House cats still have a lot in common with their wild relatives.

家猫和它们的野生亲戚仍然有很多共同点。

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Their wild relatives, wolves, are long-distance hunters, tracking prey for miles.

它们在野外的亲戚——狼是长距离猎手，会长达数英里地追踪猎物。

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The researchers point out that gene flow between crops and their wild relatives is common and difficult to contain.

科学家指出，作物和其野生亲属之间的基因流动相似，难以控制。

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The researchers point out that gene flow between crops and their wild relatives is common and difficult to contain.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

One of the first advancements researchers are working on is scanning tens of thousands of different soybean varieties, including wild relatives, to look for useful traits.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

The turkey is the centrepiece of the US Thanksgiving tradition, though the specimens we eat today are a far cry from their hunted wild relatives, reminiscent of the birds early settlers would have found and Native Americans hunted.

BBC: Shooting a Thanksgiving dinner

Such sterile fields will offer little or no food or shelter to wildlife, and there is already evidence that the genes for herbicide resistance can spread to wild relatives of crop plants, leaving us with weeds resistant to weedkiller.

BBC: Prince Charles speaks out against GM food

Many of the domesticated foxes hardly resembled their wild-type relatives at all, in both appearance and behavior even though they were genetically identical.

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