossils buried in Pleistocene and earlier ocean sediments were of foraminifera—small, single-celled marine organisms that secrete shells of calcium carbonate, or calcite.
在更新世和更早的海洋沉积物中埋藏的化石生物属于孔虫类生物，它们是微小的单细胞海洋生物，其分泌的硬壳由碳酸钙和方解石组成。
The ancestors of plants were photosynthetic single-celled organisms that gave rise to plants presumably lacked true roots, stems, leaves, and complex reproductive structures such as flowers.
植物的祖先是进行光合作用的单细胞生物，由此产生的植物可能缺乏真正的根、茎、叶和复杂的生殖结构，如花朵。
Malaria is caused by a one-celled parasite called a Plasmodium.
疟疾是由称为疟原虫的一种单细胞寄生虫造成的。
Single-celled organisms emerged from the primordial soup about 3.4 billion years ago.
单细胞生物大约出现于34亿年前的“原始汤”（primordial soup）。
But they don't beat single-celled organisms that emerged about 3.4 billion years ago.
但是没有34亿年前出现的单细胞生物的历史久。
Some phytoplankton are bacteria, some are protists, and most are single-celled plants.
有些浮游植物是细菌，有些是原生生物，而大多数则是单细胞植物。
VIEWED from humanity's lofty heights, single-celled creatures are the scum of the earth.
从人类的高度来看，单细胞生物是地球上的浮渣。
The futuristic sports car is a hydrogen-powered, zero emission, fuel-celled supercar.
这部未来风格的跑车是一部氢动力零排放燃料电池超级汽车。
The other challenge, besides the minimal genome, is to repeat the trick with single-celled algae.
除了最小基因组外的另一个挑战是，将戏法在单细胞藻类上重演。
This way, the single-celled cleaning crew can destroy the salt layer with no moisture penetrating the murals.
这样，这些单层细胞清洁队员可以在不使水汽进入油画的前提下除去盐层。
The one-celled embryos, created at the University of Newcastle, were destroyed within days, as required by law.
在英国纽卡斯尔大学培育出来的这些单细胞胚胎，在数天内就被依法销毁。
Scientists are also discovering that our nervous system shares an even deeper homology with single-celled organisms.
科学家们甚至还发现我们的神经系统和单细胞生物有着更为深层次的同源性。
While they spend part of their life as ordinary single-celled creatures, they sometimes grow into truly alien forms.
虽然在生命的一段时间里只是普普通通的单细胞生物，有些时候却可以长成真正的外星形式。
In the 1970s, Todd Hennessey claimed that paramecia, the single-celled pond dweller, could be conditioned in the lab.
20世纪70年代，托德·亨尼西(ToddHennessey)声称，单细胞池塘居民草履虫，可以达到实验室要求的条件。
That's something we humans have trouble enough with, let alone a single-celled organism without a neuron to call its own.
这对我们人类是够麻烦的，让一个没有神经的单细胞生物拥有自己的意愿。
The single-celled photosynthetic organisms produce much of the oxygen on earth and are the base of the marine food chain.
地球上多数的氧气都是这些单细胞光合作用的生命制造的，他们还是海洋食物链的基础。
There was thought to be one exception, however, in the form of Giardia, a single-celled parasite with a nasty effect on people.
曾经一度认为有一个例外，是一种叫Giardia的单细胞寄生生物，常引起人体患鞭毛虫病。
"Pain is probably the earliest most primitive experience around, going all the way back to single celled organisms," he says.
“疼痛可能是最早的也是最原始的体验，回归到最简单的我们称之为有机体的东西，”他说到。
Should we not have matured beyond that after four billion years of slow evolution from simple-celled prokaryotes to homo sapiens?
我们经过了40亿年从简单的单细胞慢慢进化成高级的现代智能人类，难道我们仍然无法超越被物质摆布的漩涡？
Scientists have known for some time that life exists at such depths, but they thought it mostly consisted of single-celled organisms.
科学家们早已知道在这一深度存在有生命，但他们认为存在的主要是单细胞生物。
FOR its supporters, the idea of growing single-celled algae on exhaust gas piped from power stations is the ultimate in recycling.
对于其支持者来说，在发电厂的废气排放管道上种植单细胞藻类是再循环的根本途径。
The single-celled diatoms below—the likes of which are found in oceans worldwide—were collected with a plankton net in San Francisco Bay.
上图就是旧金山海湾的一个浮游生物网内聚集的单细胞植物硅藻——这种藻类在世界各大海洋都广泛分布。
The explanation for this must lie in the biochemical maturity of eight-celled embryos compared with their junior, four-cell siblings.
对于这一现象只能解释为，在生化意义上发育至八个细胞的胚胎比只有4个细胞的初级胚胎要成熟。
After all, he reasoned, some single-celled creatures are known to enter a hibernation-like state and survive for years with no air or food.
毕竟，他推断，众所周知一些单细胞生物可以进入一种类似冬眠的状态，并在没有空气和水的状态下生存数年。
At the very base are bacteria, which support phytoplankton and cytoplankton, which support single-celled animals, which support fly larvae.
塘中最基本的生物是细菌，它供养了浮游植物和cytoplankton，浮游植物和cytoplankton供养了单细胞动物，单细胞动物又供养了蝇幼虫。
This single-celled fungus feeds on sugars and reproduces frequently—if it has enough to eat, a culture can double in population in 90 minutes.
这种单细胞生物吃糖，而且繁殖迅速——如果有足够的食料，他们的种群数量可以每九十分钟增加一倍。
He does not plan to stick to bacteria, though. The other challenge, besides the minimal genome, is to repeat the trick with single-celled algae.
虽然如此，他也没打算坚持用细菌。除了最小基因组外的另一个挑战是，将戏法在单细胞藻类上重演。
He does not plan to stick to bacteria, though. The other challenge, besides the minimal genome, is to repeat the trick with single-celled algae.
虽然如此，他也没打算坚持用细菌。除了最小基因组外的另一个挑战是，将戏法在单细胞藻类上重演。
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