The next step, he says, is to make HEG break up not the fluorescent protein gene but one that is crucial for malaria transmission.

他说，下一步是制造一个不在荧光蛋白基因位置断裂而是对疟原虫传播起关键作用的基因。

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Gene resides within long strands of DNA which in turn make up the chromosomes.

基因存在于dna长链上，而dna的排序构成了染色体。

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They looked for tiny differences between people in the series of chemical building blocks that make up each gene.

他们在寻找人与人之间化学标准组件串联的微小的差别，而正是这些化学标准组件串联起来构成每一个基因。

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Working independently, these three men provided the parts that, when put together, enable the elimination of one gene at a time from the genetic make-up of a mouse.

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But he said that the reasons for humans becoming addicted to any drug were more complex than simply their genetic make-up, and that a test for any gene uncovered by further research would not necessarily work.

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The genome project, which the government began in 1987, aimed to speed the gene-hunting effort by providing the first full map of all 3 billion base pairs that make up human DNA. (It was not necessary, in this effort, to run through all the pairs on each set of chromosomes, or 6 billion pairs.) And because the base pairs come in only four varieties, they are digital and ideal for computer decoding.

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