At first she thought the barely-there stems were worm eggs, however, the next day she discovered that the stems had grown 18 white tiny flowers on top and smelled "fragrant".

起先她以为那些茎条只不过是虫子的卵，可是第二天她发现茎条顶上开出了18朵白色的小花，闻起来“很香”。

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He tested his idea in a tiny nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans and, in 1994, published a paper showing how touch-receptor proteins are distributed around this worm.

他于1994年在一种称为秀丽隠杆线虫的小型线虫中试验了这一想法，标示出接触受体是如何在整个虫体中分布的，并据此发表了一篇文章。

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The researchers also are developing protein-network maps for other organisms, including a yeast cell and Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny worm with some 19, 000 genes, about the same number as humans.

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He tested his idea in a tiny nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans and, in 1994, published a paper showing how touch-receptor proteins are distributed around this worm.

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From what I understood, there is a species in Halo known as the Hunters which are made up of thousands of tiny, orange worm-like creatures.

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