Venus flytraps, for example, share an ancestor with Portuguese sundews, which only catch prey passively, via "flypaper" glands on their stems.

例如，维纳斯捕蝇草和葡萄牙茅膏菜有共同的祖先，后者只通过茎上的“捕蝇纸”腺体被动地捕捉猎物。

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They interfere with our hormones, and they interfere with the endocrine system, which is the network of glands that orchestrate growth and development.

它们干扰我们的激素，干扰内分泌系统，而内分泌系统是由各种腺体组成的协调成长和发育的网络。

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Spiders have seven different silk glands that can produce silk with different properties.

蜘蛛有7个不同的丝腺，可以吐出拥有不同特点的蛛丝。

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By injecting the orb weaver gene into the father of Mille and Muscade, Nexia bred she-goats with mammary glands able to produce the complex proteins that make up spider silk.

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